{"id":131,"date":"2008-03-14T01:19:24","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/2008\/03\/14\/i-am-not-bionic-yet-but-i-am-slowly-falling-apart\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T01:19:24","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:19:24","slug":"i-am-not-bionic-yet-but-i-am-slowly-falling-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/it\/2008\/03\/14\/i-am-not-bionic-yet-but-i-am-slowly-falling-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"I am not bionic (yet) but I am slowly falling apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Calibri\">I am slowly falling apart.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>As you can see from the sub title of this blog, I am 63 years old.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am not even a boomer.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>They started being born about nine months after me.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am an actual WWII baby (that is world war two for those of you so young that you think WWII is some kind of abbreviation for texting).<span>\u00a0 <\/span>While,<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I think of myself as being 36 and not 63, my body is telling me I am wrong.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I am starting to get arthritis.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I have a bulged disk (L4-L5) and now a problem with my right thumb that is really scaring me (remember I play piano).<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I work out about 10 hours a week) and try to look like a buff version of Einstein (I am doing better with the Einstein part then the buff part).<span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I have not yet had to have <span>\u00a0<\/span>any body parts replaced like some of my friends ( a knee here, a hip there), although I do have a piece of high tech plastic under my belly button, but surely this will happen eventually.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>So l think I will wear out slowly and may be a member of the <span>\u00a0<\/span>last generation that will have these problems.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Right behind me is the wave of the baby boomers with massive resources and eventually a massive need.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I bet through a combination of genetic engineering, nano technology, and other medical \u201cadvances\u201d, this generation will be able to go at least 75 years before they creak in the morning.<\/font><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am slowly falling apart.\u00a0 As you can see from the sub title of this blog, I am 63 years old.\u00a0 I am not even a boomer.\u00a0 They started being born about nine months after me.\u00a0 I am an actual WWII baby (that is world war two for those of you so young that you 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