Aging

I guess this is in response to growing old . When i was around the age of 29 , i started to notice people around me getting old . Especially Dad . Dad really had a rough time with physical problems . Dad got blood poison in his right ankle from brick falling on his foot back in 1958 , The poison was contained but not before the puss had eaten the bone up in his ankle . He was forced to wear a brace the rest of his life . He worked 5 years after that in constant pain in his foot because of the brace not fitting right . I noticed he had began to cough and found he had walking pneumonia . They said it was no cure for it . He would get up every morning and cough up that stuff for hours . This happened all thru the day . I saw a frail man whose skin was wrinkling up more faster than a normal person . That was when i really became aware of aging . That walking pneumonia finally ended his life in 1983 . The fluid had built up around his heart and he more or less drowned in his own fluids .
I watched another man one day that came into a small Country store . He was old and his hand shaked real bad . He bought a Pepsi and a pack of quackers . He went outside and sit down too drink his drink . I watched and he had a hard time holding his drink to sip it . That teared me up so bad i had to leave . I guess i cried all the way home .
Now i am getting old and i see so much i can't do anymore . Since i can only get around on crutches it is slowly taking a told on me . i can't do much of anything anymore . I try to keep my house clean but have to let a lot of it go .
I do have a young mind locked up in a body that i deal with . There is one thing i can do as long as i can see , is write what my heart feels . My stories and writing's may die with me . Hopefully someone whom reads my blogs will learn and maybe smile a little .
I don't need pity , i have had enough of that . Writing makes me feel good , sometimes sad , but the rewards i get from writing my feelings keep me going.
People ! Write you feeling down . Don't keep them welled up inside . I am proud too be able to put some of my blogs here . Hopefully when my time comes to be with My Lord these writings will be shared with others .

Written by Wayne (Onetooth) May 30th 2008