Unfortunately I’m still out of commission.
I was doing MUCH better but I had an appointment I couldn’t miss yesterday. Since I’m still not able to get in and out of my car to drive, my other-half drove me. All went well and it felt good to get out of the house.
When we got back home, he asked if I would like to go for a short drive. I guess I was high on the fresh air so I agreed.
Bad move.
Sitting in the car seemed fine and I was enjoying myself. However, being immobile for the 30 minutes or so was NOT a good decision.
So today, not only does my leg hurt, but also several other parts of my body. Actually, my leg was getting better… but it’s difficult to appreciate the improvement since so many other parts hurt.
SIGH.
Of course none of this has to do with old age!!!
Thank you all for your good thoughts. Keep ‘em coming and I’ll whip this thing yet.
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I’m sorry you hurt, but it’s a good sign that you felt well enough to push it. That’s progress!
All those other parts hurt because you’ve been immobile. When people don’t move for a while, all your muscles atrophy and your joints ‘sieze up’, keep moving around as much as possible.
When I had surgery for a ruptured disk in my neck several years ago it took me a month to be able to move without all my other parts hurting too.
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Of course you’re right. Here at home, I do try to move around, but I was so giddy about getting out, I overlooked the consequences. Two steps forward, one BIG step back!
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learning experiences sometimes have nasty reminders attached. Lol, I was just going to go all motherly-advice on you, but I suspect you’ve already done that yourself. sometimes we have to actually do the stupid thing before we learn NOT to do the stupid thing.
I’m aching in sympathy, there’s nothing worse than being immobilized by pain.
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Get well soon Nan, we all miss you. At least you can be confident that, in the time you take off, nothing much will change in respect to the issues you are passionate about. Trump will still be Trump (and even if he isn’t, then somebody else will be) and ‘believers’ all over the planet will continue to pass on personal responsibility to mythical entities.
Coincidentally, today in Australia it is ANZAC Day, when we gather together to ignore the reality that so many of our countrymen have been sent off to be slaughtered in the name of God and Country, brainwashed by the mythology of both.
None of this stuff has changed much in my time on this planet, and I may have been here longer than you, Nan – so don’t worry…. we can be fairly confident that nobody has really paid attention to anything we’ve said in the past, anyway, and they are even less likely to do so in the future.
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And, as you can see Nan, Arnold and I are trying to keep the place spick and span in your absence – opening up the curtains now and again and keeping it all well aired. We keep the lights dim so as not to run up a huge power bill and I did a big vacuum yesterday in preparation for your return – you wouldn’t believe some of the stuff that came up out of the carpet!
Arnold (something of a do-golfer, it turns out) is keen to set up some sort of drop in childcare type service and whilst it would provide a wonderful space for he and I to preach our own particular versions of bullshit, and possibly indoctrinate the unsuspecting youth of another generation, I’m not sure that such is your own vision of the space. The funding hasn’t come forward yet anyway – so there’s plenty of time to squash the project.
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You two are just way too good to me!! 😚
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Best wishes, of course, for a fast and complete recovery.
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Nan, believe it or not you’re a large part of my online life and so I miss your posts. You stir up my thinking whether I comment or not. Is it difficult to retrieve research etc with your tablet?
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I have been doing a lot on my tablet, but it’s definitely not my computer! Just writing this short blog post took about 30 min.
It’s nice to know I’ve been missed. 😊
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This morning a coworker asked, “Have you heard what your governor did?”
I said “Who, General [Maine Gov Janet] Mills?”
And he said “No, [Florida Gov] DeSantis.”
Apparently, 6 days ago he signed a bill that allows chaplains to volunteer their counsel to students of all ages.
I like the volunteer part, and I’m sure some help will come of it, yet I’m leery that there’ll be religious agendas.
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How to tell if there’s a religious agenda: what will they do if it’s a Muslim, Buddhist or Pagan who volunteers…
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I don’t quite understand. What is meant by ‘counsel’? If what you mean is advise then what other possible advise other than ancient fabrications are they qualified to give?
And I’m not sure if you meant ‘leery’ or ‘wary’, but if it is the former then I assume you are making reference to the Catholic Church, though, historically such offers of theirs interpret ‘all ages’ as meaning ‘preferably under the age of 14.’
