Kinda scary...first time for me.

[straightshooter1]

I, too, am on one of the "blood thinners" and I have the same things happen to me.

A minor bump, not really noticed at the time, but blood dripping from it a few minutes later.

Very annoying, kind of embarrassing, and irritating.

I don't seem to get the bruises many others get, but just a little bump or scratch and there I am-Bloody Bob, wandering around clueless as to what happened, when and why.

I do like being old enough to be retired, doing all the things I didn't seem to have enough time to do when I was younger and much fitter, but there are a few drawbacks.

People staring at you like you are some kind of a bozo is one of them.

Bob

 

[rburg]

Now can we talk about falling down? OK, maybe its not real normal, but I've never sought to be normal. I'd like it if I could blame too much booze. it would be a face saving way to explain my inability to remain upright. My sons think I'm just in too much of a hurry to take another nap. OK, so I've fallen down a few times.

Then today my mother calls from the retirement home where she lives. She says its nothing serious, and she feels fine. We needed to take her some stuff she's been wanting anyway. So we come to find out she took a fall. I tried to comfort her a little by suggesting it runs in the family. She says she fell and hit her head on the cross bar on her walker. So I tried to explain to her she needs to work on the art of explanations.

Had it been me, I'd have seized on the bar portion of the thing. Everyone understands a fall in a bar. No reason to include stuff about walkers and such. Or that her head hit a bar. Just keep it to the simple facts about a bar and a fall. Everyone may think you're a lightweight, but they'll blame alcohol instead of lack of balance.

As we age no one wants to give us a little slack. Realizing that is pretty important. You've got to give with the punches. As for minor cuts that bleed, carry a few band aids in your billfold and a first aid kit in your car. The latest are bacon printed band aids. Grand kids love them too.

The simple fact seems to be that we'll be having these little problems more often as time goes on. Learn to laugh about it.

 

[LEO918]

This old age ain't for sissies.

 

[joeintexas]

Welcome to the over 60 group! I turn over in bed I bleed! Glad you're ok.

 

[4011]

Did you buy any bullets while,you were at Wally world?

 

[rwsmith]

The simple fact seems to be that we'll be having these little problems more often as time goes on. Learn to laugh about it.

I think that is what we are doing!

 

[foxeye]

Have they checked you for Agent Orange poisoning? One of the symptoms among many others is shortness of breath. I wonder if you had a slight reaction to it.

Not that I am aware of. Never had any checks by the VA for it anyhow. I doubt it would have even crossed the civilian docs mind, but I will bring it up to the pulmonary doc and cardiologist on my next visit in about 2 weeks or so. Like I said, on paper I am healthy as a horse, but they know differently from the pulmonary stress test I had as in only 3 ninutes or so of time on it, I was like an old steam engine huffing and puffing, and COPD has been ruled out as has the other frespiratory diseases and heart diseases. Thanks for the info.

 

[george minze]

Getting old ain't for sissy's LEO918 said If it ain't one thing it's another Aman to that..Truer words never spoken!!!!!!

 

[feralmerril]

I am on blood thinner. Anytime I get a operation or a tooth pulled I am suppose to get off the thinner about a week and take lubinox shots twice a day in the gut. Also another week after surgery. I had my nose cut off due to cancer and had to be off the thinner. I was starting to recover but twice had to go to emergency to save my life. The first time a clott let go and I almost bled to death. The secound time I was weak and doing something, fell down on the concrete and didnt even turn my head. I busted my new nose in and almost bled out by the time my wife got me to emergency. The first time it was a $980 ride for the 2 mile ride to the hospital. The secound time I wouldnt let theresa call the ambulance. I dont want to go through that fix again!

 

[RightArm]

Seems like I never leave the gun range without some cut somewhere on my hands. My hands used to be tough as iron, alas, no longer.
Hoppe's #9 really hurts on cuts. It can sometimes get through bandaids.
I figure it means the cut won't get infected.

 

[snubbyfan]

My wife and I have agreed to keep the blood on the inside.

 

[deanodog]

Pushing 75 years old and I am in this crowd with bruises and thin skin. Running a string trimmer the clippings bruise my arms when I pick up a small stone or dirt clod.

 

[Bkreutz]

Like I told my doctor - - "If I knew I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself!" (he wasn't amused)

 

[Roadtrash]

Amen to that! When I was a young lad I didn't think I would make it to 30, I was a little rowdy back then. Anyway now I'm more than twice that plus a little and I sure wish I had taken better care of the old body.

 

[FP2000H]

Don't feel too bad. I fell off a ladder today in a client's master suite closet while installing a security system. Luckily, my co-worker broke my call. lol

 

[chud333]

I walked into the house last weekend after getting home from
helping my buddy on his family farm. We had been cutting wood
all day with chainsaws, (thinning the fence rows around his tillable fields).
I was sore and tired and walked in the front door looking like the
old, tired soul i am, kicked off my boots so as to not track thru
the house. The wife said her howdy and looked at me and about
came unglued. "What happened to you" ??? "Are you alright" ???
I had'nt a clue what she was talking about. Turns out i had a dried
patch of blood covering the left side of my face.
Darned briars......
No chainsaw accident. Just cut up a little in the brush clearing process.
I laughed my rear off. Just like when i used to come home from
rabbit hunting. Haha

Chuck