Taking an age poll....

Nitro Dan · Post by **Nitro Dan** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:31 pm

47, and been cpappin' for 20 of them....

snowdog · Post by **snowdog** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:42 am

You're not kidding. We've had to learn to be more careful after our son spends the day with my wife's cousins (the adopted grandparents).

One time recently after he had a day there my wife had the refrigerator open while she was putting groceries away. Our son made a bee-line to the fridge and started pulling things out. Don't ask me why but apparently this is a "game" that the cousins play with him. Needless to say we had a nice discussion with them about using the fridge as a toy. They're both in their 50's and raised five kids between them. You'd think they would keep him away from the fridge. Being their first "grandchild" everything he does is "cute" to them at this point.

Patrick A wrote:
To all of us over fifty group, Grandchildren are a pay back for all of the things our children did while they were growing up , the great thing about Grandchildren is that you can spoil them rotten and then you can send them home.

tater pie · Post by **tater pie** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:15 am

I had my first grandchild when I was 40 years old. My oldest daughter, her mother, was 19 at the time. I still had two little ones and one pre-teen at home. I loved my granddaughter a lot but I was still too much into mothering to really take an active role in her life. Besides, her other grandmother kept her while my daughter worked and she didn't like me one bit and would refuse to let me spend time with her whenever she could so I never felt like a real grandmother. Finally, last May, after 14 years to the day, my second oldest daughter gave birth to my little grandson. My youngest son is in the Air Force and left for a two year stint in Japan in July and I started keeping little Ryan when his mom returned to work a week before my son left. I must say that Ryan is the apple of my eye. I have been so greatful for getting cpap treatment started last November so I have the energy to keep up with him. I love everything about keeping him. It's true that grandparenting is so much more fun than parenting. I notice and relish every little accomplishment he makes. He started rolling over by himself yesterday so I put a quilt on the floor and laid down and rolled over and over with him on the floor. He's absolutely the cutest thing and every time he smiles he literally lights up the room. I could go on and on about him and bore everybody to death but I feel so blessed to be able to stay with him all day. Sometimes I have to keep him overnight for several night in a row while my daughter is away on business and I enjoy that even more. I have a nursery set up in my house. So enjoy your kids while you can. Grandparenting will come soon enough and remember that a grandchild has two sets of grandparents and needs BOTH of them and don't shut off the other grandparents. I have a somewhat distant relationship with my granddaughter now and I wish it could have been different but that's water under the bridge. I just have to do the best I can.

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:31 am

Tater Pie,
Makes me jealous! But I have some time for grandchildren, I THINK, since my sons are 22 and 19, and my own baby girl is going to be 13. None of them are ready for, nor want, children at this point. But I cannot wait to be a grandmother. Lucky you!!!

Cyngen · Post by **Cyngen** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:54 am

49...just barely

Been on cpap for about 5 weeks, still wake up in the morning with the mask on the nightstand. Don't know when I take it off.

I do feel much better now with it.

My baby turns 21 on October, the kids brag to their professors about the cool parents that ride motorcycles all over the USA.

ProfessorSleep · Post by **ProfessorSleep** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:09 am

49, for another month or so. Yikes! Five-0, it can't be!! I guess I'm not still that kid who broke the gender barriers at motocross tracks all across Georgia anymore.... gawd, that was fun!

There's a thought - a full face motorcycle helmet with the hose inside and sealed with duct tape. Something for everyone - No swoosh marks and it doesn't matter if you mouth breathe (just don't drool).

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 4:19 pm

Now that I have been muscled into providing a pic - I guess I can fess up on age too.

Turn 60 on Nov 5th.

I ain't gonna claim the usual (I feel 45 or whatever )

I've been here 60 years, I look like it & logically I must feel like it too though somtimes I feel like I have been around for at least 100 years but I put that down to soaking up so much from my grand-parents & parents. Most of the time I feel I can speak for them or even as them.

Cheers

DSM

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:40 pm

Well, put a baby next to you and it can not only make you feel ancient, but look older, too. Now if you took a photo with your great grandfather, you'd look like the baby. I think you're holding up pretty darn good for a 60 year old man. But they say 60 is the new 40, no? And the older I get, the younger 60 seems to me. As a matter of fact, it's middle aged in my book, not even at the "old" threshold yet.

dsm · Post by **dsm** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:15 pm

Sleepless on LI wrote:
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But they say 60 is the new 40, no? And the older I get, the younger 60 seems to me. As a matter of fact, it's middle aged in my book, not even at the "old" threshold yet.

I can recall averts on TV from the 1950s & 1960s and one in particular used to show a man digging in his garden suddenly getting back pain, the voice over would say

"Got Back Pain - then you need Sanatogen" - "Sanatogen for the over 40s".

Back then I though 30 was old 40s was retirement & 50s was old grand folks. & ayone living beyond 60 must be chair ridden in a retirement home.

How things have change (but for who )

Interestingly, we keep hearing how the BBoomers of the late 1940s & the 1950s, and our 1960s kids, may outlive their kids as diabetes is going to be the next big threat & that because we were postwar & brought up lean & mean (as kids that is ) we have a better underlying health plus attitude to it. Don't know how true this is but I keep hearing it.

Also, I promise I won't add a current photo of me with any of my grandparents (nor even my parents) the effect would be too macabre ( )

DSM

Sleepless on LI · Post by **Sleepless on LI** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:00 pm

Okay, DSM. If I didn't know, from that photo, I'd say 48. Think what you will...

Sleeper · Post by **Sleeper** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:16 pm

31 here

SnoreNoMore2005 · Post by **SnoreNoMore2005** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:25 pm

My wife told me her doctor said she had the breasts of a 25 year old.

I asked her what the doctor said about her 45 year old ass and she told me the doctor didn't even mention me.

SnoreNoMore2005

Snuffle-nose · Post by **Snuffle-nose** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 1:01 am

Hello People

I was 25 when I was diagnoised for sleep apeona......I had the mask for overy 3 yrs. I have used the same mask for the past 3 years. I was a young one for sleep apeona as when sitting in the sleep dr's consulting rooms I seem to be the youngest one sitting there waiting for my turn to see the sleep dr!!!!

The first time i saw my sleep dr I felt so out of place. Even in the sleep lab I feel out of place as well. I am sure the younger sleep apeona suffers have felt the same way I did when I first set foot in the sleep labs for sleep test!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:24 pm

52 years young here....and I'm feeling much younger since CPAP came along!

wildangel718 · Post by **wildangel718** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 6:28 pm

Sorry folks...forgot to log in...last post was mine.