I've got a little arthritis that I have to deal with. I was 6 feet 7 when I started, and I've shrunk up a little bit. I'm probably 6-5 or so now. But up here at 82, I feel pretty good. I'm sticking in there.
I was once six feet tall, but at 85, I'm now five feet four.
As the spinal cord increases, it makes you taller. However, after landing on the Earth, you shrink a bit. What was worrisome was that some of the wrinkles, which had disappeared there, came back.
I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
I don't have hair anymore. I've shrunk. I'm barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I'm a grinder.
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
