When We Were Invincible

Having spent the Christmas holiday hobbling around my relatives' houses from crutches to rolling chairs to recliners to shower stools to my parents' bed because then I don't have to take the narrow stairs and am steps from a bathroom, I now understand why old people constantly talk about their health.

Especially with people who knew them when they were younger.

Using a shower stool and having to sit on the bathroom floor to put on makeup has been humbling. As has asking my seventy-year-old f...