What’s Up Wednesday?
Things I Didn’t Know But Found Out Later In Life
~from She’s a Keeper!
No, aging doesn’t happen gradually:
Rapid changes in the 40s and 60s
Nature Medicine published a study by Stanford Medicine that people experience two periods of rapid biological changes and that they occur around the ages of 44 and 60. These bursts are marked by dramatic changes in the number of microorganisms and molecules in the body.
I could have been in this study.
In my forties I started wearing glasses. Oh, they are just readers, but still, the need for them started in this decade. Of course, I tried to find the coolest ones to make me look hip and not old.
I put on weight in my forties. Menopause weight, I guess, but it stayed with me quite a while.
During my forties, Advil or was it Aleve, presented a commercial where a woman was hiking and after her hike, she spoke to the camera and said something about how she took the product afterwards and how much better her aches and pains felt. Aches and pains? I thought they were just headache medicine. Then my sixties happened.
When I was ten shopping on a Saturday in downtown Rich’s with my mother, I discovered the bird flapping arms in older women in the women’s restrooms. Flabby arms on these women and they weren’t all that old. I’d image in their late sixties. I told myself that was NOT going to happen to me. Best laid plans…
And what about the book, I FEEL BAD ABOUT MY NECK by Norah Ephron? Norah was 65 when her book was published. While reading it in my fifties, couldn’t understand why that was a book title UNTIL my 60s. Then MY dastardly neck showed up.
There are two kinds of necks in women: a turkey neck or a pig neck. I had the latter. I mean, here I am today at 71 with a pig neck and flapping bird arms! NOT a pretty sight.
There is no way to win at this neck game. The arm game, I guess you can hide with sleeves (but not in a bathing suit!). But a turkey or pig neck!? Bless our hearts.
P.S. I hear there is surgery for both to reduce that extra fat/skin. See below for the before and after picture of a turkey neck.
