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Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 13:48:37
It's taking A LOT to get through this day.
Posted by gadchik on June 7, 2013, at 14:14:42
In reply to I feel like crap, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 13:48:37
I wish u luck to get thru this day and to offer my own miserable day...Im in a bout of sciatica that will not end, and last night I took bit of remeron. Today, bad hangover from that small bit...I wish I could be 10 again, and racing my bike along a sidewalk in a gorgeous park with azelias in bloom..
Posted by gadchik on June 7, 2013, at 14:25:00
In reply to I feel like crap, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 13:48:37
Unproductive day-sitting in recliner with heating pad, watching Life with LaToya...
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 16:00:40
In reply to Re: I feel like crap » sleepygirl2, posted by gadchik on June 7, 2013, at 14:25:00
I'm working. I'd rather be hibernating.
Posted by no rose garden on June 7, 2013, at 18:14:58
In reply to I feel like crap, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 13:48:37
You can do it sg....a day at a time. Hang in there. ((()))
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 7:37:26
In reply to To Be 10 again... » sleepygirl2, posted by gadchik on June 7, 2013, at 14:14:42
Plenty of time, with sciatica, to reflect on consciousness, pain, the passing time, the necessity for patience, and the need to remain if not calm, then in some sort of equilibrium. Good training, I tell myself, for the rest of my life.
Pilates helped me a lot with my back.
I'm not sure I was happy when I was 10, but I was a good deal less cynical than I am now.
Posted by Phillipa on June 8, 2013, at 9:46:57
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 7:37:26
Is your back not allowing you to do certain things also? I'm in PT you would not believe the curvature of spine with all the other stuff PJ
Posted by Beckett on June 8, 2013, at 12:37:33
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 7:37:26
> Plenty of time, with sciatica, to reflect on consciousness, pain, the passing time, the necessity for patience, and the need to remain if not calm, then in some sort of equilibrium. Good training, I tell myself, for the rest of my life.
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> Pilates helped me a lot with my back.
>
> I'm not sure I was happy when I was 10, but I was a good deal less cynical than I am now.You probably rode bike a wee faster.
Posted by gadchik on June 8, 2013, at 13:06:46
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 7:37:26
It has been said, somewhere, that 10 is the happiest age and 44 the unhappiest. This certainly rings true for me. 10 was before the dreaded self consciousness of tweenhood, and before the angst of teenhood. 44 was the year of my life when I slid into the most dreadful abyss of depression I have known. Now, staring 50 down the barrel, Im dealing with aches and pains such as I have never known. But, Im psychologically "all there", and mental health, feeling content, means the world to me, now.
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:08:05
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by Phillipa on June 8, 2013, at 9:46:57
No *that* problem is kind of quiescent now, although I make a point of trying to be careful with my posture and I do pilates.
Of course I have another problem. The vertebral column is so long.
I have this skoliosis, don't know whether it matters, but atm I have something similar to sciatica but in my arm.
Well, with age often people end up with curvature of the spine until, and you know what.....
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:14:29
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by Beckett on June 8, 2013, at 12:37:33
I have not been bike riding yet.
Mi profesor de espanol hizo reirme cuando me dijo 'Estoy buscando por un salida con dignidad de esta planeta'.
It was 'esta planeta' that made me laugh.
I can buy Tramadol otc and made sure I bought up big.
I want to go here
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:19:36
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by gadchik on June 8, 2013, at 13:06:46
My wife and I were talking about the journey and how it is so much worse than the destination <joke!> and she said it was important to be able to figure out what you simply cannot stand (without reservation or embarrassment).
When you are younger you have so many ideas about how you ought to be.
I manage to laugh much more than I used to.
Nothing matters, there's nothing to be frightened of, and so on and so forth, it's all very scary but it can be fun.
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:30:23
In reply to Re: I feel like crap » gadchik, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 7, 2013, at 16:00:40
Talking about hibernating, it was Corpus Cristie here recently with numerous really heavy saints being carried along by 50 people or so, often with a couple of tons of concrete just to give the feeling of suffering.
