This is a pretty fair rendition of what my skin on my forehead looks like at the moment. Yes. I have a fringe to cover it
There are some words you never ever want to hear a dermatologist mention. Clearly melanoma and malignant are chief amongst those but allow me to be superficial for a second and add another. Trust me, you never want to hear your dermatologist say “oh it’s only a barnacle” as she examines your skin through a super magnifying lens which she actually puts to the side when she sees your barnacle. Something that big does not need magnification.
Barnacles are found on the bottom of ships. And on whales.
To be fair the barnacle had another much more sophisticated medical term which I can’t even remember now but I’m sure if I were to google it there would be pictures of the bottom of boats. Of whales and of hideous, dehydrated, lumpy, old person skin.
The truth is although “barnacles” are a little bit genetic (my dad has beautiful warm open arms but they look a lot like very weathered boat oars) they are also a “side effect” of age.
As I adjusted to this little snippet of news from the dermatologist she went on to examine the rest of my body, I had a melanoma many years ago and I am fastidious about having my skin checked. A couple of times she stopped to examine something a little closer and invariably she would brush it off with a quick “oh it’s just an age spot”.
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Sometimes I still feel like I’m playing house, often I hear my child call me mommy and I have to remind myself that it’s not my mom he wants – I really am old enough (and then some) to be the mother of a 12 year old.
I am still surprised when I’m not asked for ID and that people don’t gasp when I tell them how long I’ve been married. Or how long I have been out of school. I am always shocked when I meet a professional person old enough to be my child – doctors especially. Seriously, how young are doctors these days?
My body is getting older and sometimes my eyes are too – when I see “the youth of today” dressed in pants that hang on the ground – the waist, not the hem, and I will admit to getting irritated by people speaking in gangster talk and stuff but my mind is still very, very young. And I can’t help wondering when I am going to feel older.
When I was a little girl I used to look at my mother and almost admire how old she was. When she had friends over and I was shooed out the room I used to imagine that she was having lofty, intelligent conversations about very important worldly matters. Now that I am the same age as her I have friends over and we talk about how much weight we’ve put on, we talk about Offspring and where we should eat dinner. We talk about our kids a lot and we laugh at really stupid, immature jokes. There is nothing lofty or supremely intelligent about our conversations and it leads me to wonder if I just hang with immature people or maybe that’s what my mother WAS talking about. She just seemed so … old and I don’t .
Are barnacles my sign of maturity or does my mind still have a long way to catch up to my skin. Is age a number or a feeling?
My Darling Granny lived to 86 and even at that age told me she didn’t consider herself to be old. She didn’t feel old. She didn’t act old either. She danced a Scottish reel at her 80th birthday party and also boogied to ABBA. It’s all about attitude. And maybe a little bit about being preserved in alcohol 🙂
Your grandmother sounds so cool. I like the sound of her attitude as much as I like the fact that she was preserved in alcohol
I think age is more an emotion than an actual number, because I often say “I FEEL old” the same way I’d say “I FEEL happy/sad/annoyed” etc. Stress and worry, coupled with a bit of exhaustion and PMS are catalysts for my feeling older. Exercise makes me feel younger (until the next day when everything hurts and I feel old.) Eating ice-cream and talking with friends also seems to halt my ageing process momentarily. I think how old you feel and how young people perceive you depends how you carry yourself and how you live your life. Some days you feel young and vibrant. Today, for me, is not one of those days *potters off in search of a Bex and a lie down*…..
You are right – some days I feel really old but it’s more that I feel frustrated and tired so it’s a feeling rather than a number.
Hope your day improved and you are feeling young again xxxx
Mine described them as “age warts” – equally underwhelming …
My dog has age warts! But he’s disguised them cleverly with hair and beauty. And no – I am not comparing you to a dog but I haven’t seen your warts so I am assuming they are pretty well hidden too xxx