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orleans

(35,150 posts) Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:22 PM Yesterday

"i'm at that age...

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actually i've been at that age for a few years now but i'm a slow learner apparently (or i think i can do it or handle it *this* time)
(i usually can't)

live and learn, then live and learn again.

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"i'm at that age... (Original Post) orleans Yesterday OP

After waking, I look in the bed every morning to see what fell off during the night surfered Yesterday #1

After I get up I evaluate what part still hurts from yesterday. Ocelot II Yesterday #2

Be glad it whispers rather than shouts. Harker Yesterday #3

I can still do the things today that I used to do. House of Roberts Yesterday #4

surfered

(3,549 posts)

1. After waking, I look in the bed every morning to see what fell off during the night

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:24 PM

Yesterday

Ocelot II

(121,247 posts)

2. After I get up I evaluate what part still hurts from yesterday.

Reply to surfered (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 12:28 PM

Yesterday

Harker

(15,134 posts)

3. Be glad it whispers rather than shouts.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 01:13 PM

Yesterday

Life is, in part, an exercise in pain avoidance and pain management.

House of Roberts

(5,733 posts)

4. I can still do the things today that I used to do.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 01:37 PM

Yesterday

Now, however, my body lets me know the next day what things I should anticipate convalescence for a couple of days after I do them again.

I'm about to go out and split firewood again, unless I change my mind and bag leaves. Either one will make me hurt tomorrow.

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