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Wary works. I used leery because it was a favorite of my Mom’s.
To me, more than giving advice counseling is listening, empathizing, “loving on.” That’s become my approach. I’m wary of going beyond.
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Fair enough. But why chaplains? Why not plumbers or television repairmen?
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Because chaplains should represent a God that created us for relationship, who listens, empathizes and loves on humanity.
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Yes, but Arnold, they don’t. Despite, for the very vast majority of them anyway, good intentions, they represent a preposterous lie, and rather than advance the cause of human self understanding, they provide a barrier to it.
The fact is that the education of plumbers and television repairmen provides a far greater understanding of the human condition.
Would you take geography lessons from a teacher who thought the earth was flat?
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“Preposterous lie” is quite an assumption. How about “preposterous assumption?”
And as a layman that’s why I volunteer, listening to and loving on humanity’s kids.
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I honestly admire you for that Arnold – I am sure you provide admirable support to those that need it.
But unless you are willing to consider my belief that the world is not flat an ‘assumption’ then I can’t really go along with your interpretation. There is, in fact, far more tangible evidence for such an assumption than for the existence of the living god to whom you refer. On the other hand the evidence opposing both hypotheses is overwhelming – both are preposterous and the alternative views are way beyond being assumptions
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Because chaplaincy is not about pushing one religion or any religion for that matter. Chaplains can be of any religious or spiritual tradition, or none at all. There’s the Humanist Chaplaincy Network for example. However, I don’t think the intent of the Florida law, and I believe this was Arnold’s concern. I think the legislators have in mind “chaplains” who will push a right-wing nationalist fundamentalist Christian agenda – in other words do what chaplains aren’t supposed to do.
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Wishing you well! Soon!
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Wishing you the best. Take it easy for awhile.
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Heal soon, Nan! We need you! So sorry to hear about your troubles … and no, I’m sure age has nothing {cough} to do with {cough} it at all! We miss you … take good care, my friend.
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Hope your leg continues to improve. (Sometimes, I think that car manufacturers have car seat designers who think the products of their work should lull us into a false sense of security.🤔) That “stop the pain by hurting something else” business doesn’t work. It distracts you for awhile, but it doesn’t last.
I know exactly what you mean about “getting high on the fresh air”. I get lessons now and then that remind me that just because I feel better than I did yesterday doesn’t mean I can stop being careful. The good news is that, when I remember to be a bit more active on those good days, it can lead to more good days. It helps calm the “hurting in places where I didn’t even know there were places” … until the next change in the weather reminds that I’ve become sensitive to changes in atmospheric pressure. (I don’t recall ever saying, “I want to be a barometer when I grow up.” 😒)
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Actually, I left out some of my “adventure.”
I rode to the appointment and on the drive in my other-half’s pick-up. It has a running board and handles so I was able to get in and out fairly easily, but I did have to “pull” myself into the passenger’s seat—so I was using other muscles to do so. And these are the muscles that are screaming at me now … along with my groin muscle.
I wonder if we ever learn that we’re simply not as young as we used to be.
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well. getting old(er) does have a bad rep, and it tends to take us down far sooner than most of us are ready for. On the inside, we are all 25; on the outside, not so much. What really annoys me (shouting-at-the-computer annoyed) is guys who turn forty and say “well, Im old now, it’s all down hill from here…” mope mope mope
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Don’t just whip it, beat it into submission. I’m sorry you hurt but glad you got some fresh air at least. Currently I’ve scratched most of the skin off my left leg and the itching is driving me Doolally so probably I won’t get out and about today. Still though, I can see the world pass by my window and enjoy any sunshine vicariously. Huge Hugs
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Old age can’t be brought into this mix!
Get well, Nan.
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Oh yes it can, Mak. Pain from injuries are double/triple what you experience when young.
Thanks for the good wishes. 😊
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That was tongue in cheek. a groin injury is terribly painful. When I injured my groin, normal every day tasks become a chore.
I can’t imagine the combination with old age
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I hope you never have to find out!
