I once sprained my ankle answering the front door when I was 20 years old. However, I got a stress fracture in my foot just walking around Wales at 40. The stress fracture took longer to heal than the sprain and it was way more insulting since I was just walking 
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I had plenty of falls over the years but only broke bones (2x) post menopause! Both were stupid trips but the dexascan and my docs insist the breaks are just flukes.
The year after I broke my foot I got a stress reaction in my other foot (walking on a different surface with improper shoes). So two years in a row I was in a boot around the same period of time, just different feet.
Overall, though, I guess I’m pretty lucky in comparison with others.
When assistant professors look the same to you as grad students…
When you realize that you lived the majority of your life without the technological advances that you now consider a requirement.
When you find yourself thinking “that’s nothing; when I was young, well…” at least three times a week.
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Well, fortunately, no breaks recently—just my 3rd cold in 4 months, after a few years of no infections due to hibernating for covid. Boo! I even wear a mask most times indoors.
When you can enter higher age divisions in athletic competitions.
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Your friends act shocked that you are not yet on Medicare / Silversneakers. (Hubby is 7 years older, and most of our friends are his age or older. )
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You see a restaurant advertising “in business since 1993” and think “big deal, newcomer.”
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Another sign of getting “more mature” is that you want your doctors to be this age…so they outlive you, and you don’t need to find new ones…again.
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I want a Doctor that watched Seinfeld during its original run or I fear we won’t be able to effectively communicate.
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When someone says 20 years ago and you think “oh in the 80’s” and then you realize they mean 2004. I know this has been made into a meme but it was true before I ever saw that.
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No Doogie Howser🤣
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When the kid across the street gets a new and very loud motor scooter he likes to ride up and down the street in front of your home on Saturday morning at 8:00 a.m. and you realize YOU are the geriatric “get off my lawn” neighbor that kids like to irritate.
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When all six of your grandchildren are either in college now or have graduated from college.
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Physicians sometimes retire or move away, so them dying is not the only reason you need to find new ones.
But if you do need to find new ones, the ones with available space for new patients are usually younger ones recently out of residency.
You read obituaries.
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You are more interested in getting rid of things than getting things.
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Must be because we were all humming “Dust in the Wind”. One of the few live concerts I’ve seen was the band Kansas…. college road trip to SPAC in Saratoga NY.
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My daughters were blessed to be given my mom’s 80’s track suit! They are annoyed I didn’t save my HS wardrobe (graduated in 1985 from a NJ HS so full on 80’s fashion and hair).
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