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The most striking thing I ever read on aging:
From a geriatric,
Life is kind of like taking a nice long shower. When you're young, it feels good and invigorating. But as you get older, it's like they just keep turning down the hot water until there's nothing good about it anymore, but you're still now allowed to get out.
My mother was in her 70's, diabetes, bad stroke in her 50's, heart problems, kidney problems creeping in. She had been in the ER life or death quite a few times. Hearing was marginal, vision was marginal, most of her diet needed to be bland and blended smooth.
"If I go in again and they need to do something to save me, just let me go, promise me that, I'm miserable all the time and there's nothing left they can do for me to make it any better."