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Weird Stuff Happens

Weird stuff happens to your body when you get old.  And nobody warns you about it. One day you look at your hands and your feet and see that your fingers and toes are gnarled—gnarled!  When did that happen?  Why did that happen?  What did I do or not do to make that happen?  Maybe, it is as simple as I kept breathing. Nobody warned me about these things.  I knew, I mean it is commonly repeated over and over that your body wears out and you get aches and pains and your memory goes.  Okay, I get that, but this stuff is different. My hair is falling out for no reason. And there are strange pockets and folds and dips and ridges in my body.  I swear they were not there yesterday.  When I look in the mirror one side of my body looks different from the other side.  What does this mean?  What is gong on?  I always had oily skin and now I need to slather moisturizer on from head to toe—TWICE a day.  My skin, which ...