Okay, I know there are women and men, too who are so agile at seventy-three they can do the splits and all kinds of other twists and turns most people that age would not attempt, but I’m not one of them.\u00a0 That said, I did the splits yesterday.<\/p>\n
I am at a never ending battle dusting my old house.\u00a0 Seems it gets dustier sooner than it use to.\u00a0 Someone said that dust was coming from Africa.\u00a0 I don’t know about that, but I do know that my husband and I were sitting out on our porch one day and saw a wall of dust come into our yard. Don’t know where from, but it was a lot of dust.\u00a0 Like a mini dust storm.\u00a0 No wonder my house gets dusty!<\/p>\n
I am constantly Swiffering the floors and dusting the furniture, but next day, dust again.<\/p>\n
Anyway, yesterday I was Swiffering the floor upstairs and was paying such close attention, I didn’t realize one of my feet was on a throw rug and the other on bare floor. Suddenly the rug began to move with my foot following it.\u00a0 My other foot began to slide the opposite direction. I knew I was going down, but what then?\u00a0 \u00a0I literally did the splits, something I have never done in my life even when I was young and limber. A full split, one foot one way and the other foot the other way.\u00a0 All I felt was pain as I landed on a knee that has been bothering me for a while anyway.\u00a0 Oh, the agony!\u00a0 \u00a0 I felt every muscle, every tendon in my lower body cringe with pain.\u00a0 \u00a0Now, how to get up?\u00a0 \u00a0My knee really hurt. All I could think was that David would come home and find me lying on the floor, but I couldn’t let that happen so I began the struggle to get to my feet.\u00a0 I finally righted myself and then wondered what to do.\u00a0 I hurt sooo bad.\u00a0 I had some Tylenol in our bedroom so I went there and took some and laid down for a bit.\u00a0 Would I be able to move again?\u00a0 \u00a0I really was in stress.\u00a0 But I finally got up, made the bed and got myself downstairs where I collapsed in a chair and knitted for a while.<\/p>\n
My head hurt, my back hurt, and my groin, well we won’t go there, but I was in pain.<\/p>\n
As the day wore on I got some housework done, took care of the chickens and did some laundry.\u00a0 I was not going to die or be handicapped in any way because of the splits, but I would not recommend doing them for anyone my age.\u00a0 Especially if you have never done them before.<\/p>\n
But now I can honestly say at the age of seventy-three I have done the splits.\u00a0 Maybe not the way I would have planned, but I did do them and survived.\u00a0 I’m still feeling pretty sore today and sleeping last night was not easy as my knee hurt so badly, but I think I’m going to be okay.<\/p>\n
Have you ever done something you never thought you could do or never planned to do, but it happened?\u00a0 I have done the splits at seventy-three and despite the pain, I’m pretty proud of the fact I lived to tell about it!\u00a0 Bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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