Do you remember when..............

Get up from the floor without a crane?

Open those dratted bottles like bleach with a squeeze while pushing down and turning technique.

Climb on a chair to reach a high shelf. Step down from a high step without holding on, put on pants without sitting down.

Cut your little toenail ?

Cut any toenails!

You were painfree.

You could sleep all night , without having to go to the loo !

Sit on a low chair without worrying how/if you would be able to get up again.

Go shopping without being out of puff after 5 minutes.

All of those, and I could also run for a bus

climb the stairs without a break on the landing.

Put on fine stockings instead of support socks ?

Unscrew screw-top bottles

Get out of the bath.
Do up a bra without twiddling it around - if you know what I mean.
Sleep all night without getting up to visit the loo.

Going out for a night on the town - in High Heels!

Wearing a bikini on holiday.

Staying up late without longing for my bed after 10.30pm.

Reading without having to search for my reading glasses.

Get out of a low car.

Thread a needle, even with one of those little wire things, without having to keep squinting and wetting the thread and still keep missing.

As Doodle says, but any kind of stockings would do me!

I didn't have to use hair coloring.

10.30pm? Mossfarr you night owl!

I've been known to stagger, exhausted to my bed at 6pm.

Mind you, I do get up very early.

I'm glad to say I can still do a lot of the above things others now find hard but I can't:

Eat wheat without a great deal of discomfort.
Drink alcohol - ditto - I did so love Baileys.
Get out of a swimming pool by just hoisting myself up by the arms.
Sing like I used to.
See like I used to.
Run like mad just for the sheer fun of it.
Stay up all night painting.

But I have done all these things in the past so I'm grateful.

Thought it was only me with cutting my little toe nails!

Give birth and monthly cycles ..

You could stand up from a chair and not pull a muscle in your leg ? I did this yesterday - couldn't believe it .

Reach my toes - come to that see my toes!

Run for anything

Be able to get up off the loo without steadying myself with the sink - no idea why that's suddenly become the norm!

Bend down to pick something up without grunting

Smell and taste properly

The list is endless but hey ho at least I'm still here to have a list