Old Lady Toes…

This spring my sister informed me that I had “old lady toes”. And to tend to hers she now has “yoga toes” which means she puts polish on them to hide her old lady look. Shortly after I also and since have enjoyed yoga toes.

Ah…da-Nile isn’t simply a river in the Middle East!

Old lady toes means they yellow and thicken and don’t look as nice as they once did.

Add that to thinning gray hair and my attempts with products to color and thicken it and the use of a product to grow it back, wrinkles seemingly everywhere that I cover with special creams in hopes to have them less obvious, and nails that split easily and the products I use to give them strength I am keeping several companies in business!

Old lady toes, hair, skin, nails and that’s all on the outside! I hate to even think of what is happening on the inside of this not so young anymore body I inhabit!

Oh the joys of an aging body!

I don’t recall anyone warning me that all this would be coming so soon either. I suppose these realities are not so easy to acknowledge let alone discuss.

Recently I found an ad in the newspaper that starts with the title “Grandma, your breath stinks!” Apparently bad breath is very common in seniors because for many of us we produce less saliva as we age. Saliva acts as a natural mouth rinse the ad states. Oh great look what else I have to look forward to!

At least now-a-days we have the luxury of affordable products our grandmothers and father didn’t have!

For the moment I am going to row row row my boat with my pretty yoga toes, thicker colored over gray hair, and skin doused in creams down that river in da-Nile for a long as I possibly can!

What changes are you noticing as your body is getting older?