Iconic actor Dick Van Dyke is just days away from his milestone 100th birthday. Still as sharp as ever, the Mary Poppins star gave a hopeful health update ahead of his big day.
"My sight is so bad now that origami is out of the question. I have trouble following group conversations and complain frequently about my hearing aids, though I would never refer to them as ear trumpets. I’m not that old," he wrote in an essayfor The Times published Thursday, November 13 -- exactly one month ahead of his birthday. "I chew nicotine gum, all day long — still, decades after I quit smoking!"
While Van Dyke credits his wife, Arlene Silver, for keeping him "up and moving," he explained that "it’s frustrating to feel diminished in the world, physically and socially."
"I get invites to events or offers for gigs in New York or Chicago, but that kind of travel takes so much out of me that I have to say no," he wrote. "Almost all of my visiting with folks has to happen at my house."
Despite his limited mobility, the beloved comedian revealed that maintains a gym routine and continues to work out three times a week.
View this post on Instagram"I don’t know why this is something I still want to do but it is...If I miss too many gym days, I really can feel it — a stiffness creeping in here and there. If I let that set in, well, God help me," he wrote. "I usually do a circuit, going from one machine to the next without a break, in a circle. I start with the sit-up machine...Then I do all the leg machines religiously because my legs are two of my most cherished possessions. And then the upper body."
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