An Off-Week Goodie: That Day I Got Old

by Kassandra Lamb ~ With my seventieth birthday looming, I figured a reblog of this post, That Day I Got Old, by my good friend Barb Taub would be an appropriate off-week goodie.

Yup, you read that right, my seventieth birthday, as in seven-zero, is happening in less than two weeks. How can that be? Btw, I had to look up how to spell seventieth. I had no clue. I’ve never had to count birthdays that high before. At least, not my birthdays!

But leave it to Barb to make even getting old seem funny.

Here is… That Day I Got Old

by Barb Taub

In the early days of the pandemic, I  told my daughter I was making face masks to distribute to vulnerable neighbors.

Me: We have to pull together to make sure vulnerable people are safe.

Daughter: Mama, you do know YOU’RE one of the vulnerable.

Me: !!!!

Well, I took a happy trip up the River Denial, and managed to convince myself a mistake had been made with that one. It lasted until last weekend when a nurse sat down with me at Crosshouse Hospital (see that story here) to fill out the intake form. Only… somehow there were a lot of new things she wanted to know.

Gone were the questions about my units of alcohol, tobacco, and drug consumption, my chances of being pregnant, and other exciting lifestyle commentaries. Instead, she had very different concerns.

Nurse: What hours do your carers look after you?

Me: Carers?

Nurse: Can you read your prescription directions?

Me: Read?

Nurse: Are you continent? 

Me: Are you serious?

READ MORE of That Day I Got Old HERE…

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Posted by Kassandra Lamb. Kassandra is a retired psychotherapist turned mystery writer. She is the author of the Kate Huntington psychological mysteries, set in her native Maryland, and the Marcia Banks and Buddy cozy mysteries, set in Central Florida. Plus she has started a new police procedural series, also set in Florida—The C.o.P. on the Scene mysteries. And she writes romantic suspense under the pen name of Jessica Dale.

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