I was a normal kid - no allergies or asthma or anything beyond the usual measles and chicken pox. There were kids who were always sick (it wasn't their fault) but I wasn't one of them. I was not a chucklehead daredevil alpha male (I'm more a Theta or Epsilon).
I've found as I age, over time I get less and less masculine - no more 2 pots of coffee a day - maybe a few a month and the rest of the time it's green tea. I can't use bar soap or I itch all day - it has to be bodywash. We angle more towards the sick kids every day. Man, I'd hate to see how they are doing in their 40s....
TF
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Greetings and felicitations:
I was one of those 'sick' kids.
Had allergies all the time - I, too, was diagnosed at 14 with Scheurmann's Disease in my vertebrae - essentially it just a variation of scholiosis (curvature of the spine). Had double pneumonia and mononucleosis when I was 18. Meanwhile working a job (Wendy's) and going to high school and getting pummled in my science classes with marks with so much hard work.
We get better with age for certain things. Allergies are lessened -- some creep up still... but it isn't as bad.
Mostly hair is getting grayer - mostly through stress and the radiation outside (only moderate humour in that last statement).
Muscles are getting creakier... they hurt more from work from olden days... but I have my own cleaning company where physical labour is a daily thing.
All in all - I feel better than when I was a kid. But I have to watch my limits... some of the wisdom acquired through hard times as a kid.
My 2¢.
Cheers...
Steven
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