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O/T - turned 40 today... What should I expect?

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jason, NW Ontario

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I'd like to think that someone read my mind and has a fully restored Cockshutt 570 with a big ribbon on it for me back at the house.
I expect the coming years will be brilliant as I watch my boys grow and learn the rural life that we desperately want them to know.
I also expect my body to continue to slowly degrade, making most things more challenging.
I've only got 25 more years of working, so I better start investing more in myself. Have a great day everyone.

Jay
 

40 years old was when allergies started to really drag me down due to sinus infections, I got a double hernia, started having problems with my back, and a shoulder. Have a good healthy 40th year!!
 
Fred Astaire said something to the effect that getting old is like anything else, if you want to do it well you have to start young.
Zach
 
Jay,

There's no doubt that age is accompanied by reduced strength, stamina, and an increase in vulnerability to disease. However, none of that is predictable. It's all a matter of genes.

I'm almost 68 years old and still strong as an ox. I'm virtually never sick. I don't take any medications. I farm and work a part-time job off the farm.

I praise the Lord for His blessings, but I for one, would tell you not to be at all concerned about age. Don't slow down. Don't stop. Take what comes.

Tom in TN
 
Got a bumper sticker from my kids on my 40th "40 ain't old..If your a tree". That was 11 years ago, your just a pup and 40 is just a number.
 
At 68 have cattle to feed, wood to cut and had a summer job. Have to keep making youself do things at this age or you start down hill.
 
LOL My knees are shot, back problems and only 56. And I'm restarting the family farm. As you develope pain you learn to work around it.

I keep telling people I'm 21, I celebrated the 35th anniversary of my 21st Bday last June. It's a mind thing!

Rick
 
YEAH ,Thats the Sprit ,,, at 55,Myearly adult life I ran with the governor tied wide open ,,, started over revvvingin my early 40s,,divoce dont help,.. now days, each morning ,Body Aches artheritus ,Cold and Sinusheadache mucus problems , indigestion ,and occasssional panic disorder .... i select whatever medication for whatever symptom i have that mornin ,,and start my day ,, it is a good day , if i do not wear out before 6pm , afterhaving supper,,And i am ready to Roll until Dark30
 
Happy birthday Jason,I turned 50 a couple months ago got a few more aches and pains than when I was forty but still in good shape,eyes and hearing are getting a little weak though.have a good one.
 
My Mother used to say:
"Gettin old beats the alterntive"
So just keep plugging along ,eat right & excerise & you should make it to 90!!
 
Your belt size could start following your age now.LOL

Happy birthday. I'll be 60 in a little over a week.
 
40 is just another number. it doesn't mind if you don't.i'm 57 soon to be 58 and still roofing buildings,last one was 26 sq. and a 12/12 pitch ,done in five days.
 
40? I've got socks older than that!

Just kidding. . .

I'm 63 and feel great. Forget about the number. Every day is a gift!

Happy Birthday!!

Paul
 
I also suffer from sinus. Have you found anything that
works? I had nasel surgury for polops. They grew back
before I could tell any benefits.Lost some sense of
smell,seem to get bronchitis,phnewmona type stuff easier
now. Not fun.
 
I'm 79 and it will surprise you how fast the years pass. Our daughter was born at Ft Bragg NC when I was in the Army. She will soon be 58
and I think she's catching up with us. Hal
 
I'm 68 and only starting to slowing down from a full day of hard work. After 20 years with a nice shop I now have heat. So tractor work will be the plan for the next many many years. Bottom line TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
 
My wife's oldest sister is 94 and she had hip replacements 10 or 12 years ago. She has no heart problems and is in good health. To hear her on the phone you would never think she was that old. Her cousin is the same age and he served in WW2 and he was one of 9 kids. Hal
 
Happy 40th. Those 25 years will zip by quicker than you can imagine. In 25 years you'll realize you still have some spunk left in you despite the little aches and pains and a few doctor visits so then you'll figure you're good to go for 25 more.

I've got about 30 more left in me. By then I'll be 90 and it'll be time to slow down a little bit, but not much. Jim
 
I had more great times after 40 than I had all the years before. I waited till then to have children. They have been the joy that I never had before.
 
There is only one thing I remember about turning forty that slowed me down. I think its about the time I had to look a little harder at the fine print to read it. I started wearing one contact in one eye to correct the problem at about forty five. I didn't really notice anything slowing me down much untill about sixty. I plan to keep active and continue to exersise daily as I always have. My dad died last year at 92 and my mother is still going good at 88. I hope to be around a while too.
 
The biggest thing I have noticed as I have gotten older is that things just take more time. Your not a fast as you used to be. You don't recover as fast as you used too. That I hate the most. You sprain an ankle or hit your shin and it takes a week to get even a little better.

Getting older is still better than your other choice. The best thing about it is things usually get easier financially. You will pay off the house and the kids grow up. I now have some time for hobbies.

Just make sure to spend as much time as you can with your kids. Their childhood will be gone in a flash. You will look back in that twenty five years and wonder where they went.
 