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we just don’t bend the way we useta, and sometimes when we do, the body forgets that there’s an ‘up’ in this nonsense as well as a “down”. And you have to start being careful of even getting out of the painful position, because something else is warning you not to do that…and then you realize you have old bones, possibly brittle, so falling gets to be important, too.
It’;s ALL about age, and what we did to ourselves for the decades previously; be it dancing or roller skating, hiking or skiing, or just walking for three solid hours because you can–sooner or later it finds you. And it’s not so much abuse, just use. That’s the annoying part.
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…and takes longer to heal.
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healing after a certain age becomes problematic; younger bones and joints and muscles heal better, and they don’t cause problems elsewhere, at least as long as you leave the high jumps alone for while, but when you add age-related use and abuse as well as falling down the stairs, you probably have a cast in your future and a permanent limp. As well as a caution of stairs.
The day before my wedding I was coming down the stairs at home, talking to my Dad in the room below; not paying a lot of attention to my footing, or my coffee cup. I mis-stepped, and sort of went whoopsie into the air (and somewhere in there managed to set my coffee gently on a free stair) and then down, landing on the side of one ankle. ow. By the next morning it was nicely swollen, and I limped gracefully down the aisle, limped gracefully all day long, and after a week or two stopped limping.
Try that today and i’d probably be in a body cast and have second degree burns from the coffee.
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Ha! I hear that. I’m over 60, it settles in on you at some point, you might need to tread a little more carefully than you did at 20.
I love the fact that you managed to get the coffee cup down, and then continued to fall. It’s amazing how we can micro manage right in the middle of an event like that. 😉
I tripped over a huge piece of steel in a friends shop one day, I was on my way down, I quickly surmised the wall was the only thing I could use, I caught the wall with both hands, leaning over just over belly high, was still falling when my hands hit the wall, but stopped myself just before my nose got there, then I pushed off the wall perfectly to an upright standing position. He looked at me like I was freaking Spiderman. He was a good friend, cancer got him dammit…
Glad I wasn’t on the stairs though. You’re lucky you weren’t on a gurney for the wedding!
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I haven’t looked into flat earth talk. To me it would be symbolic, referring to Isaiah’s God, ‘elevating valleys and leveling mountains and hills.’ Nor am I educated in theology. Simple is good.
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My mistake. I would have thought that chaplaincy was actually all about pushing one religious view or the other, that seems to be the Oxford Dictionary definition, anyway.
But my main concern is the apparent assumption that these people are any better qualified to provide support than anyone else. That they believe in ridiculous myths concerning the supernatural makes them rather less suitable than others, I would have thought.
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i agree, sir. Anyone who bears the title “chaplain” is by their very calling a person who leans toward the religious. Sometimes quite sharply. Sometimes not. I believe it’s considered a multi-faceted position, serving anyone who needs one, but even at that, it might be nearly impossible to leave god out of the equation…and I’m sure parents who discover their kids are being ‘counseled’ by a chaplain would want to know why, and what denomination, and no one asked us…
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Nan, though we all know that “age” does indeed gradually weigh us down, so to speak, but it is gravity too that always, ALWAYS wins. 😄 Though we all gradually submit to time and gravity, 200,000+ years of skeletal and muscular evolution has shown us that our bodies are meant/designed for motion, regular motion, as I’m sure you know well Ma’am. 😉
It is why our astronauts must exercise daily when up in orbit or space. And that is without the confines gravity!
Therefore, as appropriate for your recovery of course, try to move around as much as you can. Take it from me, a former collegiate/pro athlete, it’s the best way to return to normal. ❤️😁
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When you reach your mid-80’s, injure yourself, and hurt just getting up from a chair, let alone showering and getting dressed in the morning, then we’ll talk about moving around.
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😄 Indeed Ma’am, indeed. 😉 That’s why I mentioned “as appropriate for your recovery.” Not letting yourself fully heal first prior to exerting yourself can lead to more damage, more injury. I would know as a former athlete.
My invoice of services rendered will be in the mail Madame. 🤭
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I used to do floor exercises regularly. Leg lifts, sit ups, the whole thing. Then I messed up my already messed up back and had to quit them. Years later I thought, well, I could use the exercise, and I got out the exercise mat and stretched out on it.
