I’m old …there are days when I feel like I am 25…biking , swimming, yard work…but then lately i wake up and I literally can’t get out of bed…I’m not as much in pain as it is aching and tired…but who isn’t at 72 ???….lol

I am OLD…….I know to say that is a acknowledgement of who I am and where I am in life. Believe me I am not surprised. My first realison of morality came many years ago because of a car accident that happened while I was in the prime of my life.

I was 28 ….I was in training to become a Providence Firefighter. I could run 5 miles a day without breaking a sweat . I lead the cadets in pull ups, sit ups, driving the apparatus, and because i was one of the older recruits with a name that they knew …

( My Dad)…lol….I had a reputation to live up to. No problem….I was in my prime…lets GO!!!!

Then everything changed…a car accident…almost paralyzed for life…

yad yad yad …lol

I recovered, married my sweetheart and moved on with a new direction

The love and breath of my life has been with me for over 50 years. JoAnn…my perfect companion .

Today I consider myself a am a lucky man

I have friends and family who love me.

But Im starting to fall apart.

Last year I woke up on a beautiful summer day not feeling myself. I was tired and could barely get out of bed. Well it got worse . I ended up in the hospital…almost dead from a low red blood hemoglobin count,

Wait how did this happen? Three days prior to this I had ridden 20 miles on my bike with no repercussions …that i could feel…lol

Well I rcovered…slowly… It seems everthing happens more slowly now.

Today a year later I’m still dealing with the hemoglobin thing,

Physically it doesn’t bother me …I have been thru worse and I am used to working around things but its my inability to be reliable to family and friends that gets to me. I dont know how that I am gonna feel literally from one day to the next right now…and that sucks…

Everyone has something in their life that they have to overcome or deal with and my “ problems” are small compared to others …..I will figure it out…I always do.