Not to fear, age is here. Yep, I was just looking in the mirror. I remember years ago when an elderly friend told me how interesting it was to watch herself change with age. Yes, it is definitely interesting but somewhat horrifying, too. Aging is relentless. Just when you have adjusted to thicker eye glasses or a hearing aid, some other part of your body becomes a problem. Especially the parts of your body that have been injured when you were young.
When I put any weight on the foot, it felt as if it were a balloon and a painful explosion would happen any moment. Suddenly, the walker I had inherited from Mother became a necessity. But the pain and swelling only lasted three days after heavy medication, pain patches, and (not easy to do) foot exercises. My biggest regret is that it happened during some of the most beautiful autumn days we have had and I was unable to utilize them to prepare the gardens for winter. Plans are often usurped, dictated by bodily changes and life events at any age but the regularity of it in these “Golden Years” is frustrating! If you are in my age bracket or getting close to it, here are a couple of suggestions for making life a little easier. First, one can install, into the electrical line on the lamp beside your chair, a switch. Once you have installed the switch in the electrical line, you are not hanging out into space trying to turn the lamp on. If you have pinned the switch to the side of your chair, it is easy to find even in darkness.
I would enjoy hearing from you and learning of any other devices that you have found helpful and your aging experiences. Please put them in the “comments” at the end of the article. With these strangers staring back at us from the mirrors, one can never have too many suggestions which help make our lives easier.
This is a wonderful thought: 2 Corinthians 4:16 “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed each day.” [email protected] ©Ann Rains, November, 2020
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Judy Whitten
11/9/2020 03:51:49 pm
Since we are near the same age, it was easy to understand that you and I (and others of our high school friends) are having the same situations occurring. I have also noted that I am becoming more like my mother with each passing day. She had her favorite chair and surrounded herself with the "necessities" of life so that all she had to do was to drop her hand or reach the end table to get Kleenex, nail clippers, a pen and paper, scissors, the TV remote and fan/heater control. Of necessity, the table by the chair is getting larger. There is absolutely nothing new under the sun.
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Hi Judy, thanks so much for reading the article. Yes, you are definitely right! I never dreamed I would keep all my absolute necessities within reach beside my chair, just like Mother, but I do. We are blessed to have that legacy and be able to continue it! Now, where are those tissues?
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