General health related concerns, ideas, for those 50+

If you love 'self', which really means you love 'life', you'll temper any bad habits you have that may effect your health

Loving self is basically loving 'life'.

It's easy for us to recognize abuse when it's occurring to another, like a animal, or another human, but we often fail to realize when we're abusing ourselves...you ask how?

1. Substance abuse as in alcohol, drugs, both legal and illegal, tobacco and so forth.

As we age, our bodies can't handle any of the above like it could when 19 or 23, I mean our bodies have a hard enough time just keeping immune system up and running once above the age of 50, let alone dealing with alcohol consumption or prescription drugs or tobacco and so forth, if you love 'life' you'll stop abusing your body.

2. Bad diet, as in greasy foods, sugary foods, soft drinks, potato chips, not so much the chips but all the additives, learn to make your own chips with air cooker...to much meat, not enough exercise and so forth.

So many of us abuse our bodies, our own bodies, and don't see nothing wrong with it, and I'm guilty of that also is why writing this I suppose.
We don't like it when our pets eat bad food, or when others do, yet we often do...if love life, stop abusing self with bad unhealthy food, that applies to myself as well, although food really isn't my issue.

3. Bad work environment or job, this to can effect health, if job bad for your health, quit, it's that simple and find job you're better suited for.

None of this waking up at 4 am in the morning BS.
Is why I'm still as healthy as I am cause I saw the writing on the way and saw that all these labor or blue collar jobs do is wear your body down and you never get a good return, cause not like the olden days when everyone had pensions, now days when done, you're just done, still as poor as was 20 years earlier only now less healthy, so I said 'enough' and no only work 3 days a week, long days sure, but 4 days off to recover, that will give me longevity.
And by doing that, believe it or not I actually save more money than when use to work 5-6 days a week, cause the less one works, the less one spends on fuel, food, and just misc spending..

And I could go on and on, just saying, we need to stop the self abuse, if we love 'life', any life, including our own.

Seeing public officials wearing masks in the news media, it just looks so ignorant to me, doesn't inspire me to want to wear one or anything, cause to me it just looks ignorant and 'staged', and condescending if anything, like every one is dumb, and that by seeing public officials wear mask will some how make public care more about their own health..

Seems every thing in the media is just 'staged' now days, as if we're all to dumb to take care of our own health, or want to.

I think 'fat' is what makes your face sag, if not fat, there's nothing to sag

I mean what else can I add to that?

Fat sags, the less fat on your face, the less there is to sag..

When people younger than you start passing away

When people younger than you start passing away, as you age, it can make you think, especially if had close or even lose relations with such types.

As we age, it's just usually assumed that those who pass away or get ill, will be older than yourself, but when you reach age 50 +, that's not always the case, many times, whether celebrities, random news stories, or even family members, or friends, co-workers, many times, it's those younger than you who either fall terminally ill or pass away for a variety of reasons.

I have one distant associate who now needs a liver transplant cause they drank to hard during the covid lockdown, and I guess their not alone, for I heard many are needing liver transplants now do to hard drinking under the covid lock downs

www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-05-14/is-rise-in-liver-damage-tied-to-more-drinking-during-lockdowns

There are more concise studies than the one linked, but still, you can see the connection.

I guess many people just drank harder than usual under the lock down?

I drank about the same, no more, no less, probably cause continued to work as if there was no covid.

I still drink, but lessoning up, not just cause older, but cause there's really nothing to drink hard and party about anymore.

When I drink, I pretty much always drink alone and get worked up into own internal artistic moods that effect no one but me, other than the art I may produce and then share when done.

But even now, that may be to much, I mean if I'm seeing people who are younger than me, if I'm seeing their organs fail, what about my own health?

I've been fortunate so far, but realize I can't keep pushing it.

My body needs a break from alcohol, it really does, I can tell.

And as of now I'm ready to give it that break, and hopefully more than just a few days.

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I drank last night when got off work, and just didn't feel right, all day long, not in the sense of illness, but more as in mood.
Not happiness, not joy, just 'nothingness', bland.

I think I need to chart a new health course for self, I mean I already eat as healthy as a average person can who's not a training athlete, but it's the alcohol I need to cut out, the beer, and that won't be easy, cause often I feel that's all I have to boost my mood.

I think good health will boost my mood if I give good health a try.

I mean I just don't get it, I think I eat pretty light, for my height and age, and exercise more than most, yet just seem to be stuck at certain weight no matter what.
And it's not healthy to starve self, so not trying to go down that route.

I rarely eat red meat, I no longer sit down and eat full course meals, so where's the weight coming from?

May be all the sugar intake from little stuff like chips, ect, cause now days food industry loves sneaking all kinds of chemically altered sugar in just about everything we eat and or drink

About an hour ago I felt that moment had come, death through heart attack or something, although I don't think it's my heart, I think it's an internal infection.

I think if I had some penicillin that would take care of it, but that's easier said than done.

I'm a vet, so may go to V/A tomorrow, but I've never taken the time to register, so I can imagine if I'm not walking in there in the process of actually physically dying at the moment, they'll simply have me fill out hours of forms, and more forms, and then have to schedule an appointment for later.

I know how messy that VA stuff can be from hearing horror stories from others and the news.

I mean unless actually dying as you walk in, than you'll have to make an appointment, and that could take weeks or months.

So I bet many 'lie', and say, 'I can't breathe', or 'I'm having a heart attack', just to be looked at first and or immediately.

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It's times like this when having a spouse or lover helps, cause they'll make you go to any emergency room hosptital just to make sure you're safe first and foremost. But when single, and only have self to depend upon, than one tends to put it off.

Me, right now, I don't know what to do.

I don't want to go blow 2,500 dollars for something I didn't have to.
I may just go to a walk in clinic tomorrow and take it from there.

I think I know what it is, an infection cause by inflammation that's in my cavity area or arm area, cause just had a physical weeks ago, was fine.

But what does that mean? It was a light, very basic work related physical, all they do is take your blood pressure, take a urine sample, make you stretch arms out, ect, and that's basically it.