No. Just no. That’s when I realized what scoliosis is. My husband had to haul me up very very slowly, and then let me claw my own careful way up the rest of him. it was not attractive. The cat now uses the exercise mat for a bed. We are both happy with that.
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Of course there are always exceptions, but I have found that “old” age isn’t always conducive to the regular regimen one may have followed in their young years.
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Hah! Ain’t that the tooth! 😉 One day at the park on their soccer field in front of goal, with my kids and my new HOT girlfriend—yes, I wanted to show-off/showboat my once glory years of high level goalkeeping & shooting the ball—I think I was about 45 yrs old then, my son dropped his jaw a few times yelling “Woah! Wow! Dad you are SO good!” 😄 That just fed and stroked my (rather large) ego. Then it happened, as it usually does for a show-off who is way too old to be doing this type of acrobatics…
My daughter crossed a ball into the goalbox-penalty area just over waist high. What did this idiot of an old man do? I tried a very difficult side volley, where you must throw your kicking foot up out from under you then slam your leg and foot through the ball… scoring a spectacular world class GOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLL!!! 🤩
Yeah, didn’t happen. Didn’t catch the ball at the right timing resulting in a slightly torn pectineus muscle and inguinal hernia. Pffffft! 🤦♂️ I’m still paying for it every now and then today. My unimpressed hot girlfriend then said “You might wanna check that ego next time, huh?”
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I have days like that, and my 80’s ain’t here yet 😉
Rest up, take it easy. The world will wait for you. We will still be here.
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😂 You so old Shell… you probably require a Congressional forensics investigation into your records of questionable activity in the 19th century!
🤭
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Make sure the R’s do the investigating, I know they won’t find anything 😉
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Just takes time….best to you
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Riding in the car may not have been the best move, but I do understand the lure of the outside world and fresh air. I hope you are feeling fit soon, Nan.
Best wishes, Pete.
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“I’ll whip this thing yet”
Aah, yes, nothing like a little whipping to get the motor running.
😉
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raising one eyebrow. raising the other eyebrow. trying not to blush
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Blush? Oh, please! We are all pretty much too long in the tooth for that these days.
Besides, if a bit of whip-wielding was good enough for Indiana Jones….
😉
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once a blusher, always a blusher. It comes with the territory…
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Sweet!
😊
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Hi Nan. I totally understand. I am sorry you are having to go through this. I wish you a speedy and strong recovery. May I suggest you ask your doctor for muscle relaxers. They help the muscle relax when forced to stay in one place for more than the body part wants to. Hugs. Scottie
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Yikes, this is unfortunate. Best wishes and I hope you get well soon.
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I hope you get well soon, but even if it takes time, I shall eagerly await for your posts.
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I do know that magnesium and Glucosamine for muscles and joints can be a help taken regularly. I exercise regularly and without these supplements I will ache all in every limb. I still pull the odd muscle doing stuff that should be left to those who are much younger, but beyond the pain I actually enjoy myself. Sorry to hear about the pains you are suffering.
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I take the two supplements you mentioned regularly. 🙂 I am well aware of the advantages of exercising, but over the years, life changes often get in the way and unless you’re a devotee (I won’t mention names), it often falls by the wayside.
I have tried to keep up with at least minimal walking, but regrettably it’s not always enough.
In any case, thank you for your good wishes. Slowly, but surely …
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If you have Netflix have a squizz at the short series called The Blue Zones.
Perfect for those of us who ain’t 25 any more.
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Took a quick “squizz” at the promo video and added it to my watch list. I have no doubts that many people can reach “old age” in comparatively good, sometimes great, shape. But much depends on lifestyle, don’t you agree?
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Indeed, and some of what the movie contains I already include in my own daily routine.
But there are other I have subsequently added.
Whatever your current lifestyle it is definitely worth a watch.
I have watched it a few times and it always gives me an uplift and makes me smile.
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I begin to think it’s not as simple as “just age” or lack of exercise or too much of this or not enough of that. but a combination of things–heredity, attitude, general health, diet, luck, and those fun things we all end up being surprised by. Granted, if you have to buy a car that you can actually stuff yourself into, or you have inherited problems, that changes the odds.
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