Happy 40th!!

40 was a HARD birthday for me. I looked at like 1/2 time and was shocked how much I still wanted to get done but not yet started. I reflected on where I was in my life and made some corrections.

That was 9 yrs this Jan. and not much has changed. Need reading glasses occasionally. Oh and a wrist watch with bigger numerals 'cuz my arm ain't long enough to see the current numerals.

Take care of yourself, enjoy the simple pleasures of life and don't stop moving if you can. If not alread done adopt a philosophy for life - mine is LIFE, LOVE & LAUGHTER

Remember also to be the person you would want as a friend because at the end of the game the King and Pawn go in the same box.
Life, Love and Laughter
 
live your life now, at 40 , your old enough to know better, but still young enough to enjoy it, all your joints probably still work, minimal health issues most likly, now in my mid 50's i have 3 crushed discs in my back, 1 foot has had a chainsaw hit it sideways, the other had a grader blade fall on it so i walk like a duck now, every morning my joints let me know just where they are, my biggest problem is getting up in the morning, so i can go to work and do the same work as a man half my age, my 40's were my best years, just wish i had taken less jobs imitating a farm mule lol
 
Happy Birthday, and just keep on keepin on. Had a good friend stop by this past week and he is also celebrating a birthday today. His is his 89th. He recently bought a new to him car, a 1929 model A Ford coupe. He also is restoring a buggy to be pulled by his minature horses. He also is breaking a team of minature mules to work. He looks and acts younger than some do at 50. Hope you fare as well. Joe
 
Hey Jay, Happy Birthday. You're a bit less than a year younger. While it was a good day for a party and a reason to get everyone together, it was really just another day.
What is amasing is how fast the last 10 years have gone and how much I have done.....and how much I didn't get finished.

My daughter is sevin and little guy is almost two now...while its great being a farmer and being able to see the kids and spend time with them whenever I want, there never seems to be enough time to do it all.

Enjoy your day, and everything else in your life. Grant
 
Well, first, happy birthday.

I shot through 40, slid through 50, with nary a problem. Even got through 60 without too much trama. But, fair word of warning: It's a downhill slope: It doesn't get better. Growing old ain't for sissies. So, enjoy your younger years while you can. I'm 65, and it's getting tougher to get done what I used to do. Nobody gets outta this alive.
 
never ending mail from AARP, grim-reper, new glass [if wear them], every year, doctors saying you won't feel a thing,[hardly],,,,lol,,, 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'
 
First of all Happy Birthday!
When I was your age I compared life to shinnying across a long rope.... looking over your shoulder it looks like a long way back.. If you look ahead it seems to drop off in the horizon and sometimes seems closer, and it will seem like the wind is picking up. I have been blown off a couple times,but with the faith of God would help me get back on ..here I am.
 
First off, Happy Birthday. Personally I've got one coming up in 4 days and I'll be 44. To answer your question though most things, be they good or bad, won't change a bit. Unfortunately turning 40 isn't like winning the lottery so your age isn't going to change any of that....LOL

Now what is going to change is that you'll start discovering achs and pains in places you never knew existed. As a result you'll probably also have to start experiementing with various rubs like ben-gay, icy hot, etc in order to help with those aches. ((((then find a cologne to compliment the odor of the rub....))) Something I just discovered myself the other day, due to a shoulder aching, the Hot Hands hand warmers make for a great heart source for use during the day when you can't set down with a heating pad. I had looked at the ones on the 'pain' isle and they were like 8 bucks for two of them, and they lasted a few hours each. The HotHands packets I picked up came 20 to a pack, and lasted approx ten hours. I got them for like 6 bucks and except for having to get a role of tape to hold them in place they work GREAT.

Beyond the few additional aches and pains I've discovered in the last 4 years, caused by the demands of the kind of work I do, and having done it for so many years, I can't tell you much of anything else to look out for cause, at least for me, nothing else has changed. But, based on the number of responses to your post thus far from the "old" guys on here, I think I need to read on down through all of them myself to see what I'm in store for myself......Or maybe not. I figure if I know what's in store I might just live every day in dread of what's coming next, instead of in anticipation of discovering something new....LOL

Good luck, and again, Happy Birthday.
 
Happy Birthday.You have the rest of your life to look forward to.Negative thoughts about breaking down will not help your mental state at all.My mind still says I feel 25,mirror and body 48.

Vito
 
Happy 40th! When i was 40 I figured I was in my prime. I now had some wisdom to go with the physical attributes which hadn't dimminished yet. Between 40 and 50 is the time to "git-ur-dun". Late 50,s to 61 (where i am now) the mind says "git-ur-dun" but ostyoarthritis , full knee replacement and shoulder torn rotator cuff/bicept tendon/bone spurs surgery tells one he better start to overide the young brain's descisions more often. Don't get me wrong , I WILL enjoy my senior retired years. There will just be a few limitations on the "physical" "git-ur-dun" from now on. "What to expect"? You've got 15 yrs in which to go for it. Stay close to them boys and stay a "family" even if it means embarrassing them once in a while. Come back and ask that question again at 60. RB
 
Happy birthday. You're in your prime right now,today. You can expect to get more tired and sore everyday from now on. Start thinking about things to make work easier for yourself while your mind is sharp enough to come up with good ideas. Just don't make things so easy that you get soft and flabby is all.
 
