It's pretty bad when my 71 year old mommy can get around better then her 26 year old daughter(me) and her 52 year old son....LOL!!
Yeah, my mother is going to be 71 in 6 more days. And me and my 52 year old brother were visiting her thursday, becuase he took me to my doc appointment. I just realized that my mommy gets around better then me and my brother. My brother has some kind of arthritis that eats up cartliage, well, it has just about ate up the cartliage in his right knee. You should have seen me and him walking .... we looked like a couple of "old" people...lol. And then our own mommy did not even look like she was having any kind of problems. It was just weird. And then my mommy does not even look 71, she looks like she is in her late 50's early 60's.
Just thought I would let ya'll know of the weirdness...lol...just wanted to share
I learned this lesson five years ago when my mother-in-law, then 90, took me on a five-mile hike in New York City and almost killed me! I didn't get over that one for weeks. Here she is, now 95, doesn't take a pill of any kind, and her only apparent health issue is macular degeneration. I'm 35-years younger and have trouble getting up from a chair. Janis I had to chime in on this woman cause I can defenitely feel your pain. My mom will be 65 in 2 months and she is in better health than all of her children. Im 28 and my Mom has to help me get around because of my Arthritis and Fibro. She is so spry, and does not look a day over 50. My sister is 45 and has had a few surguries for female problems and guess who took care of her as well. At this rate I figure me and my sister will be in the nursing home when my Mom retires and she'll be on a cruise in Hawaii!!!!!
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pretty bad when my 71 year old mommy can get around better then her 26
year old daughter(me) and her 52 year old son....LOL!! [/quote] You should see my mother in law!!!!!! The woman is 83 yrs old and she can put us all to shame!!!!
xoxoxxox meme Hi Joonie
This is a crazy club we are all a part of is'nt it, but, I definately feel I belong here
I hope you and your family have a really nice weekend!
Actually me and my brother were laughing about it when we were coming out of my docs office...lol...we were both wobbling, limping, slow as turtles, and looked like we had some kinda "retardness"...lol...but we were laughing and told mommy about it...and she just shook her head. Cris - As, for the older nieces & nephews, I have a niece that is 2 years older then me, and 1 nephew & 1 niece that is about a lil' over a year younger than me. And the rest are within 2-3 years younger then me. My mom made my nieces and nephews call me "Aunt June", just to teach them respect. But, now they just call me June, and my great nieces and nephews are told, by my mommy, to call me "Aunt June". But when they are around and my mommy isn't they just call me June. It does not matter either way. As long as it is not a rude name...lol
I do have an aunt that loves me very much. She tried to help when my mother was dying, by getting a free hospital bed from the American Cancer Society. It was a worse bed than the one we had rented, which was fine, but my mother let us put her in it to please her sister. My aunt thought that we felt that she wasn't doing enough, but her husband wouldn't let her do what she wanted to. She was an RN. She helped tremendously, but felt guilty because she wanted to do more and felt restricted by her huband. Oh, man - this should be on a different post entirely, but my mom was older when I was born, too. The last of 8 children with the smaller than usual gap between aunt and nephew. I guess I just spewed - thanks all, for having the patience to deal with it. zzoi
I find it so interesting to meet people who have that much of an age
difference between their mother and themselves with the older siblings
who are old enough to be their parents. Did you always get asked
if that was your grandmother? Do you have neices and nephews your
age or older? I ask this because I have had all of that. In
my family, my mother, sister and two SILs were all pregnant around the
same time. One gave birth in Aug. Then, a long pause and
then one in Dec. one in Jan and one in Feb. So my oldest nephew
is 5 months older than me. Then one is 12 days older (he was most
annoying about it) and my neice is a month younger. It made
school annoying for me. I tried acting like I did not know the
boys. Then I have another neice and more nephews that are younger
but 2 of them within 4 years. None were allowed to use Aunt
before my name and none do now. My sisters kids call me Sissie
because that is what my sister calls me. Now my neice is asking
so what should my son call you? Aunty Sissie? She did tell her ex
hubby who is 8 years older than me that he had to call me Aunt and Gar
uncle when we first met him. I told him if he did, I'd smack him.
again sorry for the long post, I must have a case of runny fingers.
hugs, wayney
Nope no one ever asked if my mom was my grandma, when she was in her 50's she looked 35-40. She never has looked her age. My friends were always amazed when I would tell them her actual age.
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