Aging Project XXVIII

Aging Project               80.39 years 

I rarely post color photos, but why not? It's a lot less work for me, and they are, after all, not art photos, but photos of record. A color photo also gives more information than a black-and-white photo. Since my goal here is to document the process of my aging, information is what it's all about.

In my previous post in this series, I mentioned having hurt my shoulder. Actually, I've figured out what happened, and it wasn't exactly that. About six years ago, while we were living in Uruguay, I badly pulled (tore? I don't know) a deltoid muscle in my left arm. It took about six months to heal, and it has been vulnerable to injury since then. I injured it again in the course of taking the cover off our new hot tub.

It's all too easy to forget that, as seniors, we are much more vulnerable to injuries than we were when we were younger.

Get someone to help you, or devise a method for doing the job that will put less strain on your body.

My current weight is 141.0 lbs. (64.1 kg). In three days I've gained 1.4 lbs. (.6 kg), and that's what allowing yourself a beer now and then, or maybe some snack crackers, will do for you. At least my wedding ring isn't falling off anymore. But I've got to watch it, because the weight goes right to my gut.

I'm still walking Betty, our dog, for about half an hour every day (except today, because here on the Gulf coast of central Florida it's quite stormy right now. Betty hates that, and I don't like it much, either).

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