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It has totally surprised me how my whole body, mind, and daily living has changed just over eating clean.
As far as standing back up from a squatting position, I can do it but need to turn over and triangle with all fours and then push up with one hand on a piece of furniture. I take steps well and walk alot in the woods. After about an hour of walking, I admittingly don't mind sitting down for a bit. I'm in my sixties.
It would be nice to not go from caregiving straight to feeling old .
I was always active in younger years and still can touch my toes to my head! I do have to watch where I am going and make myself slow down to prevent injury. I take care of my skin, with a little help from my Dermatologist, keep those lines in check. I do this for ME!
I like who I am and where I am. I would not want to be back in my 30's or 40's. I read every day and love music.
I am grateful to be living this long. Both my parents died young.
DH is ten years older, still in great shape physically but some slowing mentally and why I am on this site. I hope we can remain together in our home and not have anyone tell us that we have to go to a care facility!
My advice, live your life to your fullest! Look at the positive in everything! Be realistic and plan for the unexpected, get your documents in order! Life happens, deal with it until it doesn't!
By "clean foods", I mean no processed foods, sugars, or dairy, and I watch my proteins. Lost loads of weight and the inflammation stopped completely. Lots of pain before that. All gone now.
Hope that helps.
Grandma insisted that we would go to the higher levels of a store in the elevator. As she grew older she still walked well, no cane or walker but she felt unsteady riding on an escalator.
I think grandma started having difficulty getting on and off an escalator. So, she preferred going upstairs in an elevator.
She couldn’t walk for long distances though. We would get a wheelchair for her when we took her to the zoo.
One thing that I adored about my grandmother was that she was never embarrassed to be seen in a wheelchair. She was always ready to go out when I asked her to join us on an outing.
My mom was self conscious about using a walker. I had to encourage her to get out more.
I find myself using handrails on the escalator and all other stairs. I’m way more careful about the shoes I wear when I’m running around these days. I think Skechers are comfy!
Years ago I could go anywhere in heels and never worry about stumbling or falling.
How did your aunt get around when you took her to the casino? Was it a big casino? Did you get a wheelchair for her to use? Did your mom go with y’all?
What was frustrating was knowing my husband (with Parkinson’s 35 years) could get himself up from the floor if I was able to help him to his knees. He had been going to PT so I spoke to his therapist about it and he agreed my husband’s legs were strong from the leg exercises they had been doing for several years. Yes he still falls at times, but because of PT they have decreased. I got a referral from our geriatrician for PT for me and I have already seen an improvement. So now, we go together.
I highly recommend trying PT when possible for LOs and caregivers, for falls or concerns of getting up from low places. If you do, I recommend trying to find a smaller clinic. I recently learned that most hospital therapy programs will only do a limited number of visits no matter what because the demand on their services. A test case was won in 2013 that allows PT for ongoing maintenance for certain conditions.
https://www.cms.gov/center/special-topic/jimmo-settlement/faqs
I ended up buying her a lift chair.
It sounds like you are staying active though, which is a good thing!
It is fabulous to have good public transportation. Subways and trains are easier than driving everywhere!
Naps are nice in the afternoon.
Mom thanked me on the drive home and said that she often felt invisible when people bypassed her.
I am sorry that a cashier treated you like you were invisible.
But I do make more typos these days between my eyes and my fingers. I need to proof read more!
Just because you are older it doesn't mean you can't learn something new.
Also, most people assume that seniors can't ask for what they want and they need to be coddled. There's a big difference between helping and trying to take over a senior's life.
All seniors do not need caretakers. If I become physically unable to take care of myself, then I'll get a caretaker.
At the same time I am taking care of my husband who has been diagnosed with Parkinsons disease and after reading these posts, he seems to have been diagnosed as a person with this disease quite advanced. He had no symptoms that I noticed, then he was diagnosed and he quickly went downhill.
I guess that is a "novel " of an answer but I got carried away..
By the way, I found that one good thing about getting older is that you can do stupid stuff and blame it on your age. Carol Marie
I'm currently in Montana. It is unbelievable who active seniors are here. People in their 70's and older mountain bike, ski, hike, walk.
I'm only 63 but people 20 years older than me are more fit. I was invited by a group of women to go kayaking. Most of them are close to 80.
We watched a bike race. There were a lot of finishers in their 70's who finished the 90 mile course or the 50 mile course. The course was high elevation riding on dirt/gravel trails.
It was inspirational.
I'm working on upping my game.
I learned eating the low inflammation diet really eliminated my aches and pains.
It takes a bit more cooking and planning but my results have been dramatic.
There is no way we want anything to do with the vehicles they make today. Way too much distraction inside. In our old vehicles we know where every button is blindfolded.
We don't need a car to talk, beep, or sound an alarm... we don't need to answer a cellphone via that screen... we don't need a backup camera...
we don't need google map because I know how to read a map.... and what happened to the gear shift??? sorry but turning a dial just doesn't cut it. Plus I don't want to dig out my reading glasses just to go from "park" to "drive".
Our old Jeeps are great climbers, we don't need to shovel our driveway (not easy at our age) as they can climb over what the street snow plow puts in front of our driveway. We don't need to worry about door dents in parking lot as we probably couldn't find a new dent from the old ones. Yes, the paint is peeling off the roof of one Jeep, but heck, easier to find in a parking lot :)
(side note - why do they call them options when they're not optional?)
I’ve just been reading Oliver Sacks last book (Rivers of Consciousness), which has made me realise (all over again) how people of all ages have huge problems that they didn’t expect – tourettes etc sound just awful. It’s more common as you age, and there is less to gain than ‘curing’ someone younger. How do we cope with dignity as we age?
I'm going to look up that book today.
My son has tourets, my other is Asperger's, me dyslexic, I wondered if there all related.
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I NEVER do that, until after I've been sick!
I'm only 60, and I go to the gym 5 days a week! What's it going to be like when I'm 80? Gaaaah!