It's Just Old Age, Honey

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A friend of mine…

Suggested buying Absorbine Jr…use it to repel bugs…ward off gnats…does the job…but now one of us is seeing that bottle in a different light…an old people light…

The back acting up…spasms, twinges, something unrelenting in the middle left…different this time…

Got desperate…decided to reach for the bottle…the green bottle…but felt a little twinge…a little twinge not in the back…a little twinge in the gut…

The omg-you’re-suddenly-old twinge…or more like punch…gut punch…the irony of little me chuckling at those commercials so many years ago…old people commercials…I’ll-never-need-that commercials…

Poligrip…Geritol…Phillip’s Milk of Magnesia…and now reaching for that bottle…that aching body bottle…feels like admitting defeat…like serving up a piece of humble pie…

While also falling down that rabbit hole…the I-used-to-be-able-to-lift-totes-and-not-get-hurt rabbit hole…with thoughts getting curiouser and curiouser…like maybe it’s not my back…maybe it’s something worse…gallbladder…pancreas…the need for Metamucil…

And so it is…in life…sometimes living in this Wonderland of aging can make you feel a little crazy…or maybe a little mad…mad at those body parts that seem to betray you when you least expect it…

But as that husband of mine would say…”It’s just old age, Honey”…

And it is…of course it is…so off with the cap…Absorbine Jr. it is…because one of us doesn’t want to be late…for what is sure to be a very important date…
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And this husband of mine…agrees…