”Lost the will to get up. Tend to stay in bed most mornings. Often til 11 Don’t care what I look like. Uninterested in clothes shopping. No wish to go on a cruise or go out to eat. Don’t go to exercise classes or gym. Taken to wine in the evenings. No relatives within 200…
What a year! No, not politics.
Just want to share with you my absolute amazement at what being in your 84 th year can be like.
Stranded! Beached whale feeling. But that rapidly turned to chuckles.
“I have to ask for help to get up from a chair in the office of an organisation that espouses Age Friendly places!”
Lovely….However what was really interesting was that it had never occurred to them.
Seriously, I am not worried about the body stuff, except for total concentration on comfort and ease. Beginning to think that by 83 bodies need cherishing not bullying.
Retired’ is not an occupation, but there it is, on the form, at the bottom of the list. Or maybe, even worse, you are expected to tick ‘None‘.
A friend of mine with terminal cancer had his funeral party before he died!. He organised it and it was a great occasion. Everyone telling stories and jokes about him. We all enjoyed it.
