Alas too true! I am definitely getting there!
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While I’m some years away from the author’s decade, a combination of genetics, accidents, surgeries gone wrong, and just life in general have left me uncomfortably close to his situation. Older GD wanted me to participate in “Mickey’s Mousekercise” with her yesterday, which entails a lot of hopping and jumping. I had to fake it and hope that she was more focused on the narrow acrylic mirror near the TV to watch herself. 
Yes, the whole idea of not being able to spend my Golden Years in splendid isolation away from The Big City is a bit disappointing, but the thing I keep reminding myself of is that almost all my rural ancestors would have been dead ten years younger than I am now.
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Oh my- I have my first watercolor class this week and am in a bookclub.
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My father fell while trying to get into a taxi, broke his hips and died 2.5 years later at age 84. Take care while getting in/out of taxis, especially the elderly.
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I have been dabbling with watercolor myself!
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My mother is an 86-year-old massage therapist. She broke her kneecap right after Thanksgiving last year and lived with us while she made a full recovery, but now she only plays pickle ball instead of tennis. She is also a soloist and the pianist at her church.
My 87-year-old dad was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year just prior to my mom’s accident. After six months of chemo, he is cancer free and back on a ladder trimming trees and fixing his roof (you can’t reason with him). He’s also back to walking three miles a day.
Neither are on any type of medication, although my dad has to see his oncologist regularly going forward. My mother doesn’t believe in doctors (or vaccines, sigh).
I had hoped to inherit those genes, but I had my left hip replaced last January and am not as spry as either of them, but I have abused my body over the years much more than they have.
Fingers crossed that they maintain the health they have and that they don’t have to care for me in my old age.
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