Grow old disgracefully.

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Thought i'd just pop in here for a chat.I've been feeling very low just lately with bad arthritis pain, the last two days have been much better for me. I have been doing lots of my own research as I've not had much help from the medics and I came across 30 ways to grow old disgracefully.

Anybody want to up the count with your own ideas link below incase you're too bored to read further.
Sadly, however, a new survey by the charity Arthritis Care says that 'as many as two million people living with arthritis are frustrated with the outcome of consultations with health care professionals'. They say they receive neither adequate sympathy nor help to manage their symptoms. Four out of five GPs 'seriously underestimate the impact arthritis has on people's lives', according to the charity. The result, they say, is that many sufferers become resigned to a life of pain, convinced that the condition is something they just have to put up with.
Part of the problem is that the mainstay of managing the painful symptoms of osteoarthritis, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) such as ibuprofen, can be disappointing as they may not provide complete relief and can have unwanted side effects.

https://www.saga.co.uk/health_news/ar...508BAEC55C.asp

Best answers:

• Needmoney
  Really sorry to hear of your pain, My late mother too suffered greatly until She started daily doses of Feverfew tablets (Health Food shop), no side effects and really helped ease the pain.. Good luck
• Thanks for that ttoli, nice of you.
  No tips for growing old disgracefully from you or anybody else though. I thought somebody would have posted something deliciously disgracefull.
• Aha, a challenge ! How about this -
  Take your motorbike test and splash out on a Ducati Monster
  and donate your organs a bit sooner than you planned to
• ha ha Wicked Dora but a bit too much for me ta.
  Took a few motorbike lessons last year but don't think I'll be continuing this year.
  But challenge - yes. I thought there'd be a few more perhaps I posted in the wrong place thought it would be a bit of fun in here.
• Must admit that most of the suggestions on your link seem more like being in denial than growing old (dis)gracefully - i.e. who in their right minds would actually want to do most of those things? I like the one about screening out unwanted phone calls, and buying a Winnebago (we are looking into more modest campervans at the moment) but the idea of going to a disco, with or without people young enough to be my grandchildren, appals me. I've looked forward to a bit of peace and quiet for decades!
  My suggestion is to take retirement as early as financially viable, thus getting out of the rat race, and then arrange your lifestyle to reflect the re-evaluated importance and simple pleasures of time v wealth. Sit back and enjoy the Aldi economy coffee while watching the rest of the world rush by.
  My other tip is to turn the TV off more often - be selective. Check the radio listings each day as well as the TV, especially BBC Radio 4 and 5-Live. There is a wealth of free entertainment (in the broadest sense of the word) 24-hours a day. The small-hours output of the World Service is excellent for insomniacs too!
• When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
  With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
  I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
  And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
  And run my stick along the public railings
  And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
  I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
  And pick the flowers in other peoples' gardens
  And learn to spit.
  You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
  And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
  Or only bread and pickle for a week
  And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
  But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
  And pay our rent and not swear in the street
  And set a good example for the children.
  We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
  But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
  So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
  When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
  Jenny Joseph (1932 -)
• We left our son in England and ran off to a mountain in Spain.
• I am off to Sheffield to the Rolling Stones' concert over the Bank Holiday. Does that verge on the disgraceful use of a pension and does it make me a "Honky Tonk Pensioner"?
• Probably not KMK, after all you're only going to watch a gang of old age pesioners playing in a band
• Tell all your male grandchildren you used to be a porn star and you hope they won't think ill of you if they come across one of your films.
  That'll cure any masturbating habits they have once and for all
• We go to see the rolling Stones next Teusday in Cardiff.
  Margaret we stayed here this month
  BB we're buying something akin to a Winebago pretty soon
• I think all our neighbours are growing old disgracefully - the number of fireworks we have had recently must mean they are all at it - unless they have them every night!
  Grump over, I must agree with most of the other things though. Especially the TV DH hasn't found the off button yet!
• I hardly ever turn my TV on exilibris and most times it's just for a radio station so like somebody on another thread said when the licence goes up again I may not bother.
  Nice to see a few replies but i would like more
  Perhaps we'll have to invite the younger ones in to give us ideas
• Something deliciously disgraceful ? My telly is on when I'm in - it's rather nice to have some life going on in the background if one lives on one's own, and I doubt there's more rubbish on it than there is in the newspapers, radio, internet and in day-to-day life.
  Of course having the telly on makes me a thoroughly disgraceful person