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Living To 100? Maybe, Maybe Not
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Sorry I am in the “Cone of Silence” and can’t hear Agent Maxwell Smart…I loved “Get Smart” so much gowning up. That was my first thought when I saw the thumbnail but I will checkout the video.
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What? You’ll have to type louder!!
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I recently saw the story about a group asked what they would like to have said at the time of their death. The first hoped to be remembered as a good husband and father. The second wanted people at his wake to say, “He was a great man and a good friend.” The third hoped that they would say, “Look, he’s moving.”
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It’s a funny thing about living to 100, you generally get there in good health or barely hanging on. I work in a skilled care unit at a retirement community. We have quite a few folks who are at or over 100. We have a woman in July turning 104 and she is mostly spending her time in bed. While we have another woman turning 103 in August that takes no medicines, has all her facilities, is witty, friendly and has no problem getting around on her own. I was talking to another resident who is in “Independent Living” and he finally stopped golfing about 2 years ago when he turned 99. He still gets around on his own, has a wicked sense of humor, can remember all the words to every song and is a great person. Then there is the woman who is 103 and knits scarves everyday for poor inner city kids as Christmas presents. She is a remarkable person who has had terrible vertigo for over 70 years and still gets around on her own (carefully).
If you ask the folks (nurses, CNAs…etc) who work with these elderly people, they will tell you that they have no interest in living to 100. BTW, the first woman I mentioned who is turning 104 next month, was actually doing pretty well until COVID and all the lockdowns happened. Till then, she would have a Johnny Walker black “neat” every day just after dinner.
Edit: One woman who passed a few years back, was 105 and was constantly telling jokes “funny ones”. A Priest came to her bedside and was giving her the last rites just before her 106th birthday. Before he began, she looked up and him and asked, “Father, would you like to hear a joke?”. True story.
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