Aging Gracefully

It has been a while since posting! I’d like to be able to tell you that I have been busy traveling, or contributing to obtaining world peace or simply having so many social functions that I simply didn’t have the time to write! But that is not the case. The fact is that I have been very busy trying to age gracefully, all the while pretending that nothing had changed in our lives except the occasional Dr appointments or waking up to find a new little wrinkle that we hope no one will notice!

Aging gracefully is hard work. A very good friend of mine who is 10 years older than I am use to tell me “you just wait little missy, first it’s the ailment of the year, then the month and then the week”. I use to laugh at her. I’m not laughing anymore.

Yesterday I was determined to make enchiladas.

Days of planning what to cook use to be so simple, just decide to make what I wanted, check to see if I had necessary ingredients and if not, run to the store to get the necessary ingredients. Come home and make it! So very simple. Well having a “few” issues with my knees and sciatica the last few weeks, My diet consists mainly of ice tea, Advil and Tylenol! Oh and lots of chocolate! Just enough food to not allow all the Advil to destroy my stomach. Thank goodness chocolate is so healing.

So yesterday when we were headed home from Randys speech lessons (Parkinsons speech lessons) we stopped and picked up lunch, came home and ate and made our plan to make enchilada. But that didn’t happen. We did go to the store after taking a quick 30 min nap. It just took us a little longer than anticipated shopping. Because of my knee hurting and Randy walking slowly, we inched our way to the drug and cosmetic department. Friends, it is sad when you have to stop at the end of each drug aisle to see if you need anything down said aisle. And yes we did need something down most of the aisles . First there was the arthritis cream, more Advil, then the Fung Off for toe nail fungus, then wart remover for the wart that magically has appeared on my knee and we cannot forget the Icy Hot for the sciatica pain. By the time we had read all the labels to see which was best for each item, we were beginning to loose our ability to walk clear across the store for food! But we both swallowed another Advil, with our drink, and quoted Bob the Builder, “can we do it?…yes we can”. And yes we did. After an hr and a half, we drove home, put away the cold foods and collapsed on the couch. , I looked at Randy and said, I can’t make Enchiladas tonight. I’m just exhausted! We door dashed Chick Fila. We had spent $216 at the store, and came home too tired to cook any of the food we had just bought! We are now on a quest to see how others grow old gracefully. Apparently we didn’t take that class when they offered it at our over 55 clubhouse when we lived in AZ. Or if we did, we have forgot what they taught us! Tomorrow is a new day and since we won’t have to go to the store, maybe I’ll have the energy to cook! And Randy reads up on investing into Door Dash.