Ageing & Growing Old

[Tunn11]

I knew a woman from a Hungarian family who had the most beautiful skin I've ever seen - marbley white, with not a wrinkle anywhere.

I'm sort of thinking "Vampire" here. Run.

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

I'm sort of thinking "Vampire" here. Run.

LOL - This woman was a very interesting person. A great cook who gave me some wonderful recipes, a good friend for a time, but she suddenly moved away to become a casino worker at our Jersey Shore casinos. Then moved clear across the country to work in the casinos out west.
And she never aged. Baffling.

 

[charliebrown]

I have been married 52 years with two adults daughters, so I am sensitive to female problems.

My wife had almost crippling “ hot flashes “.

 

[Iris]

I never had any of the symptoms either.
One of the aides at a school I worked at was some kind of Eastern European and looked to be in about her 50's.
One day she was very annoyed when it came out she was in her 70's.

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

I never had any of the symptoms either.
One of the aides at a school I worked at was some kind of Eastern European and looked to be in about her 50's.
One day she was very annoyed when it came out she was in her 70's.

I know that my blood type is Eastern European, and my Dad's sister, my Auntie, had that lovely skin also.
But she had beautiful cheekbones, I always had fat cheeks which I hated - however, now I realize that chubby cheeks keep you young-looking!

 

[charliebrown]

Well R J,

Funny you said that.

My wife and I are on the “chunky side “, and we were at a wedding and the last thing I thought I would hear from people who have known us for a long time is that we aged well and our skin had no wrinkles.

I guess a little fat is good !

Also these family members have been in the sun too much, and their skin looked wrinkled.

I am not a sun worshipper.

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

Well R J,

Funny you said that.

My wife and I are on the “chunky side “, and we were at a wedding and the last thing I thought I would hear from people who have known us for a long time is that we aged well and our skin had no wrinkles.

I guess a little fat is good !

Also these family members have been in the sun too much, and their skin looked wrinkled.

I am not a sun worshipper.

A little fat never hurts!

 

[Iris]

My sister in law and my middle sister were always slim sun worshippers.
I find their skin very wrinkled and they feel kind of hard when I hug them.

 

[Floyd1]

My sister in law and my middle sister were always slim sun worshippers.
I find their skin very wrinkled and they feel kind of hard when I hug them.

Being British, when I first went to a hot country I was out in the sun as much as I could.
Now though, I would do as the locals do and avoid it from 11am-3pm if possible.

 

[Ronnie Jersey]

I was always out in the sun, from dusk to dawn, or down the shore on the beach, for years.
Didn't do anything to my skin.
These days I will only sit under the trees, but I still catch the sun easily, and I find that getting some sun tightens up the skin, which is a good thing!

 

[Iris]

I was always pale, having red hair so kept out of the sun. The only time I was badly burnt was on an overcast day.
My nephew died at 36 from melanoma. He had red hair and lived in Queensland.

 

[charliebrown]

I saw on TV in the past that in Australia 2 out of 3 people will have to be treated for skin cancer before they reach the age of 70.

The Australian sun must be really damaging to the skin.

 

[JahaRa]

I grew up in the high desert (altitude 5500 feet to 10,000 feet above sea level) Usually lived in the mountains about 7 or 8 thousand feet above sea level. We were outside from sun up to sun down (or later) in the summer, got our first sun burn then turned brown ( or for us lighter, freckled less pink). Now I have to get those benign skin cancers burned off every year, but my face is still fine except for a few dark spots (we called them liver spots when I was a kid). I used sun screen for a while in the 80's but that is when I started getting the skin cancers. So I don't use sun screen, I wear long sleeves and a hat now that I am an old lady with fragile skin.

My aunt an my mother both had to have melanomas taken off in their 60's. My aunt is 90 now, and looks it, but she only had that one skin cancer. She spent her days on horseback most of her life in Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas.

 

[charliebrown]

Really interesting !

Doctors claim skin damages are done when we are exposed to the sun at a young age.

 

[JahaRa]

Really interesting !

Doctors claim skin damages are done when we are exposed to the sun at a young age.

Yeah, doctors aren't trained to take into account all factors. So they can claim all kinds of things and be right a little over 50% of the time.

 

[Sollywos]

I saw on TV in the past that in Australia 2 out of 3 people will have to be treated for skin cancer before they reach the age of 70.

I learned that fact only last week while reading an 'outback' crime novel. Jane Harper 'The Lost Man' I think it was.

 

[Sollywos]

I am an old lady with fragile skin.

Another poster I've managed to misimagine (is that a word?) ... for some reason I'd always visualised you to be in your late 30's. Unless of course you do consider late 30's to be old

Sollywos (early 70's in case you were wondering) Hang on what year are we in? Oh yeah '23 mmmm coming up to mid 70's then.

 

[Sid]

Really interesting !

Doctors claim skin damages are done when we are exposed to the sun at a young age.

Well, what happens to an older persons over-exposed skin then I wonder. . . enter the competion for Bake-Off perhaps?

 

[Xanatic*]

At my local beach I can certainly see why the word tanning is used for what they do. Skin like leather.

 

[charliebrown]

I love the word “ misimagine” because we could be a green Martian from Mars on this web site and nobody would know.

 

[brownmane]

I love the word “ misimagine” because we could be a green Martian from Mars on this web site and nobody would know.

Nope. I'm a purple Venusian. I always thought I'd like to be from Venus. No rationale. Just a planet with a romantic name.

 

[charliebrown]

Well, Venus is the goddess of love !