Quote Originally Posted by Aromig View Post
I think this is it. I broke my leg 18 months ago (just before I turned 40). The rehab took forever - and I still don't think I'm where I was before. Quite the contrast to injuries I had in my twenties. Now I KNOW what can happen and that it will take a while to fix, so I find myself being a lot more cautious.
In the last five years, I've broken ribs and bruised a kidney (a fall off a ladder in the garage), had my fifth right knee surgery (slipped on ice while shoveling the driveway), and ruptured a disk in my back (hit a giant pothole on my scooter). it takes forever to heal any more. But more than that is why I get hurt when the exact same things wouldn't have hurt me as badly a few years ago. Is it because my reactions are slowing down, is my post menopausal body, a combination of the two? Any way I slice it, I just have to use more caution now.