Another Year(s) Older

Happy 59th cuppa from Dr. Mike – click to see the classy Murray tartan around the rim.

Having just celebrated (?) a birthday, I found this recent posting from my fav blogging Doctor (Dr, John Mandrola, from Louisville, KY) thought provoking.

100 is the new 80…If you are good to yourself (and lucky)

Posted: 01 Feb 2014 05:45 AM PST

“There has been a change in your prescription,” said the eye doctor, a wise and bald man, who could have been mistaken for an economics professor at Princeton.

“It’s improved?” the 30 year-old cardiologist asked. Better, improved, always the reflex for athletic cardiologists.

“Doctor…you have been to the pinnacle and passed it. Your eyes, like the rest of your body, are on the downward side.”

Damn aging. The creases, the sags, the morning kinks, and the children on bikes who ride away from you as if they are on a motorbike.

Then there is Frenchman Robert Marchand.

The phrase I like to use when leaving the exam room of arrhythmia patients: “Be good to yourself.”

Likely, Mr Marchand is no Rabbit Angstrom.

JMM

http://www.drjohnm.org/2014/02/100-is-the-new-80-if-you-are-good-to-yourself-and-lucky/

Also, just saw a CNN story about a 99 year old Japanese woman who is a world class endurance swimmer. She got started in the sport while still a youthful 83!

Check out video at: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/09/world/asia/japan-on-the-road-elderly/index.html?iref=allsearch

I guess I wouldn’t mind living to be 100 years old. So long as I don’t run out of $$$ – and can keep running marathons!

“Anything worth doing is going to be difficult,” says Fauja Singh, the 100-year-old runner who this week became the world’s oldest person to complete a full-length marathon, crossing the line at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront event in eight hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds. (And he didn’t finish last: five came in after him.)