The overall feeling I am getting here is "old" is bad...or at least that is what people feel I am saying… and it isn't. It is reality that is all.... as long as you're standing upright and not taking a dirt nap it is all good.
However there comes a time in one’s life, and it is inevitable, that you are in fact thought of as old by the society in which you live. I use it more as a qualifier or an attention getter or simply as a level of achievement. As my mother said when she hit 60, "Finally, I can say whatever I want and people and not get in as much trouble for it because I’m old now and it is expected of me" She also had a conversation (a couple years ago) with 2 other women complaining about being old and how bad it was and telling her that she would understand when she was there age...they were 75 and 76..... They then asked my mother how old she was...she said 80...and she was 80 at the time. This is my view of "old", basically it is just a number and it means little, you can be a healthy 80 or an unhealthy 20. However you do get some limitations at 80 you may not have had at 20 but you have had 60 years to get use to that so it is all good
However the fact is I do not heal like I did when I was in my 20s or 30s and that says I am getting older. I will admit with my knees I am at times walking like I am much older and I don't much like that. That is why I stopped being stubborn and started listening to what my body was telling me, or trying to tell me, with the pain. Surprisingly one of the things (and there were several) I discovered was that when I walk I was tensing my upper back and that effected the way I walk and caused me more knee pain. Loosen the upper back, less pain. The whole make a friend of pain thing actually works…who knew. It was after this I came to the conclusion that I need to strengthen the knees. There was some lateral movement going on in the left and the right that was not helping at all. And then I came to the conclusion that I was out of my league as to what to do to strengthen them properly, what I was using was not working, even with my past history of PT for my knees. So I thought maybe a personal trainer and found one in my area that seemed to be good. Based on some answers in this thread I have done a bit more research and the guy they want me to see is well qualified to deal with this as it applies to sports, sports injuries and recovery.
I have answered some questions already but to answer a few more answers
I see an acupuncturist every day; I am married to a TCM doctor from China who was the acting head of the acupuncture department in the TCM department of her hospital before she came here. I get acupuncture quite often and it helps. However it does not strengthen and that is what I need because without that my office will cripple me and I really don’t want that to happen.
Age…. Right around 1/20th of a millennium
Diet… Thank you and I am happy it works for you but the Paleo diet for me…no. I know there are those that swear by it. Tell you it is great and how awesome they feel but it is, IMO, not balanced and therefore not for me. I tend to do my best at following the TCM approach to food (reason see answer about acupuncturist). She is already convinced I eat too much meat (too much heat in my body per the TCM view) and I did cut way back for a while and was darn close to a vegan at one point, which my acupuncturist did not agree with either. I returned to eating more meat (balanced diet thing) and I felt better. Nothing wrong with vegetarian or vegan either it is just way to complicated for me to keep things in balance.
At this point I am waiting for the trainer to get back to me to set up a time to meet
Thanks all for the responses and help.
but its certainly a fair point to bring up. I don't care for the name either.
