I've sure gotten old!
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,
new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes
I'm half blind,
can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,
take 40 different medications that
make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation;
hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.
2007-10-19 13:22:39 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Not yet! But the time cometh, I fear! Well, as long as we remember to stay on the right side of the road, guess eveyone else will have to get out of the way. Number plate: SENIOR CITIZEN, BEWARE ALL and post the above on the back of the car. then if anything happens, at least you can say:- "Well, I warned you!"
2007-10-19 13:48:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Dear God.
I watched a video in Driver's Ed where they filmed a senior citizen driving; the mistakes made (and near-misses) were incredible, even though the driver thought he had done perfectly well.
I don't get why it's so wrong to ask that people must pass a driving test past a certain age. Aging happens, and with age comes a decline in things like eyesight...why can't we just accept this fact and keep everyone as safe as possible?
2007-10-19 20:27:21 · answer #2 · answered by xo379 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Driving lessons was the best thing I ever did. When I was living at home, we never had a car and took the bus everywhere. My husband bought our first car six months after we were married and I continued to bus it back and forth to work. I got my licence when I was 28 and passed the first time. Driving is freedom from dependency on others. I've never had an accident or a ticket.
2007-10-20 01:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by Donna 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably too true for comfort.
I felt that way last week, driving back and forth to Pa. I got so tired sometimes, and I think I must have really been weaving, because folks all around me gave me lots of room. I made it back safely, but I expect I left some frazzled nerves behind when I got off the interstate.
I think right now I have a variation of jet lag, because I seem to need a lot of sleep. 'Night, yawl.
2007-10-19 22:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by felines 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm not there yet, but I know if I live long enough I will be. I'm sure the independence a driver's license affords a person is hard to give up.
2007-10-19 21:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by luvspbr2 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Can identify with some, less the age, -- if I don't voluntarily hang it up what the time comes, I have two outspoken younguns that have vowed to do the dastardly deed. Good post and good read.
2007-10-20 11:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
GW: You are describing all the people
that live in my Senior Apartment
Complex. Me, not included. I gave
my car away to a sweet young man who needed transportation to work.
Besides, I was getting too mad at all
the logging trucks and tried to run them off the road, so thought I should give it up.
2007-10-19 22:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I just hope the Good Lord gives me the wisdom to give up my license when the time comes..and I have the sense to listen..
2007-10-20 01:25:30 · answer #8 · answered by jst4pat 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
aint that the truth. every day is a new adventure once you wake up alive. then you find new aches and pains. more things you cant do. more things you cant eat. more things you cant see or hear. it just never ends. so exciting but never boring. glad you can still drive and get out and about. but watch out for those young drivers , they scare me to death.
2007-10-19 20:43:37 · answer #9 · answered by Aloha_Ann 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My friend works for Home Health and she took her patient down to get her driver's license re-newed and she was legally blind and they re-newed it.
2007-10-19 21:19:19 · answer #10 · answered by Kwe' 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