I think there was another thread about this, but I'm too old to figure out how to use the search function here.


I got a PS5 last week. Started using it and after 2 days had to stop because I suffered an injury while playing. It comes with a free game built in called Astro's Playland. It's basically a platformer designed to show off all the features on the new controller. You have to do some physical movements with the controller but nothing too crazy. Have to tilt it and move it side to side in some sections. After a couple days of doing that my R elbow epicondylitis flared up and now I feel like I have to go get a cortisone shot.


Same thing happened months ago when I attempted to shoot a basketball for the first time in 20 years. Took a 3 pointer and immediately had searing pain in my elbow.


Getting old not fun. Especially when your body took a beating from sports over 40 years.

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You think it's bad now, wait until all your sports injuries become arthritic. And they will. There's no getting around it.

I keep telling myself I want to dunk on a 10' rim just one more time.

This is probably a really stupid goal.

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I used to think that way. Now I would love to just go crazy on an 8.5 hoop with a mini ball like when I was a kid. I'd be wiped after 5 minutes.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Oh it's already here. The benefit of having had 7 spine surgeries is you get to jump the line on getting your arthritis.

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Man, that's awful. I don't know how it works for you seeing how back pain is the worst, but for me, I kinda get used to the pain, but it's the constant reminder that your body parts just don't work anymore that's depressing. Like always grabbing the bannister on stairs and actually USING it to get up and down.

I need reading glasses

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I'm sorry you're blind.

Not for this site.

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Same here. Wife who works in an eye clinic and her doctors keep pushing me for a partial bi-focal and I am fighting it.

That and my knees. I need another ACL repair. I've been going on several years with a torn one in my left knee (and who knows what other damage is in there), which I tore right after finishing rehab from ACL surgery on the right knee. Needless to say, getting up off the ground or even out of a chair, I'm like an old man creaking and groaning...

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Certified Dirty Old Man

Switched to multifocal contacts a couple of years ago. Just can’t see details like I was once able to when working up close with something. Sprained an ankle badly 2 summers ago. Still doesn’t feel right. When I wake up in the morning there is a ton of snap crackle and pop with not a rice Krispy to be seen.

After I posted that, I got up to go to the little boys room and listen/felt that knee "click" with each movement.

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Certified Dirty Old Man

Arthritis loves that you are putting off fixing it.

I know, I know...

It's not the surgery. It was the rehab that I dreaded.

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Certified Dirty Old Man

I'd struggle to dunk on a 6' hoop

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yea it sucks, but like you said you get used to it and the changes it makes in your life. There was a time in my life when I didn't turn on a TV for days at a time, maybe weeks. Now I watch several hours every day.

You definitely get used to the pain. But you also appreciate how screwed you are. For instance, whenever I have to bend over for any reason at all I first have to have an inner debate with myself to decide if whatever I am bending for is worth the pain it is going to cause me. More often than not I decide that bending over to pick up that piece of garbage or that quarter I just dropped or even tying a shoe isn't worth the shot of pain it will produce and end up skipping it. You do that long enough and you just accept that as being part of your normal life.

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The talk of banister dependence is a humbling thing that I never saw coming. But then again wondering what's going to be today's primary pain concern is a daily thing and has been for years.

And then the following anxiety doesn't help.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

I almost slipped in the shower yesterday. Also, I'm having work done in my house and they have this adhesive covering on the stairs that has been there for weeks now. If I wear my slippers I inch down the stairs as I don't have any railing and have almost slipped more than a few times in the slippers. I'm telling you, it doesn't take much these days to have a bad accident.

Don't think I mentioned this here but over the winter there was an incident. We have an old house, build in 1938. There are stairs to the basement and there is a pantry closet on that same stairway. The landing area between the pantry and the stairs are less than 3 feet and the pantry doors open out so you have to back up to gain entry. I was trying to get in there to grab something for the dog and took half a step backwards to look on a lower shelf and that was all she wrote. I slid all the way down the stairs on my back and ended up in a heap on the bottom of the stairs. Was really lucky that I stayed on my back and didn't have my legs go up over my head and tumble down. My wife came running down from upstairs and saw me at the bottom and thought was I done for. Luckily enough I was able to dust myself off and felt fine after a day or so of being sore.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

Yikes. You got really lucky.

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Haha, I spent an entire winter trying to dunk on a 10 foot rim. I was doing all sorts of exercises to increase my vertical. I could always get above the rim up to my wrist despite being a tad under 5'9", but I could never fully palm a basketball.

The high school gym had one of those vertical leap devices where you hit the thing to see how high you can jump. I struggled to get 9 1/4 a few years. I doubt I could even get to 9 feet anymore.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Denis had some big hops!

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Self promoted attention whore at work here

I used the line, "I have been coaching here longer than you have been alive" at practice last week for the first time.

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The last time I could dunk on a 10 foot rim, Bush was POTUS.

HW Bush

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Clinton for me, first term.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

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My apprentice makes me feel old. I had to write a test for him and one question in the middle was intended to be a moment of levity to reduce stress. It was "what is the first rule of fight club" he wrote "never give up?". When I asked him wtf he said he never heard of fight club.
He never heard of Ray Charles.
In school he never had to write in cursive.
Shit like that.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Yea, that's a light bulb going off.

One thing for me, is seeing people die off that were popular in my days as a kid (70's through the 80's). Listening to MeTV FM and hearing stuff that you remember when they were new.

For me, I was a big "Cars" fan. So when Ric passed away, I was like WTF!!!

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Certified Dirty Old Man

So, he's in fight club.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami