She wasn't bitching about having a short dumpy Jewish moma figure, lord that has been her signature " look" since she was a girl
But she was grieving the fact that in so many ways her body wasn't performing the way that she wanted it to.
It has aged almost beyond recognition
I get that.
I really do
I repaired the cat flap the other day and sat on the hard kitchen floor for around an hour as I did so.
It took a great deal of chutzpah , physical writing and pain and heave myself up again on one of the kitchen chairs without screaming.
Old bones eh
I'm finding that at the end of my night shift. Whilst some of the younger nurses are bouncing off to the gym after 12 hours ,I'm hobbling like and diarrhoea ridden John Wayne towards the safety of bluebell, a couple of paracetamol hardening my muscles leg controls against collapsing on the back seat like a active nymphomanic would do after something vital snapped in flagrant delicto
It come to all of us
Sans eyes
Sans teeth
Sans taste
Sans Everything
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ReplyDeleteSadly, painfully, yes.
ReplyDeleteI was beautiful once. But now in old age there is no one left to remember it.
ReplyDeleteOh, your comment affected me deeply. Love to you.
DeleteWell John. I do have trouble kneeling since my knee replacement and I feel tired after working for more than 3 or 4 hours in a day . But then ,now I am eighty and still chubby, I suppose I shouldn't complain. Your job would kill me.
ReplyDeleteKathy in south wales
I certainly think more than twice about getting onto the floor !
ReplyDeleteI watched the programme last night with Miriam , called " Miriam's big fat adventure" . It was very interesting.( I assume that is why she was being interviewed ahead of the prog. going out. ?)
I thought having a dog was supposed to keep you fit?
ReplyDeleteVery very true, its a pain, literally, growing old.
ReplyDelete‘Oh dear!’ or should I say Old dear?
ReplyDeleteLX
It gets worse.
ReplyDeleteThere are many downsides to growing old, but what is the alternative? 😏
ReplyDeleteI always hope and pray that no one sees me on my hands and knees in the supermarkets when I have to reach to the very back of the bottom shelves, which has happened quite regularly recently. It's easier to get right down than to try and bend that far ... but the getting up is hilarious!!
ReplyDeleteI like Miriam, she is so funny, tells it like it is.
ReplyDeleteI haven't been in control of my body for a long time. Most days are the same, but then a day arrives that isn't and it becomes a new learning curve until the next which is laying just around the corner. It may be days, weeks, months away, but it is there. Hey ho!
ReplyDeleteyep; turning 65 has been a shock to my body. it hates me.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about getting up from the floor. Once I would spring up like Zebedee in "The Magic Roundabout" but now I fear that I might never get up and will remain crawling around on the floor forever like a giant garden slug.
ReplyDeleteAnd some us know it. Boy, do we!
ReplyDeleteGrowing old isn't for sissies! x
ReplyDeleteOh, John, I am so glad to hear of your aches and pains. I thought it was just me. Glad to hear I am not alone. A little pain medicine does help now and then. Love!
ReplyDeleteYep, I can relate to crawling along the floor like our youngest Granddaughter and heaving myself up with the help of sofa/chair/any solid object! Blessed knees!
ReplyDeleteYou're old and you're proud.
ReplyDeleteIt's an honest documentary that she has made. Episode 2 tonight.
ReplyDeleteNow quit with the self pity x
Just tired x
DeleteI am quite a sight getting up off the floor, legs spread out, trying to find something sturdy to hang on to as I heave myself up.
ReplyDeleteMy most recent realization was walking outdoors with my then four year old Great Grand daughter when she went skipping along up ahead of me. I tried to skip to catch up, as she turned around and said, “not a good look GG!” (Wonder when my skipping talent faded away!)
I think it's very hard to go back to full time nursing after being part time. 30 years of district nursing has left me very creaky!after 5 years parties I went back full time for one year prior to retiring. Definately the best year of my career, but surely the most exhausting.
