For a long time, I avoided talking openly about the memory and cognitive difficulties that had been accumulating quietly over my mid-fifties. Like many adults navigating the cognitive dimension of aging, I had normalized the name-forgetting, the sentence-level word retrieval…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my deteriorating vision. Like many professionals in their late forties spending eight to ten hours daily in front of screens, I had normalized the progressive blurring at the edges of my…
For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my prostate symptoms. Like many men over 50 who experience the gradual erosion of bladder control that accompanies prostate changes, I had quietly normalized the three to four nighttime bathroom trips,…