Living in "an old house"

[digitS']

I once started a thread about "what people don't talk about."

I quickly realized that it was very political and deleted it. Really, it was not appropriate \:. This isn't inappropriate for a random ramble. I mean, if you want to talk about living in an aging body, go ahead! Nobody wants to talk about it that I know but, don't all of us (lucky ones) go through it?

I'll start off by making a (weird ) comparison with my olde house. Yeah. I don't understand why the interior doors work well during some months of the year and poorly most of the other months! Lived here a long time, don't understand it ...

Now, not wanting to jinx things, I'm wondering why my eyesight has improved in recent years ..! And no, it has nothing to do with housing ... or, does it ... There seems to be next to nothing about improved vision and aging on the internet. One little thing I read had something to do with pre-cataract conditions ... yikes!

I see you ... all of you oldsters .

Steve

 

[so lucky]

Steve, my parents' vision got better with age, up to a point. They were reading without glasses for a few years. I think an eye doctor gave an explanation, but I can't remember what it was.

 

[Nyboy]

I can not remember the last time, I was able to make it though the night without having to use bathroom.

 

[Ridgerunner]

The only improvement in my vision come when I clean my glasses or get a new prescription. I have not noticed any other improvement with age. I went to the eye doctor yesterday, my prescription has not changed in over two years. You'd like her, by the way. She sold her practice and moved back to her small town and opened an office with just her, no assistants. She kept a few old patients that live in the immediate area but doesn't accept any new patients. She told me I was the first to see her since the Daylight Savings Time change so she has had a lot of time to spend in her garden.

One reason doors may sometimes work better than others might be a change in the foundation. Rain might swell the ground and drought might cause it to shrink. With your dry climate, maybe things expand when they are hot and shrink when they are cold. In drought I've had trouble getting the hasp to work on my garden gate. In your body, do you have different diets at different times of the year, or maybe different amounts of exercise. Different amounts of Vitamin D or something like that might make as difference too.

 

[bobm]

Steve, as to your interior doors ... during wet and / or soil freezing times of the year the soil under the house foundation swells so the house shifts up or down or sideways unevenly slightly depending on the different / adjacent soil types in their specific location ,so door frame is slightly shifted one direction or another at an angle that doesn't quite line up with the door frame. When the soil dries out , the foundation then returns to it's former position and the doors once again return to working order. Or, depending on the soft or hardwood used for the door and / or frame, their expansion / contraction is governed by atmospheric humidity.

 

[Carol Dee]

We also have an old home with doors and such that work better/worse depending on time of year. DH thought it was humidity!
My eye sight just gets worse. My folks both wore glasses as teens and young adults, then for man y years did not need them. Then as they continued to age they needed glasses again.

 

[thistlebloom]

I can commiserate on the doors too Steve. My not-olde-house has a few doors that don't shut tight enough to engage the thingy that clicks into that other thing in the door frame. (Sorry for the technical language, I'm weaning myself off so much coffee).
Not a problem generally, except for the one that is a bathroom door.
DH has said he will fix it. He wasn't specific as to the year though.

My moms vision improved as she got older. She quit wearing glasses altogether. She had an astigmatism, so I think as she aged the shape of her eye changed.
Dad had macular degeneration, so his just got worse. He had amazing vision as a younger man though. I remember those very long cross country trips to see my grandparents and dad could read those Burma shave signs when they were just dots up ahead! It was a regular route we took every year....it's possible I guess that he had them memorized. But he sure impressed his kids!

 

[digitS']

Shifting foundation had never occurred to me! Same foundation for 115 years! One develops "expectations" !

NyBoy is talking about the doors of the body ... yes, what happened to that good night's sleep - down the drain ?

I was a near-sighted kid and had the lens to correct my vision at 15. The one eye was at 180/20 or 200/20 for decades. "Middle-aged" eyes happened right on cue when I was about 40. I remember telling the eye doctor that I could only see clearly the food I'd put on my dinner plate!

The eyes have been steadily improving for about 8 or 10 years. Optometrist exam Wednesday - One eye is 20/20 & the other is 20/25 ..!!

I can't read much other than signs . I've gone from near-sighted kid, half-blind middle-aged guy, to a far-sighted olde man!

I need glasses to read so - reading glasses? Would I be okay with them on a chain around my neck? I need two shirt pockets! Always wear a hat outdoors - how am I gonna carry reading glasses?

Steve

 

[so lucky]

When I worked in the garden store, it always amazed me the number of middle aged men who could not read the directions on the chemical bottles. In no way did I think these men could not read....just not the fine print! I guess women of the same age had given up and gone to the eye doctor to get glasses, but their spouses had not felt that need yet.

 

[Nyboy]

I have a magnifying glass in my pen holder for small print