If U live to be 80 ......

[nai]

I dont intend to let my PA ruin my life even when I get to 80, I will treat it as I do now, It just one of thoughs inconveniences.

[Jo]

hmmm ... that's 23 years off for me. By then I expect to have been having monthly injections of raptiva or efalixumbabflexivudm (or whatever it's other name is!) and not to have any p in evidence!! So far I've lived with my p for 44 years. It would be nice NOT to have to get to 50 years with it!!

but . .. on the other hand .... will I miss it?? will my skin get dry and wrinkly because i don't have to moisturise? will I miss the morning back massages as my other half applies the moisuriser? will I miss the days when I hunch up at home and be a slob with the TV and stuff because my skin's not up to much. Worst of all, will I have to get really elegant and skinny because there'll be no excuse to avoid little t shirts and shorts???  

[Guy]

or efalixumbabflexivudm (or whatever it's other name is!)

[SJ]

Who makes up these names for drugs huh?

Right on Jo!



SJ

[Hanna]

well with all these skin thinning creams by the time i'm 80 i will just be a skeleton

[Luvvi]

If I get to 80 and have all my other faculties in good working order - to hell with the p! Who knows maybe next week I'll wake up and it will have gone of its own accord anyway, it kind of appeared very suddenly  so maybe it'll have the courtesy of going the same way!!!

Liz  

[mattellie]

well with all these skin thinning creams by the time i'm 80 i will just be a skeleton

LOL Pags.........how true

[claireLF]

P only bothers me at the mo because I am still concerned about my appearance.    Haven't come across that many vain 80 yr olds  

[Fif]

My grandma edeveloped P in her 93rd year and boy was she angry about it. Not upset just bl**dy angry that at that age her body could still do things to surprise her. But she got to see a whole new part of the hospital and meet the nice handsome young dermotologist man. (Her words not mine).

After a while i think the fact that her body could still do something unusual was a bit of a comfort in a strange way, you don't expect that many new things at the age of 93.

She died the following year, still with p and still fairly peed off about it.