Dear reader, can you identify whatever health problems you have?
Let's began with things that matter. Do you have problems with your heart, your arteries? Do you have problems with high blood pressure? Think through if your brain affected by your artery health?
Do you have problems with cancer? Is part of your problems with cancer-related to cancer is you're trying to prevent the disease? If you are battling cancer does that battle interfere with your ability to combat infections and disease?
Do you have problems with blood sugar, diabetes?
These kind of problems are the problems that normally threaten our life. I think we all agree that there big problems. Sometimes the fear of them causes us not to seek out help until they become more problematic and even life-threatening.
Whether or not you made these problems public or not it's totally up to you. I think it's a good idea to tell people who can help you deal with these things, but not everybody indeed needs to know. If you choose to publicly endorse some type of action that may help others, how you do this has many options and it's totally up to you.
Cardiovascular, diabetes and cancer has always been at my focus in walking with the fat-man. As the years of past, I've added dementia to my list.
My first goal was to prevent an early heart attack that many of my family has experienced. One of my favorite uncles passed away in his 50s with an early heart attack. My uncle Bruce was one of my favorite relatives. My brother died in his late 50s. My father was 68 and my mother was 71. I am now 67. On one level I enjoy each day of life, but on another level, I would like to outlive my parents. Years ago I made a magical number of 83. I thought about this back in my 30s when I came up with that formula. I thought that would be a good long life. I still think so. I may not get there but it is a good goal.
In my thirties whatever I thought about being older getting there is a lot different.
In my thirties whatever I thought about being older getting there is a lot different.
As we get older we begin to understand the aging process in personal ways.
There is another area of health that aging brings its problems. Our brain health can be affected by aging. Dementia is something that we should become more informed about. There are things that we can do that may help us for several years.
What about depression, anxiety? What about the possibility of withdrawing and becoming isolated? Is our world becoming dark? Are we experiencing the"black dog"?
Do we have negative friends and relatives that we need to set boundaries?
Losing mobility or the ability to be independent changes our relationships as well. Open your intervention to capable doctors and therapists to help you change living with depression. Thankfully most people never experience clinical depression, but at least 255 of us do.
One of the things that we can do when we get older is to understand what is important to us. We often get an ability not to care what other people may think about it. Use that for your favor if you need to reach out to develop your medical team to include the brain.
There is no need for guilt or shame here the brain is a complicated and wonderful organ. As we get older probably have so many things wrong with it much of which we probably have discovered yet. But there is a great hope for depression and anxiety. We can live on the upbeat in our senior years. Today is a beautiful day, blue skies a nice summer temperature. Good time for a summer drink, an outdoor grill, taking in a deep breath count every good thing we may have going. Thank you, Lord, thank you, friend, that you Rover, etc. Thanks for this day. Keep walking.
As always follow your doctors advise.
