Creak, Creak, Crack!

[poliphilo]

The theme of my dreams is difficulty. So, last night I was at a Test Match and having difficulty seeing the game. And after that I was in Canterbury cathedral and  having difficulty taking photos (even though they'd removed the roof and there was much more light that usual). 

Does this reflect my daytime experience?  I suppose it does. Life is difficult and getting more so. Like in the supermarket the other day- when I noticed what a performance it was getting things off a lower shelf. Not impossible, but difficult. First I had to get down there to floor level- creak, creak, creak- then I had to reach into the shelf because the stuff I was after had been pushed way back- creak, creak, creak- and then- very much the worst of all- I had to get up again- creak, creak, crack. I wouldn't say it was painful- at least not sharp and creasing- just effortful - like having to work with a very slow, broadband connection. 

Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I'm not raging against old age. It's just that I dont entirely believe in it. (which could be why the dreams keep hammering away at the theme).   Walking, kneeling, getting out of a chair- these are all such simple things- so how can I possibly find them hard?  It's an act, isn't it- a way of trolling for sympathy? And I need to snap out of it. Now!

Comments

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Yes, both upper and lower shelves present a challenge - I ask a grocery clerk to help on days when I am too stiff to negotiate them. Days like today, cold and wet - or like last July, hot and very humid. It's funny but when it's zero Fahrenheit with very dry air, or 90 F. with no humidity to speak of, I am nimble, I am quick, tee hee. I get plenty of exercise, going through ballet barre exercises (modified for old age) out in the atrium. There is a rail running around the entire hallway. The answer is not lack of exercise - if it were, then I would have no stiffness at all.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Climate has a lot to do with it.

I live in one of the worst places in the UK for arthritis sufferers. Very mild, very damp.

[daisytells.livejournal.com]

Same thing with New England - most people here have one jkind of arthritis or other from middle age on.