Don't worry about the small stuff like glasses and the like. However.......if you still have a big progect ahead, like building a new barn its time to get to it. you may not feel like it sooner then you think. I was good as gold till 50 but then ruptured disk in my back. So if you have a big job ahead, do it soon. Happy birthday!
 
(quoted from post at 07:24:55 02/12/12) I also suffer from sinus. Have you found anything that
works? I had nasel surgury for polops. They grew back
before I could tell any benefits.Lost some sense of
smell,seem to get bronchitis,phnewmona type stuff easier
now. Not fun.
Click to expand...

Irrigate! irrigate! Irrigate! I do it three times a day, spray saline 3 times in each nostril and breathe it in. I also take 24 hour antihistamine, that helps a lot too. The PAs kept telling me to take decongestant The specialist finally told me that the decon just makes it harder to drain.
 
Well I'm 64 and probably the worst is the abundant crap you'll get and can't seem to stop from AARP.LOL What I didn't know until I got older was what they were all about.

But just remember don't take stupid chances when doing anything, figure out the safe way so not to get injured because it will come back to haunt you later. You know the old saying "if I'd known I was going to live this long I'd taken better care of myself" does come true. Be honest and make friends and take time to have fun after all you don't want the wife to have to hire pallbearers.

Jim
 
People used to give me this nonsense about how after 40 everything goes downhill, or you're on the homestretch to the dirt nap, or the best is over, or you'll never be as good again, and all sorts of other garbage. Having turned 40 decades ago I can tell you that all those things are true!

Jim
 
You asked,what to expect? well for starters. age spots,wrinkles,arthritis.loss of eye sight,Higher taxes, rising cost of everything,power naps,wife nags more often, Honey do list grows longer everyday,what used to take an hour,when you were 18, now takes all day,sometimes two days.More importantly, what can't get up------ can't get out.LOL.
 
I started a whole new life and career after 40. Retired at 69. Still do pretty much anything I did in my earlier years----except tree climbing, and, uh, you know...... I do things a lot slower, and I spend a lot more time "thinking about" doing things, especially those things I know are going to hurt.
 
Expect tomorrow to arrive. Nothing will change much.

I'm 77 and, frankly, I don't feel much different or look at myself any differently than I did 30 or so years ago.
 
Your eyes will play tricks on you.
Things stop working.
Bones creak and pop.
You forget where you put things.
Forget where you were going.
Hurt in places you never knew you had.
Slow down on BEER drinking. Hangovers hurt more than they used to.
When it is cold you never can seem to get warm enough.

Other that and a few more things getting past fifty ain't that bad.
 
Happy 40th--can't remember what I did for my 40th, so don't get too excited. Age does the same number on all of us one way or another. Important thing is don't stop planning for tomorrow, next week, net month, next year, and do a little of it every day.
 
The older I get , the more steps I need to get up on the tractor . I remember whe I did not need any steps , same tractor. clint.
 
Three things:
Make what you do at work as good as being on vacation.
Treat your family/others with 50% of your at home time.
Use your wisdom to accomplish, not brute force.

Jim (63 on Valentines Day)
 
Well there's a few things I'd like to say:
- Thank you for the birthday wishes. I'm at work until Wednesday, so we'll have to celebrate at a later date.
- I appreciate the advice, words of encouragement, and things to watch for in the coming years.
- Lastly, I had no idea how OLD some of you guys were! LOL
Thanks again everyone, enjoy your evenings

Jay
 
I can honestly say I dreaded 40 more than any other birthday and, so far, my 40s have been the best years yet. I got a few presents that I didnt want and a few I was glad to see. Got released from the ortho rehab and could walk again, divorce was finalized, and the IRS audited me. Its been a great ride, and its not even half over, I hope!!!!
 
Happy Bday. I just turned 64 last week.

After reading all this crud, I'll tell you my twist on things. 40 ain't bad. But you should know, that's when you start to die. But, don't despair. By the time you hit 50, you won't care anyway.
 
40? Ohhh nooo, not 40.

Night I turned 40, some friends took me out night clubbing. I was having a heck of a time too. Grabbing women left and right out on the dance floor, tearing it up. "Its my birthday, this is great". The hottest one of them all, having the best time dancing with me too, said "Happy Birthday, how old are you?". I told her, "40!!!". She quit dancing and looked at me and said "40? Ick, you're too old for me" and left me standing there.

40 years old? These days I wish I had that problem, but learned not to go around telling anyone, especially hot chicks on the dance floor. Not if I want to get to know them better, if you know what I mean.

Happy birthday amongst us here, but when out night clubbing, xnay on the fortyay if you know what I meanay. Grin.

Mark
 
what the movie star said was true; life after forty is just patch, patch, patch!
 
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