50 sense

People ,for some reason, reach an age where discussions of sickness and health seem to run rampant in conversation. I have always joked or rather made fun of getting to that age where I am consumed with talks of illness and such. I may have reached that age as I slide into 52.

I have always been pretty healthy, in fact extremely healthy. This is probably why I tend to roll my eyes when those health discussions arise.In September, I was suddenly stricken with an illness that took awhile for the doctors to figure out. As they scratched their heads, I got weaker and weaker. Long story short, they figured it out; I got radiated; and after nine weeks off work I am all well.

Serious illness really shakes up your world and gives you a glimpse of what being feeble will be like. Maybe that's why my peers who are in my age group called the "youth of old age" talk about health and illness. It may come from an experience that was filled with fear and pain. Now I that I have moped a mile in their slippers I am a little more compassionate and a lot more understanding .