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Old 06-26-2023, 01:03 AM   #36330
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Originally Posted by neil_swann80 View Post
Exactly how many of my past injuries (that I was under the impression I had fully recovered from) are going to pop by for a reunion as time moves ever onward?
Every, single, flipping one!!!! And some you don't ever remember having.
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All of them - gone now but not forgotten
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Ayup. Every. single. freaking.one. I have knees that ache, (no synovial fluid left under the kneecaps) shoulders that are so painful some afternoons that I have to break out Dragon Nat Speaking, to (remotely) finish my workday; a spine with arthritis that just won't let me stay in bed for any normal sleeping period at night.

All of this--and some I'm not even bothering to mention--from a woman that worked out 3-5x weekly, every week of pretty much her entire adult life. Mostly aerobic, low-impact work, with some lifting and pilates-type-core work, planking (lots) but that never stopped me from blowing out not one but TWO knees; (to be fair, the right one was done when I was swept illegally in a kick-boxing match...but the other popped on a stair climber, when I was just puttering along), coming down with frozen shoulder (yup, you guessed it, both shoulders over the course of a year), repetitive motion injuries (mousing), and let's see...oh, yea. Oh, don't get me started about the 9 billion broken toes, which now break if they think they hear a crispy water cracker being broken in half. It's so freaking irritating.

Aging sucks in ways that they never warned us about, that's dem facts. We all are guilty of it--we tell ourselves that we're gonna "age gracefully" nad the total BS about that is, "aging gracefully" means...yup, you got it, NOT BL**DY AGING. So now, not only do we bl**dy look old, all the crap under the surface is creaky too.

/rant.

urgh.

Hitch
Hear them! They speak from the same experience as I do. The only thing that's good about old age is that it isn't, quite, dead. And at some point, even that becomes a fairly mixed blessing.

OTOH, I still enjoy what I can do, even if it's not all I'd like to do. So...
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