Some gripes, now I'm officially a geezer. (I wrote "old geezer" at first, but then discovered "old" redundant.)
- Losing the ability to grasp small or tricky objects, like some sealed plastic bags where there's about 1/8" which you can grab. Or prescription pills which fall on the floor and have to be picked up.
- Losing muscle memory at the keyboard. In the good old days I could rest my hands on the laptop keyboard, or in front of the desktop keyboard, and my fingers would find the home row and the home keys--I could start typing and have it make sense on the screen, or if not making sense, at least form English words. These days I'm not able to do that.
- Loss of hearing. I do wear hearing aids in the evening. I've this odd mixture of disability--can hear some sounds with my left ear and others with my right. Hearing has slowly declined over the years, slowly, for which I'm grateful. My uncle was quite deaf when he was still in his 60's, but I'm far from that bad.
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