But in the past, before the Christian dispensation, the mummies of the Incas were brought, each from his own palace, and paraded around the Plaza de Armas. With plenty of attention, women to wave off the flies, plenty of food and drink.
People should not worry about being mad, they really shouldn't.
I must say I am enjoying harina de coca mixed with a little Jamaican rum.
Posted by Beckett on June 8, 2013, at 13:33:44
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » Beckett, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:14:29
>'Estoy buscando por un salida con dignidad de esta planeta'.
¿Que? I can't quite translate.
Tramadol is great for nerve pain.
Cool looking place. I'll look up it''s function.
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 14:37:30
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by Beckett on June 8, 2013, at 13:33:44
I am looking for a dignified exit from this planet.
Posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 14:42:34
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by Beckett on June 8, 2013, at 13:33:44
I can buy real noni fruit for 50c a fruit in the market.
I have this idea for me, for hopeless cases, that noni plus ganoderma lucidum could be useful.
This drink is a very appealing shade of green.
Posted by gadchik on June 8, 2013, at 15:45:15
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:19:36
We are here to experience it all, pain, pleasure, happiness, despair. I dont want to fear any emotion now. I laugh loudly and sob just as loud. The thing I fear,decrepitness. I will stay in motion, that's what Ive always loved-being mobile.
Posted by Phillipa on June 8, 2013, at 21:01:17
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » Phillipa, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:08:05
Sigi got all this also but refuse to stop riding my bike. So I have pain all the time other than when sitting incorrectly and when sleeping. PJ
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 8, 2013, at 21:04:18
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » Beckett, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:14:29
Wow, sig. That's really nice. :-)
I hope you get there soon.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 8, 2013, at 21:10:21
In reply to To Be 10 again... » sleepygirl2, posted by gadchik on June 7, 2013, at 14:14:42
When I was 10, I would take long walks, by myself, and they were great. I found lots of cool places. And I was on my bike a lot too. I never get to do that now.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 8, 2013, at 21:11:28
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sigismund on June 8, 2013, at 13:19:36
I can only hope I'll get there one day.
Posted by gadchik on June 9, 2013, at 8:52:56
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » gadchik, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 8, 2013, at 21:10:21
I remember being in a big field by myself when I was say 8 or 10, and just twirling, twirling, doing ballet, so I thought. Pure joy at moving! I recently rode a bike on vacation in Duck. Rode to the village for lattes, and I felt giddy with the air blowing past me, my brain remembered a long ago time at 10 on my bike : )
Posted by sigismund on June 9, 2013, at 9:56:52
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on June 8, 2013, at 21:04:18
No, I'm there now. In Cusco.
My physio had an intern (I guess you would call her) from California and we were making sense of my symptoms in English and talking about being here and I said I liked the Peruvian culture because it was soft and gentle, and not competitive like Australia, and she said "Then you wouldn't like the US', to which I agreed.
There is this reserve and hardness in the culture I come from, a sink or swim kind of thing, it's so cold. I feel it most at parties, which are simply the sorts of thing I should avoid.
Speaking of that sink or swim thing, that is why, when I was at school, I could not get outraged by the sexual abuse thing. After all if your parents are prepared to let you drown to prove you can be a man, what's a little sexual abuse on top?
I think that outlook, sink or swim, is so terrible, especially when applied to your own children.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 9, 2013, at 14:35:35
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sleepygirl2, posted by sigismund on June 9, 2013, at 9:56:52
"There, little baby, go sink or swim,
I brought you into the world, what more should I do? Do you expect me always to be responsible for you?"
-Stevie SmithIt's a cold thing. I like independence, but I don't worship it.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on June 9, 2013, at 14:36:56
In reply to Re: To Be 10 again... » sleepygirl2, posted by gadchik on June 9, 2013, at 8:52:56
I keep looking at bicycles in stores. Some if them are very simple. That's what I want, and something with a cushy seat.
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