[77 years old]
Two disconcerting changes I have noticed and which are bothersome are that my knees become inflexible when I wake up or after hours of sitting. The seem to lose elasticity and ease of movement, though that is alleviated once I move them and bend them back and forth.
The other bothersome change is mental. I notice I am forgetting where I was in a conversation. I may be discussing something and at some point I will lose the thread of the conversation. I am lost. Sometimes after a few moments I remember but usually I just change directions losing the previous thread. This same problem occurs when I am trying to solve a computer issue. As I try to solve the problem, I will lose my train of thought, what solutions I havc tried and sometimes even worse, what the issue is that I am working on. That is very disconcerting as I cannot remember where I was.
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My adaptations:
To the knees
I just try to flex my legs and do so repeatedly until the flexibility returns to the knees. But I do not like the feeling that the knees seem immobile at the beginning.
To the loss of mental thread
I can deal with the computer problems as I use a notemaking app to write down what I am doing, the stage I am at.
I have no solution when this loss of thread happens in a conversation.
R. S.
