Boomer Wellness Retirement Zone

What hap­pens when “Nurse Well­ness” (that’s me) has to have knee surgery for a torn menis­cus at age 66 and never has had surgery before? Let’s ana­lyze this.

Hooray for Healthy Aging

Can we have applause for a woman my age  who is healthy enough to avoid surgery, hos­pi­tal­iza­tion and meds after all these years?  Yes it can be done, and since my entire career has been devoted to well­ness and liv­ing a healthy lifestyle, the pay­off is feel­ing great, no health­care expenses (except for the ridicu­lously high pre­mi­ums I can’t avoid) and moti­va­tion to keep on liv­ing long after 100.

Hooray for Healthy Joints

Sec­ondly, why did I have a torn menis­cus with­out hav­ing an injury or being a com­pet­i­tive ath­lete?  Guess that means  the body does suc­cumb to wear and tear after 66 years of being active with exer­cise, twist­ing, sit­ting on my feet with tightly bent knees since I was a kid (Japan­ese style) and other seem­ingly benign events that lead to grad­ual dete­ri­o­ra­tion.  I was shocked that this could hap­pen to me, but now appre­ci­ate even more the abil­ity of the joints to keep on going for 66 years before the start to show wear.  And of course thank me for being smart enough to take high qual­ity nutri­tion­als and glu­cosamine to keep them as healthy as they can be.  www.carolebert.usana.com

Hooray for Qual­ity Healthcare

I’m for­tu­nate to live where there is read­ily acces­si­ble qual­ity health­care with no wait­ing.  Hav­ing begun my career as a nurse, but shift­ing into pre­ven­tion where I felt I could do more good,  I know how the sys­tem works  includ­ing its flaws and strengths.  In my case, all I expe­ri­enced was the strengths which was very reas­sur­ing.  And even though  I am often frus­trated with this money-hungry sys­tem, when it comes to alle­vi­at­ing pain with a sim­ple pro­ce­dure, I am totally sup­port­ive of what they can do.  

Hooray for Rapid  Recov­ery  After  Surgery

After my first and only surgery — and it was all done in one day,  I was pleas­antly sur­prised that I had no anes­the­sia hang­over and no post-op pain.  How is that pos­si­ble?  As they wheeled my out to my car, the nurses at the nurse’s sta­tion (whom know me) said “you don’t even look like you had surgery today”.  Another rea­son why liv­ing a healthy lifestyle really pays off!  Plus when I went home, I was awake, alert and ate a big meal.  No surgery resid­ual for me!

So my words of wis­dom are to keep on doing healthy things and if you have fallen off the wagon, get right back on.  The rewards are amaz­ing!  And if you have a torn menis­cus, may it be a minis­cule one.

Be well on YOUR well­ness journey.

Carol Ebert

carol@creatingwellnesscultures.com

www.creatingwellnesscultures.com

www.carolebert.usana.com

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