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Just endured my ‘annual’ check up. Guess what? No issues. Aorta and lung scans...No Problemo!

At 70, this is no surprise. I am blessed with good genes. 50 years smoking and I eat what I want. I know, this is not because of good efforts. I am blessed.

I hope you all have similar results. Live your life!

congrats on your checkup .... because of excellent medical care and apparently some solid genetics, at 74 I'm still getting around .... had I of been born 50 years earlier, I'd of had a much shorter lifespan

Glad to hear of your good health results! I am not a smoker but I am a user of smokeless tobacco. No issues that have been proven to my use of it so far.

rugrat wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 12, 2020 5:36 pm

Glad to hear of your good health results! I am not a smoker but I am a user of smokeless tobacco. No issues that have been proven to my use of it so far.

Same here rugrat, in my 77 yrs, I have used every type of tobacco known to man. Quit smoking back inn '76, still chew pouch
everyday. Quit that a few times, always came back.
My checkups at the VA & my private dr, all are good. If I make it thru 2020, I'll say it's doing pretty good.

Glad to hear , some smoke and drink and live to 100. Some health nuts die in there 20s.

Cofisher wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 12, 2020 4:59 pm

Just endured my ‘annual’ check up. Guess what? No issues. Aorta and lung scans...No Problemo!

At 70, this is no surprise. I am blessed with good genes. 50 years smoking and I eat what I want. I know, this is not because of good efforts. I am blessed.

I hope you all have similar results. Live your life!

Ist it that Nebraska the good life

Yup. It really is. I miss the mountains tho.

Based on my lifestyle, I t makes sense that I may have been gone already, however, as a heavy smoker for many years, and a drinker, I count my blessings. I did quit smoking almost a year and a half ago though.

Still a youngster at 66 but Doc says great health. Never smoked and weight in check. No medications needed yet except one cold Coors Light per day well maybe 2 on a good day!
Congrats to you that are a bit older!

I will be 70 in 2 weeks. I am hoping that my family genes can carry me a bit longer. My great grandparents on my father's side lived to 99 and 98. My mother's parents lived well into there 90's. My mother is 95 living in a nursing home and just survived coved . I have my share of problems so I need all the help I can get,

Jim

I turned 62 in July, my Mom is 82, still going strong and still working at a regular job, my Dad passed away at the age of 73 due to COPD complications in 2005.

Congrats Forty kick that Coors light with a shot of whiskey and you will make it to 80

Congrats and enjoy the good report. I draw from a mixed gene pool of good and bad. On my mothers side 85+ was the norm, but my father passed at 57, his brother at 56 and their sister lived the longest to 64. All heavy smokers and all heart attacks. I quit in 1976. I've been taking medication for high cholesterol for 20 years, had a stent put in 11 years ago and in the last year developed Afib. So my last general check up at 71 looked good, but that is all do to the various pills I take. Just have to keep on truckin.

Paul

I turned 67 this last Monday. Both sides of the family got to 70+. My Dad and his father both died from stroke. I have COPD from my smoking like an idiot for 22 years in my youth. I have some blood pressure issues and a bad thyroid. I am doing pretty good for the shape I'm in.

Live Long and Prosper

Muddy Waters 62

All y’all need to do what ‘they’ say. Not what I do.
Stay healthy, keep on. Live your life!

I think, and it is just a guess, that my Dad got his COPD issues from being a smoker for most of his life and also being a welder and breathing in all the welding fumes for most of his life.

Well, I'm eighty now and still ambulatory. Wonder of wonders. At dinner last night my Wife asked if I ever thought I'd reach this age.
Heck, I wasn't sure I'd make thirty. Quit smoking twenty years ago but I still like my martinis in the evening and a cold beer with dinner.
I was a wild child, started driving tractor trailer over the road when I was sixteen, Vietnam Regular Army when I was 24, High stress job from 28 to 60,
retired and still kicking. I am blessed, I know.

Back in the 70s I was taking a CPR refresher course, and they had a longevity test from the Red Cross. It was designed to predict how long you would
live. Everyone laughed because I was the only one in the class that smoked. Guess what? I was predicted to live the longest. The key was how old
were your Grandparents when they died. Mine were all in their nineties. Big surprise.

cooperhawk wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 14, 2020 9:42 am

I was predicted to live the longest. The key was how old were your Grandparents when they died. Mine were all in their nineties.

I've long been convinced that the major factor in longevity is to be born with the right genes

The funny thing was they didn't care a whit about how old your parents were at death. Course at that time most of ours were probably still alive.