Seniors

"lessons for being old". The way it is, we get here and have to figure it all out ourselves, sometimes alone with no one about to call to for help if we need it. That's why those emergency devices are important to have. I don't have one yet, as I live with family. If I need help, I just call them on my cell phone (which I always have in my handy dandy 3-pocketed apron) and they are johnny on the spot in about 1 minute or less.

I'm the ripe old age of 75. I haven't fallen yet, but I do get on the floor sometimes when I'm doing something on the bottom shelf of a book case or cabinet, etc. I get up like a baby does when it learns how to walk. From sitting position, I pivot to my hands and knees, then hands and feet (one leg at a time), then walk feet forward inch by inch with hands stationary on the floor, and from there you can rise up to standing position.

I lied. I have fallen, but not from a standing position. I am a sleep-fighter. Does anyone have that problem? I go to sleep sitting at the computer in my swivel computer chair. When I fall to sleep, for some reason I fall to my left (though I am right--handed). OK. So when I fall to sleep my body swivels to the left and I don't wake up until I'm half-way to the floor and can't stop the fall. Haven't broken any bones yet, especially my left arm as it is the body part that takes the brunt of the fall. It is frightening, though. I learned to not try to get up immediately. Just lay there and don't move for a few minutes until the shock has passed. Like I described above, get up like a baby, first getting to sitting position. Haven't fallen like that in about a year, and I hope I never do it again.

I tell myself "ReRe, do your neb, take your meds and go to bed!