“The older I get the less surprised I think I’d be if a random body part just fell off one day.” Aging is difficult. But what’s the alternative? I think back to when I was a teenager. I thought 40 was old and I could not imagine how things would be at that age. Would I be married? Would I have children? Would I own a house? What kind of job would I have? Would one of my body parts fall off? No, wait, I never thought about the last one….until now. 40 seemed a long way off and I didn’t dwell on it. I would have paid more attention to my body if I had been warned I might lose a part. I actually do know a few folks who have lost a body part, but I know it didn’t just happen one day. Thankfully, I still have all mine, but a few have been modified to keep them functional and mostly pain-free. After thinking about all this, I’ll probably have some crazy dream, like the one we’ve all had, when we forgot to get dressed and showed up to school naked….oh wait. You never had that dream? Never mind.
