I'm falling apart

[primsong]

I suddenly feel as if my warranty is running out on my body or something. I go to the dentist who tells me I'll likely need a crown on a tooth this year because it's cracking. Then my glasses break (thankfully I have my backup pair until I get them fixed). Tomorrow I go to a foot-doctor because I apparently now will need orthotic inserts in my shoes thanks to my arches giving out on me. My neck is getting more turkey-like and my hands are freckling and getting that 'old' look.

What gives? Hey! Body! I'm not done with you yet, thanks. C'mon - we should be getting more mileage than this. :-p

I haven't really mentioned any of it anywhere but here, however... somehow I can grumble here and it doesn't count. If I grumble out loud to my Real World people I feel like I'm *also* turning into one of those old people who are always reciting a litany of all the things that are going wrong with their body whenever you talk to them. Bleah!

So, what body part is falling off/malfunctioning/needing replacement in your version of The Human Body (tm) today? Let's hear it! Alphabetically, if need be. Are you practically bionic or still mostly organic?

Comments

[justice_turtle]

*giggles* My feet, knees, and the various joints in my hips can feel pretty aged some days (especially considering I'm only a quarter-century old), and I'm developing something of a hunchback already O_O, but I'm lucky to have excellent eyes and teeth.

(Well, except when I get eyestrain and have to hide in a dark room being bored. ;P But I don't need glasses or suffer from astigmatism, or any of that.)

[primsong]

Good eyes and teeth are wonderful parts to have, seriously. When you can't see or eat without help, it's quite annoying. And by all means, a person does not have to be old to get to complain - Since junior high I have a knee that clicks if I walk at a particular angle so I have to be careful when trying to tip-toe through quiet places or everyone hears "pop pop pop pop pop" as I walk. :-p Sometimes a grumble is good for the soul.

[lurkingcat]

Heh! I've been feeling like grumbling about that recently too but I keep telling myself that some of my woes are just caused by it being winter.

So, let me see... I arrived with a faulty circulatory system and that problem is getting worse as I get older. The backs of my hands have abruptly done that thing where the skin looks thinner and goes wrinkly. I am (inevitably) losing the battle with genetics and going I'm going stout around the middle just like all the other womenfolk on my mother's side of the family - which is not exactly a crisis however much my vanity likes to think it is. I creak in places I that I didn't use to. And underneath the hai rdye I think my hair is mostly grey now. Although that last point isn't so bad. If I stop dyeing my hair I think it'll look quite cool :)

On the plus side nothing's gone so badly wrong with me that I'm in need of bionic replacements.

[primsong]

I always like to think I'd be one of those people who can just let their hair be whatever color it naturally will be... but then I started getting these wavy white hairs popping up and I found myself wanting to pluck or dye them. My own vanity is apparently kicking back harder than I expected, lol... I like your solution, dye until there's enough of it that it isn't so speckled / partial and then let it go.

Ah genetics - I much as everyone hates the idea of a Superior Race and all that, you have to admit there would be advantages to getting to cherry-pick your genetics for aging at least. ;-)

[lurkingcat]

I got to my final year at university with my natural hair colour intact and then I got so fed up with the assumptions that people make about each other based solely on hair colour that I decided I'd try not being blonde for a few months.

Being a cautious soul I went out and bought some semi-permanent dye - enough of an experiment to get an idea of what it was like but not enough to get stuck with it for a long time. Or so I thought.

The semi-permanent dye turned my hair a mousey brown and in a fit of final-year-of-freedom rebellion I stopped out to the chemist and bought some permanent dye...

It's been black ever since and I've found that I really like it that way :) Although my inner teenager still wants to try dying it electric blue from time to time!

My Mum looked great with grey hair and even better now that it's gone snowy white, so I will probably stop dyeing mine eventually.

[senmut]

Oy, I am sorry to hear of all the warranty stoppages!

You don't want my list. I started officially breaking the warranty conditions back in '96 and haven't stopped yet.

((I think I was assembled incorrectly, as most of mine are skeletal/muscular related))

[primsong]

"Assembled incorrectly" - I like that analogy. I know what you mean, though. There are times I wonder if some of my parts came from the scratch-and-dent bargain corner of the Body Mart.

[archersangel]

i need glasses to see far away.
i've had bad knees for a long time now.
my ears ring.
my left hip doesn't hurt as much since i lost some weight, but that could be an issue in years to come.
various joints (mostly wrists & shoulders) crack, pop & sometimes hurt.

[primsong]

Oy, ears ringing would be a most annoying one to deal with indeed. And it sounds like we could probably start an entire comm just for People who Hate their Knees, they are surely one of the weak spots in the entire shebang. Yay on the improvement with the hip - I'd probably ease a few things by losing some of my blubber as well, go you on achieving that!

[primsong]

Yeah, I didn't get one of those "Inspected By No. 2340894 for Quality Assurance" tags with my body either...

;-)

[elij_0650]

I miss knees which bend without pain.
The back trouble, the OOS, all that I have work arounds or fixits that keep things chugging along.
Not being able to walk means I'm getting fatter, and that is putting more stress on the knees which makes walking harder.
Catch-22

[primsong]

I know, right? The worse my arches and such have gotten in my feet, the less I want to be on them at all much less taking long walks or other exercisey things. Which makes me fatter, etc. I am seriously looking at really fat old people who painfully edge along with walkers in the mall with a different light now - go there? Do Not Want!
I don't subscribe to the idea that you have to be suffering from something truly horrendous before you're allowed to grumble about it a bit - at least to other people who can even out the Grumble Spectrum by grumbling back. We're all a little better for airing it out now and then.