Keeping active is critical to avoiding your mom’s situation.
I’m pushing 71 and after a serious health issue back in August, I’ve pretty much fully recovered. Now mr. mm and I are outside every nice day we can. I garden and we are cutting, splitting, and stacking next year’s supply of firewood. It’s SO good to get out in the woods and the hard word feels good down the road.
I realize from lots of experience, that the unexpected can happen, but staying in shape helps tremendously with recovery.
I’ll enjoy my retirement in heaven.
We do the gym, pilates and walking. Motion is lotion for your body and joints ... being sedentary leads to muscle atrophy and weakness, leading to falls, leading to hospital visits leading to death.
It's not hard, folks. Get an iPod, download your favorites, slap on your sneakers and hit the road and WALK. Daily. After a spell, you find yourself craving it and certainly feeling better afterwards.
We either pay now with exercise and controlled eating or we pay later with poor health, immobility, illness, and misery ... and the latter is a far higher price to pay.
P.J. O’Rourke lived in New Hampshire. He said there are two seasons there: Winter and Getting-Ready-For-Winter.
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