Aging something that faces all of us but a reality that few think of when they are young. At the risk of stating the obvious it is an inevitable process that no-one escapes. Those of you who know me personally will know that I have had grey hair, a marker of advancing years, for a very long time starting in my thirties. My age, in addition to the grey hair, chronologically places me at the upper end of the spectrum of life expectancy for male South Africans. In January this year I needed readmission to hospital for the repair of an incisional hernia, a consequence of my previous admission to…