Personal hygiene

Discussion about not being the smelly old person and other bodily topics.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:04

Today we're talking about personal hygiene and how important it is as we get older. And uh we wanted to share some stuff with you that this might get a little naughty or a little uncomfortable for some people, but um yeah, yeah. We we don't want you to go around with the old people smell and that that can be a bad smell.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

And as you get older, you know, I I have a Halloween costume that I made one year. It's called Uncontrollable Flatulence. So we all everybody farts. Everybody farts. And in almost everybody. Oh, I bet you do. You might do it in your sleep. That's people that say, Oh, I don't ever do in your sleep.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Yes, my mother, oh god, my mother drove me nuts. And now I'm my mother, and and that's that's really a stretch. So my mom, when she got old, she was she was um very ill and and heavily medicated and stuff like that. And she'd kind of flop, you know, flit around the house a little bit. And every step she took, she'd toot. You know, and it was just my my kids were younger at the time, and they're going, Oh my god, mom, what are you doing? You know, tell grandma to stop. I said she can't help it. Little did I know. Oh my gosh. So, yeah, I don't uh you gotta learn how to hide it, or I don't know what you do to. I suppose there's medicines you can get. They say they're gonna be able to get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

They've got the gas acts and stuff like that. But I thought they were sometimes you just sit and your body is uh giving off that gas, and and it's gotta go somewhere. And it does. And the beauty of it, every in every culture, farting is funny. That's true. It is. Everybody giggles or laughs or something. It's when people take it to the excess of going, oh, look at this, you know, in a big it's like third grade boys. Oh, yeah. They're doing the bodily, bodily functions and the sounds. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it's always fun to make fun of your grandparents. Oh, grandma tooted, or hit the dog every what was that? Every time grandma toots, the dog gets beat.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

That's not me, that's the dog. My dad would say, Damn, that floor is squeaking again. Oh, barking spiders everywhere. True story. Oh my gosh. So, yeah, that's something you have to learn to deal with. And you either just kind of roll your eyes and go, yep. Or you just say, excuse me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

And go on. Oops, sorry, excuse me. I mean, because sometimes you can't help it. No, you can't. I seriously can't. Sometimes it happens in opportune times when you're going, okay. I was at I was at work standing in a circle with co-workers, and it's the first time I'd ever been embarrassed by uh, and we're sitting talking, and out of the blue, boop, out of my bum, and was like in front of all these people. I had no warning, nothing. Really? Nothing. And it just went boop and went, oh. And of course, they all started howling. I said, excuse me, I didn't even know that was coming. It was not knocking along the way. Who knew? And it just has gotten worse.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

But there's something about a woman doing it than anybody else. I know, I know. As a woman, you're just like, oh my God. Oh my god. And it happens, but sometimes just an oh, excuse me.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Yeah. And you said when you have old friends, you just, yeah, you oh, you're all tooting at the same time. It's like, well, oh, shouldn't it happen? Like you said earlier, oh, I don't do that. Well, yeah. We all do. You'd blow up like you you'd blow up if you didn't do that. You'd be in the ER. Oh, I hurt so bad. There are times I wish I had instead of having to embarrass myself. And sometimes it's the food you eat, sometimes it's the medication you're on. Yeah. There's a million reasons.

SPEAKER_01 3:56

And your body is it also, I mean, your muscles don't hold anything in anymore. You know, everything's the worst thing is ever to try to hold because that shit gets worse.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Oh my god. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

See, forty is funny. I can't even breathe. That's the other thing you're telling me to exercise, girls. When you're laughing about forage, you can't breathe.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

It's when they are foul and you know if you're foul. It's like if you feel it coming on and you know you're foul that day. Oh, excuse me. Go into the phone or I'm gonna go over here and just I gotta go out to my phone. If you know, yeah, excuse me. Let me remove myself. Oh, it's terrible. But those silent sneakers, you're making me cough. God dang. Pretty soon I'll be sorry. Not really. Well, it kind of comes and goes, you know.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Sometimes you go through a period where you're pretty lucky. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

I went on a diet one time and I lost weight, but I was so gassy, I couldn't even go, I couldn't go in public at all.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Really?

SPEAKER_00 5:18

Oh, it was awful. They and uh I so I went through all the ingredients of the stuff that I was at it was one of those that they send you the food and stuff. And so I went through all the ingredients, and it was one of the sugar alcohols that they have to sweeten stuff, and they had it in almost everything they had. Oh my gosh. Everything had it. And so I eliminated that. I didn't have I was no longer tootin' rooting in.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Yeah, I think that it's usually food-based for the most part and medicine-based.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Yeah, but they do have gas X and you know, all the stuff in um like GERD and heartburn and all that good stuff. Papaya enzyme, they're like little things that you chew, and they kind of help with that too. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff, yeah. But don't get too crazy on all the stuff that they're trying to sell you. You gotta be careful, yeah. Really careful. Because some stuff doesn't agree with if you're on medication, doesn't agree with it. And yeah, who knew if you're on uh what was that on statins you can't drink grapefruit juice? Yeah, I knew that. Well, I like fresca. I didn't want to. I don't think there's any grapefruit in it.

