Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for June 30, 2021

You get one shot if your foot misses the leg hole down you go .

Been there, doing that. Last year I decided my balance was going to he!!, and at my age (76) I can’t afford a fall. So I started practicing standing on one foot without grabbing onto anything to steady myself. I’ve conquered underwear, and have almost gotten socks under control, although I still tend to stagger a little. Old age isn’t for wimps!

Achievable goals. It’s all about achievable goals…

Hold them about a foot off the ground, jump up and pull them under you and land your feet in the leg holes.

Let me know how that works out for you.

The curse of old age. I’m still OK, but I don’t take going downstairs for granted. I think about it. I don’t know how a dog can go down head first. I can go down head first, too. The difference is that the dog does it more gracefully and walks away afterwards.

When I retired in 1997, a friend and colleague, who was known for pulling unusual questions from the cosmos, asked me How do you put on your pants?

Mystified, I intelligently asked, Er. . . um . . . uh. . . what?

He said his father, who was in his early 70’s, felt he must have gotten old because he had to sit down to pull on his pants.

I told him I put pants and BVD’s on while standing. At that time I was only a few years younger than his dad. But he made me think about the symbolism. His question, odd as it was, determined me to stave off that particular old measure and, since that time, I have made sure I still do both standing without leaning.

Yeah, it isn’t exactly Olympic class for activity, but each morning I do it, I feel I have put off feeling old one more day. Which is what it means to age: taking each day as it comes, handling what needs to be handled, asking for help when one can’t, and trying not to hurt or disrespect anyone in the doing. It’s all good.

What about the joys of going commando?

The good news it that in a few more years your underwear will be replaced with diapers.. and others will be responsible for ensuring their on and clean

Moderately wobbly.

One solution is to move to a nudist colony.

End of March 2021 I had C5,6&7 fused and the two things the surgeon said was do not lift anything over 15 pounds for 6 months and for the love of god, do NOT fall. I sit to skivvy up now. Falling is a death sentence.

Thongs are much easier, I have heard?

You too? I’m happy to be able to stand up quickly without weaving.

More about me than it used to be.

Just read this same thing a couple of days ago in the RV news letter . Just a coincidence? Hmmm

I stopped watching the gymnastic competitions when just walking became painful.