{"id":3346,"date":"2013-06-07T01:17:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2013-06-06T14:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T21:20:31","slug":"lessons-learned-this-side-of-the-sod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suddenalarm.blaseckie.ca\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned this side of the sod #8"},"content":{"rendered":"

#8. Adjustments<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"P1040187\"<\/a>At 23 I could go through a night of the flu, rolled up in a house coat on the floor of the bathroom, grateful for my foresight in cleaning the toilet on the weekend.\u00a0 By 5:30 p.m. after an afternoon catching up on soaps and Columbo, I\u2019d be sitting up, taking nourishment. Then by 8:30 p.m., after a few phone calls I’d be going through the closet for something to wear to the club.<\/p>\n

It’s Thursday, after all.<\/p>\n

At 33, getting sick was not an option. Because the laundry piles up, the sink will be full of pans with curdled \"P1040331<\/a>milk and\/or soggy cheerios at the bottom and there’s \u00a0stew caked on the inside of the kettle. Bales of popsicles laid in for flu season will have vaporized leaving behind sticks stuck to every piece of furniture in the living room and plastic wrappers hanging from the dog\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n

At 43 nursing a cold with a toddy and a nap sounds like a great idea but there are concerts, school fund raisers, end of year award ceremonies and there’s no spare time to entertain a virus.<\/p>\n

Now I\u2019m into my 50\u2019s and who needs a flu virus to feel like crap? This is the beginning of that stage where I get sore from sitting too long and end up completely crippled for days from sleeping wrong.<\/p>\n

\"P1040229<\/a>The biggest adjustment is realizing it\u2019s easy to say \u2018you\u2019re only as old as you feel\u2019 when you can stand up without having to think about it.<\/p>\n

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