SPEAKER_01 6:21

It says grapefruit flavor.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

Flavor.

SPEAKER_01 6:25

Nothing is real anymore. But yeah, yeah. Do I really know that? You know, the hygiene is is it's hard. Sorry, I keep coughing. I don't mean to do that. Um, but I think it's all that laughing. That deep laughing. Yeah, is the you know, take a shower. Oh, you'll feel so much. I know that's hard. Yeah, because for some physically that stuff is really difficult. But you don't want to smell like an old man. No, no, an old man, if you're listening, you need to shower.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

And if you can uh change your bathroom to where you get one of those uh shower seats, if you know, doing that, and the handheld shower can save you lots of stuff. That can really save you. And uh um uh what I would always tell my uh patients when I was working, because that had a hard time breathing, so taking a shower was very difficult, and not trying to dry off with a towel, just get a great big terry cloth robe and you put that on, and you sit there and you just sit and you know think about your breathing because it for some people it's very difficult to do that. Yeah, but it's like I tell my grandsons, you don't want to be the stinky boy in school. No, you don't want to be stinky kids. Oh, and usually a girlfriend fixes that. And I watched a game show one time where they had uh young people and old people, and they blindfolded them, and then they were to smell people, and about 90% of the time they could smell the older person, just smell different. So I'm not a fragrance person because I worked where fragrances would bother people, so I don't have a uh signature scent, but sometimes in the stores I'll go and I'll follow some lady in the store just smelling her scent, and I'm too afraid to say, Oh, what are you wearing? Because I had a roommate once that um she she wore um a scent that I on her was I thought smelled so good. I don't even think they make it anymore. Reeve gauche. At the time it was like you know, she she kind of and um I put it on, it smelled like a cat had peed all over me. Yeah, so I I've never been a scent for myself. I love scents on other people, but same with me. And my grandson's now we're getting into calogany. They like a little and oh you can smell him coming down the stairs.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

My eight-year-old grandson came over the other day, and you know, he's just in fact, he he he has a new stepmom because she she's been there a couple of years now. But I said, you know, when they first got together, I said, So I said, How's it going? I said, Are you enjoying her? He goes, Yeah, she's great. He goes, but Gigi, she makes me take a shower every day. And I said, You're kidding. And he said, No, he goes, and sometimes she makes me take a bath. I'm thinking, okay, we'll wait 10 more years and see if we can get you out of the shower. Yeah, because that's all you want to do is be good, smell good. But he comes over eight years old and he's got cologne on. Yeah, because his his big brother, who is uh 19, uh wears cologne sometimes, and he asked him if he could try it on to come to Gigi's house for dinner. And it was just like smelling going, you smell just like your brother. And it was so funny, he goes, Do I smell good?

SPEAKER_00 9:50

I thought, oh, you're young to be worried about the oh, but the manly scents now are really good. I mean, guys smell really good. Oh my gosh. Oh it's not uh what was that stuff? Old spice and oh what was that one?

SPEAKER_01 10:05

There was another one too. Oh my gosh. Everybody wore it. Irish something Irish Spring was. No, this is soap.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

This is um, I know what you're talking about. Oh my god, they all weren't in like just brute right up into your right up into your spice. Oh my god. Curl your eyelashes.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Well, I'm not gonna hang out with him much. Yeah. I get an old spice over that. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I do think the smell that people walk around with is critical. And I think that physically it's really a good idea to take a shower or a bath because it does tire you out, it does cause you to move in ways that maybe you wouldn't otherwise. So you're getting a little exercise out of the deal, too. Yeah. And a friend who always shaved her legs, always, every day. And I said, Why do you shave your legs every day? And she said, Because it forces me to bend over and to stand on one foot and all stuff. And I thought, what a brilliant idea. And she was like, 30. I thought, that is awesome.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Remember when I punched a hole through my shower wall when I put my foot up to shave my leg? And we had a friend that said, How did you get your leg that high? Well, I had to be able to see it. Yeah, that's the other thing.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Eyes. Everybody's blind when you holy macaroni. And your glasses steam up, yeah, and you can't see.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Or they get so dirty. And I look at mine, I try to clean my, and then you look at somebody and they've got nothing but fingerprints, and they're and they're thinking, Oh, I must have cataracts. No, you need to clean your glasses. Yeah, I mean, just simple things like that. In your teeth, brush your teeth. And if you have to take them out and put them in a jar, brush your teeth.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

Do it, do it. Yeah. But my teeth right now is crazy because um, you know, I think they've gotten a little bit porous, which I've never had, I've never had trouble with food sticking in my teeth. And now I eat and I got food sticking there, and I'm like, what the heck? So now I carry a dry toothbrush in my car. After I eat, I brush my teeth in the car. Well, they have all those great little picks and stuff. I try to kind of, you know.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

But then I got the goo I gotta deal with.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Toss that. Yeah, it was it was not good.

