I can't deny it any longer......

....I am getting old and I am feeling none too chuffed at the realisation!

Old is relative I suppose, in comparison to Tutankhamen let's say, I am but a mere stripling but my wee body is feeling particularly decrepit of late and for me that begins to signify old.

I may still be supple but that is merely down to a natural 'strangeness' in my joints and a childhood and adolescence spent as a gymnast, nothing has yet begun it's gradual 'journey south' but the reason there is only because there is not enough of any part of me to be tempted by gravity and I may still be able to sustain rapid enough leg movement to catch and apprehend a shoplifter occasionally but believe me, today is a very significant day in the 'gemmak is getting old' situation!

And what had cause today to be of heinous significance?.....today, for the first time I have to attend hospital for physiotherapy on what has, courtesy of the very same gymnastic early years, become a knackered left side. Yup, no longer can I ignore it, I am getting old.....the arthritis in my left shoulder, hip, knee and hand (Gah I'm freaking left handed) has become enough of an aggravation to require treatment, this is not good, I am not pleased, I am very dischuffed!

Lord knows what this will involve, doubtless my sore bits will be prodded and poked, I will be pulled into unnatural positions and made to exercise, I don't relish this trip, I suspect that into the bargain I will be chastised for sitting cross legged at this machine for hours on end (well I'm too short for my legs to hit the floor and see the monitor through the correct part of my specs, more proof of old, and cross legged is strangely comfortable anyways) and finally I fear I will be reminded that it is 'my age'.

I am only too well aware that it is my bloody age, that is precisely the problem! Age as a number doesn't concern me, age as a state of bodily bits becoming defunct does! I am told I am relatively young for my hip to be in it's current condition, so much for the childhood of healthy exercise, the constant and extreme pummelling of gymnastics may have been good for the heart and lungs etc. but it sure as hell ain't good for the joints!

Young I may be for this physiological state but it still makes me feel old!

Ah well, best I get used to it.......

fffbbbppppptt!