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Thread #101327   Message #2748060
Posted By: Donuel
19-Oct-09 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: Indignities of Aging: the Sordid Truth
Subject: RE: BS: Indignities of Aging: the Sordid Truth
At a certain age you go to the doctor and at the end they dispassionatly give you a pre printed 'hand out' of what you have.
I call it the dented fender report.
Last week hey handed me a print out for posterior ocular detanchment " due to old age your vitrious humor turns watery instead of its usual gel like consistency and pulls away from the back of the eye..."

The idignity of going all watery or drying up like some dihessent seed pod is how these print outs often describe some new aspect of decrepitude.

Be it a sensory loss or organ failure they have a hand out that says "Usually this condition is not dangerous BUT..."
Then the bad news and dire expectations conclude the report.

I used to go to the doctor to get better.
Now I go for hand outs.