SPEAKER_00 12:09

The other thing I really like now are the personal wipes. So if you can't get in the shower and they've got dry hairspray, yeah. But if you can't get in the shower, you can at least take one of those those wipes, and they have makeup wipes that are have lotion on them. So there's there's easier ways to do it. And it's they're not that expensive to to try to do that. But I noticed my skin gets so dry. So if I don't have something on it, then I'm unfortunate.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

And I don't like a lot of gunk on my skin. I'm not a gunker. I I just so but the the wipes are kind of all delicate kind of a way to get some moisture. But I've never had dry skin in my life. I've been oily oily. I've just always had oily skin, and now it's like, what is this stuff?

SPEAKER_00 12:51

Oh, that's flaky skin. Yeah, well, I made the mistake years back getting a 10 times the magnification mirror. So I will go over every inch of my face to look for some imperfection or a hair. Oh my god, hairs, guys. Don't have hair on their head, it's on my chin. You know, I know.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

But you can there's places you can go, they'll zap it off. I know. My friend did that, but man, she had to do she. I think she's still going. I swear it's been 25 years, and she has you know, them do the laser or whatever. Yeah, get it zapped. And they didn't do that, but it was expensive, and she had to drive all the way to two hours to get there. It's like, no, no, thank you. They probably have something here locally now, but back then they didn't, so yeah. But the hair that is interesting.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

You go, oh my god, I got or you look at a beer. And if you haven't looked in one of those mirrors, you go to a store and you go, Oh, I've always thought I'd get waah, get one of these. Oh my gosh, I don't want one. What is that person? But the nice thing is people our age can't see any of that.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

That's true. You can't see it unless you're hitting on somebody that's 50.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

You're always unless they got the light just right, you know. Glistening off the, you know, that six-inch hair in your chin. But if you're a good friend, you here, let me get that for you.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

You've got a six-inch hair.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

Let me put a roller on that. We'll curl it up. Nobody cares.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

That is, oh dear God, between loss of hair, between uh medical procedures that cause you to have to shave off your hair, illness that causes you to lose your hair, and then you have natural thinning. And my hair was always natural curly, major natural curly. Of course, I spent half my life ironing it, putting it on juice cans, whatever it took to make it smooth. And then finally, one day I went, Why am I doing this? I mean, I had great curly hair. It was awesome. Shake it, well, then it got really fine and thin for because I was taking some medicine and was sick. And now it's like half of my hair has the the brillopad look, you know, and it's it's the stuff that's the nape of my neck. Really curly. So you've got these wads of brillopadies. And you've got my hair didn't turn hasn't turned super gray. Like some people, they have beautiful hair that you go, I want that. Um, mine just got kind of like a dusty old dog, you know, just no color, just drab, and I have really dark hair. And so um I finally bit the bullet and I went and had it. What do they call it? My mom used to call it frosting, but it's called highlighted, foiled, highlighted, whatever. I don't know what it is. Anyway, and so now they're kind of like making it, it's almost reverse.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

They dye the roots, yeah, to make it look and grow out, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Yeah, oh my gosh. But actually, it's hair is really a problem.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Well, I have sparkles, but I had oh, I think the medication they put me on when I was in my 40s made it really changed it. And so then I got like the alopecia where you the hair just disappears like in a ring around, so that my I had a really nice hairline, and now that's gone back a little bit. You I wear my hair, you can't really tell until the wind blows, and I am probably the only one that notices.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

I never notice it.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Nobody noticed it, but yeah, but I have no sideburns anymore where I had really thick, thick hair before. You did have oh my god, your hair you couldn't even put it in a ponytail, it wouldn't stay in a I couldn't find a clip big enough to hold it. There was it was really fine hair, but there was a lot of it, it was massive. Yeah, so that's over the years of has gotten really, and of course, in the 70s it was the hairdo parted in the middle and long down to your waist with no problem. I meet people now and they go, Oh, you didn't you have long hair? Oh yeah, I did, and it's you know, I still have to have length because I too short, it just I I was blessed with cheeks. So if it's too short, I look like a chipmunk. So yeah, so but my hair's gone through many, many things. And then I had skin cancer on my scalp that they um cut out and they took a great big chunk right in the front, and so for a while, I wore 25 on Amazon made from human hair, and it was like a berette, but it just clipped on like bangs. So if you've ever wondered if you need bangs, you can buy it on Amazon, and there's all different colors, and it was close enough, and so I had this big wound on my my top of my head, and I just clipped one of those on. I could go anywhere. Nobody knew I even had it on. Yeah, and then I found the ones that not only had just the bangs, it has a thing that kind of goes over the back to blend it all in. Awesome! I still have them, so you know, and then somebody said, Oh, I'm gonna cut bangs. Oh, here, try these on first. What do you think? Do you like it? You know, because everybody goes, Oh, that was a mistake to cut bangs, but it all grows back eventually. My hair has slowly come back to yeah, it doesn't grow as fast.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Your skin doesn't heal as fast. Um, you get an injury that used to take overnight, and now it's three weeks later you're still putting a bandaid on.

SPEAKER_00 18:01

I've got a scar here from where the dog we got a new puppy, and it wasn't um he wasn't being rough or anything. I was sitting in the chair and he just paid me to let me know he was there. Oh, and he scratched your skin. Great big, great big V that just laid it open, you know. And so I just folded it over, it grew back, but skin tears is a skin.