Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think I've taken care of myself pretty well. I exercise regularly--jogging or swimming for an hour or so three times a week. I eat fairly healthfully--a lot of fruit and vegetables. I have a loving family and a stimulating job. But I am at about the age when human bodies, no matter how well cared for, begin to lose the youthful vitality most of us at one time thought would be with us for the duration. Besides the obvious changes like hair loss and wrinkling, the lungs' capacity declines; joints start to wear out; bones, especially...
...mention my concern over my frequent need to urinate, which I have assumed to be related to my prostate. As in many men my age, the status of my prostate is top priority, the site of the most common cancer in males. If I were a woman, breast cancer would be of similar concern. In a 25-year-old male, the prostate gland is the size of a grape; in a 50-year-old, it is the size of a chestnut because of its thickened walls. The enlarged gland constricts the urethra that it encircles, diminishing the ability to urinate...
...each to affirm for audiologist Mary Ann Karnuta that I have heard the sound. Two minutes later, I am incredulous when she shows me a printout of my responses. Having failed to hear a range of high-toned pitches, I learn I have mild symptoms of presbycusis--"old-age hearing," Karnuta informs me--caused by gradual loss of the 30,000 tiny hairlike cells in the inner ear that respond to sound by signaling the auditory nerve to send electrical impulses to the brain. The noise of daily life, from loud music to jet planes to machinery, contributes to presbycusis...
...when there's nothing left to blow, Anne Spellacy, a registered nurse, tells me to keep blowing. The results are good; the volume of air, known as forced vital capacity (FVC), expelled by my lungs measures 5.16 liters per sec., 109% of what is predicted for a man my age, weight and height. Pulmonary capacity goes down with age, which is why older people tend to get out of breath faster than the young. A typical 30-year-old man of my height and weight would have an FVC of 5.63. Even two years makes a difference...
Business cards are getting an upgrade for the digital age. Now image-conscious digerati can replace their old paper versions with plastic cards that pop into any CD-ROM drive and play a multimedia presentation. Sold by Digital Card in New York City, the wallet-size CD-ROMs can hold as much as 18 MB of data or 2 1/2 min. of video, and cost $1.50 to $3.50 apiece...