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How do you accept change as you age?
Aging Well | Last Active: Nov 7, 2020 | Replies (277)Comment receiving replies
Hi Fiesty, I'm already 81 and also was very active in my earlier life. Thanks for mentioning the Walking thread which I had no idea existed. I am curious about it although I really have lots of opportunities for walking (with my cane, depending on the terrain). I love your words "I was deeply offended" when you realized you couldn't do as much as you were accustomed to doing. From one viewpoint, kind of funny as in how dare your body to not allow you to do that which you have always done. I certainly can identify with what you say! I was always a swimmer and only in the last 2 years did I have to realize that when on an ocean beach I could not just walk into the water to go for a swim because of my poor balance. If I want to feel completely in control when I'm in the water, it can't be in "nature's water", it has to be in a pool. That was a weird thing to have to realize, speaking of "deeply offended"! I have lately been wondering if there are "guidebooks" out there about what to expect when growing older! There are probably a zillion writings about it but I just never paid any attention to them because of course they didn't apply to me! It is only recently that I have to realize that given my age I have no choice: the word "elderly" applies to me even though I really cannot own that word! 🙂
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What I've noticed lately with getting older is that I heal more slowly. I recently hit my hand against a surface (not very hard) and a few days later saw a big round bruise that's still there. I also still have a red mark from a minor burn. In the past, this would not have happened. I'm 75 and able to get around okay, but when I walk outside, I'm careful so I don't trip on anything. I know falling now could cause problems. Not like in the past!
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Glad to meet you, @barbb. Yes, you got my "deeply offended" sentiment exactly! I'm laughing because like you, until covid reports began repeating age as a vulnerability factor, I never gave my advancing years much of a nod much less that they meant I was well into The Sr. Chapter of my life. Of course those zillion aging guidebooks never applied to us! Maybe we could collaborate on just one more: Aging for Dummies, When You Topple Over Picking Up the Newspaper and Wonder Why You Can't Get Back Up...what do think, possibilities??? Smiles