Yes,

E GET OLD WITHOUT REALIZING IT

My drivers license has to be renewed in 2025, but I have decided to do it soon, probably next month for a couple of reasons.  
My eyesight is getting worse all the time, I want to pass the eye test now and then the license should be good for 10 yrs.  I can still see but it's not good and I can't see how to drive at night anymore!! There is a halo around lights that blinds me. 

We all have to get this thing called a Real ID which is more govt BS but we gotta do it...so I guess I will get a real ID when I go for the new License.  You have to show up with 2 or three forms of Identification,  My sis is at the eye dr today getting a new prescript for her glasses cause she has to renew in Jan for her license.  She has really bad eye sight since 7yrs of age she had scarlet fever or something when she was a kid and I doubt she got treatment for it since our parents were dirt poor  and lived in backwoods Appalachia.  

So the other day when we spoke this is the story she told me about another friend who is a male older than sis, not sure of his exact age, but between 75 and 80 yrs old.  An independent person who manages his own life, etc.  He had gone on a camping trip and on his way home he decided to stop and get his eyes examined while in a bigger town...and get new glasses at one of the exam and glasses in an hour places. BUT instead of that they TOOK his drivers license away from him...and told him he could NOT drive he was legally blind!!  

HE was shocked he had to phone a friend to come get him and drive him home...while a second friend drove his car back home...I have no idea if he can get surgery or treatment for his condition...but what a shock...SO I say don't leave anything to chance these days..

I recall back when my mom was 73 we were in a horrible car accident, she was nearly killed but during the incident she was conscious the entire time until they put her under with drugs to intubate her at the hospital.

Her license was a little over a month left to expire when she got home so I took her up to get it renewed...and they ask you some questions...one of them is, in the past 6 months have you been knocked unconscious, or had a seizure. 

She answered "YES", I immediately said "NO she was not" and the anal woman behind the counter listened to me explain how my mom had been injured but not a head injury she had several broken ribs and sternum and could not breath so she was sedated and put on a ventilator for 10 days...BUT she was not "knocked unconscious".  

BUT then the woman says..."but she answered yes.. She will have to be cleared by a doctor of Neurology before she can renew her license".  I nearly fell over...what???

So we had to contact her doctor to find out how we could get this neurology check up and he made arrangements, and just in case we also got an eye exam so she would be able to pass the eye exam.  

IT was a huge ordeal but we got it done just in time before her license expired...she continued driving till she was 86 yrs old and had hip surgery and could no longer move her right leg quick enough to safely drive.  

Her license expired on her 93rd birthday and we got an official State ID in place of a Driver's License.  She sold her car when she was 90 BUT the last time she drove was in 2011.  I was driving my Chevy Blazer at that time...and I had seen a Van on a used car lot that I really wanted to buy I had stopped in and driven it and one day I decided to make an offer, and he accepted, that's when I bought my van.  So I drove home and got Mom, she drove the Blazer for the first time on her last time driving...and she had no problems at all.  I followed behind her in the van, and made sure no one got too close to her and she drove like a pro.  

She was so proud of herself and I was so proud for her.  We were both very happy that day I got my van and she got to drive one last time. 

I sure hope my sis's exam goes well...she is 72 if they take away her license today she is gonna need to phone a friend...and my other sis is on a road trip  currently in Idaho. 

Be very careful how you answer these questions that we are asked as we get older, I think I would ask "why are you asking me that?" This can give you a hint as to what may be coming next depending on your answer.  I would not want anyone who has seizures driving on the road next to me, but each circumstance is different.   In fact research what kind of questions you may be asked  before you go so you can be prepared to answer. 

Hopefully we all can drive right up the day we can no longer do it safely Mom often told me the thing she missed most was not being able to drive anymore. But she was lucky she had me to take her anywhere she needed or wanted to go. 

At least these days we can order anything we need and have it delivered as long as we can pay for it...so being stuck at home is not as bad as it was back in the day...