Transitions

Do NOT google that word! I'll save you the time. There are pages of various categories of transitions. Here is one that many of you may have recently encountered. One that sometimes comes after transitions from single to married; from free range newlyweds to new parents; from parents of teenagers to empty nesters; from productive member of the workforce to retiree.

That of the morning transition from horizontal to vertical.

Often this is forced upon me with some urgency as one of the larger leg muscles decides to wake me up by rapidly transitioning from totally relaxed to full cramping flexed. When this happens, my back has little say in the matter. The cramping leg is in total control. Up we go, now!

More often the transition is much slower, usually initiated by the bladder which has reached it's shot glass capacity. First, I throw the legs over the side to let gravity assist the transition to vertical. Simply let the body pivot on the upper legs into the seated position. Then work on actually standing up.

At this point the back chimes in with "not so fast", seems that the vertebrae need time and possibly several attempts to compress into a mode that doesn't resemble something way down that Darwinian chart of progression.You know, the one that covers all 6000 years since creation.

Right now you young snipper whappers are saying, "must be nice (sad) to have nothing better to do than spend your whole morning blogging about getting out of bed". I'm just trying to pass on the one thing we old farts are certain of. Take care of your body; it won't last long enough and it WILL get even.

Last week my health care provider informed me that I could no longer take any form of statin. Seems that they elevate my CK levels and are causing me joint and muscle pain. No kidding?

And one last thing, it may take up to two years to get them out of your system. WTF?

I think I'll go back to bed.