ReplyDeleteI knew I was fast becoming an old person when things started slipping from my lips like, "Be grateful for every day you barely notice your body; before long it will dawn on you that some part of you hurts every day." Or when someone is bemoaning a birthday, saying, "It beats the alternative; every morning you wake up on the right side of the grass is a GOOD day."
ReplyDeleteShe’s been in many great things but I’ll always remember her as the Spanish Infanta on Blackadder ...with Jim Broadbent as the translator ...absolute genius
ReplyDelete. . . . . . but then I think of my mum who lived another 15 years longer (to reach 91) than what I am now! I just don't see myself being able to do that. I'm old now and the aches and pains have crept up in the past couple of years - kneeling and being able to get up again is a big one, lower back after an hour of gardening yesterday stopped me in my tracks, and I need severe torn rotator cuff right shoulder surgery which I'm putting off for the time being as it's such a long rehab. Meanwhile I know my limits and manage to enjoy each day best I can. My Sunday walk in sunny 70F was awesome - spring is in the air here and will hopefully bring change to this crazy world.
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad to say that at the age of almost 73, my body is still working pretty well, except for some intermittent back ache and indigestion. But I feel your pain. I was in agony for several days last summer after my back seized up as I was pruning a bush.
ReplyDeleteIt is all in your mind I tell you!. I am 55 and exercise 5 times a week or more! I didn't start this routine until I was about 50. I just ignore the pain :). You can turn back time. When I was 39 I climbed through the rafters of my condo to wire internet. There was a time I weird the day would come when I could not do this anymore. Well that day did come but 5 years later it is gone and I feel like I can do anything.
ReplyDeleteAfter 37 years on the 'coal face' of The Nhs, I retired as soon as I hit 55. I just could not cope with it any longer. If the government does decide on a call to arms over Coronovirus I may have to decline on a professional level as I just wouldn't cope again.
ReplyDeleteMy poor body is getting quite incapable now. Still I carry on as best I can.
Yes, the joys of aging!
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what everyone here is talking about. Somehow I thought that I would avoid the pains and aches and problems of aging. Haha! I suppose this means I'll actually die, too, doesn't it? Who would have thought?
ReplyDeleteI did prefer those many years when my body parts did their jobs silently and without my notice. Not so these days.
ReplyDeleteWhen my dear MIL reached 75, she used to say that she could still get down on the floor but that getting back up wasn't pretty!
Marion Margolyes is a treasure.
Hugs!
It does suck, this aging and pain and disrepair, but it doesn't beat the alternative.
ReplyDeleteTits up, as a wise man once said:)
And...next year we’ll wish we felt this good! Life is such a crapshoot. Now, for excitement and a bit of doom, we have a pandemic heading our way. It is worse for the elderly, they say. Hmmm, what is ‘elderly’ these days?
ReplyDeleteMy 56 year old body is knackered ...
ReplyDeleteAren't you quite young yet, John? I feel like saying a good trainer, good nutrition, swimming/ biking? could help you get into better shape with more stamina---but doesn't that sound awful, so exhausting and boring, and does it even help? My fave remedy has always been a long bath soak in epsom salt and sea salt.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right.....
DeleteIf I need to spend time on the floor I now find it easier to sit rather than kneel or squat.I even do this in shops now and feel a bit less agile than last year.Try stretches each day John,they help me x
ReplyDeleteI am afraid to say I do understand, a bit too well. I didn't appreciate what I had when I had it. I guess we never do.
ReplyDeleteCan’t do it all, never could, focus on what we can do. An hour on the floor and I would need a crane to get back to my feet.
ReplyDeleteSomeone here has started gentle beginners yoga at a couple of the nursing homes and the results so far are amazing, the return of mobility and strength is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteIt's all her farting I don't like, otherwise she's quite a character.
ReplyDeleteI do some Pilates exercises weekly and the physio who supervises it all says that, if everyone were to do only one exercise daily for the rest of their life, the simple sit to stand one (2 sets of 10) gives most benefits.
ReplyDeleteAge is not for sissies, as they say!
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