Aging Hurts

What is it about getting past the age of 50 that everything starts to hurt? You start with the short grunt when you push yourself up from the chair to stand up, and the ahh when you sit down. As you get older the grunt gets a little louder and the ahhhh a little longer.

I have learned that I have parts of my body that can be pulled that I didn't even know I used. Planters fasciitis is an inflammation of the band of tissue that connects your heel to your toes. Really? You just wake up one morning and you feel like you are walking on razor blades. The the best news is there really isn't much they can do for it, but they sure are willing to try anything, for a price, lol.

I remember my parents talking about sciatica and thought they were just making it up. Guess what. They weren't. Who would have thought that sitting on a hard surface, like the floor, for a long period of time playing with your Grandkids could cause so much pain? Not me, until I couldn't sit or walk for a week.

When did just sleeping become a hazard? You go to sleep perfectly fine and wake up with a stiff neck. People would say that they slept wrong. Really? There is a wrong way to sleep?

Then there is turning wrong to get the shampoo, or moving clothes from the washer to the dryer and you pull a muscle. Right under your shoulder blade and it hurts to breath. I should invest in the ThermaCare Company, because heaven knows I use enough of their products.

When did this happen? I get that we have to put up with the physical aging process. I don't like it, but I get it. The laugh lines, crows feet, forehead lines, sagging eyelids, turkey neck, etc.......  But, I do not understand the random aches and pains that can make an active person of middle age to feel like they are way into their golden years.

I love the quote by John Wagner, "Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up!

True, True.