On getting old

28th September 2024 - 2nd Novembre 2024

Yes, I will be turning 60 in a few months and I've started realizing a few things. 

I broke my wrist on 31st January this year 2024, got plastered on 3rd February, had to cope with the plaster for 6 weeks. Everything was ok after they took the plaster out. But then I was offered some rehabilitation sessions by the Health Department and I became very aware that my wrist was still hurting, that my ablity to grasp has become smaller, that my fingers are sore when I try to close them strongly.

Then, on 14th September I twisted my ankle 3 times because of my new sandals, which have a smaller sole

In the meantime, I became less and less confident when I drive at nighttime.

And I ordered (10th September) and started using my first pair of progressive glasses. (In July I had my first shorsightseeing glasses, thinking they would be enough.) This means learning how to use them.

Then, on 31st October, a nurse called me from my Health Centre telling me that I need to change my diet and eat daily a lot more dairy products (3 glasses of milk + yogurts + cheese). She didn't feel she needed to explain that this was connected to the results of the densiometry I had done on 12th September. There, they had already told me to eat more dry fruits, blue fish and green vegetables cooked. I have beginning of of arthosis on my knee and osteopenia on my back (lumbar, lowerback)

All and all, these are just small signs of getting old.

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Segons l’OMS, l’osteoporosi és una malaltia del sistema esquelètic que consisteix en la disminució de la massa òssia, concretament és diagnosticada quan la densitat òssia és menor a 2,5. És aleshores quan el risc de fractures augmenta principalment en maluc, columna vertebral i canell per una major debilitat òssia. https://www.centrojuliafarre.es/ca/dietes/osteoporosi/