What can you no longer do?

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I’ll start. I have donated blood since my university days (80’s). I can’t do that now as I was diagnosed with cancer in. 2022. It’s strange, but this is a thing that really upsets me.

@DontBiteTheCat nah I'm not even average. But thanks for the flowers😍. I'm just realistic.

All of these!

I regard high heels as tortuous now… I try mine on occasionally… Even standing in them is enough, very much doubt I could walk in them😱

Wear anything tight or restrictive, brings on sweating which brings on panic - just not worth it.

Get pregnant, because I am too old, not because of fertility problems. I have had more than my fair share of babies but sometimes I think one more would be nice. Then I remember toilet training and chicken pox and change my mind!

Make it through the night without needing the loo

Have a flat tummy

Eat nice food and stay thin

Wear my favourite size 12 trousers

Bend/twist/stretch from the waist, sit, stand still, walk up or downhill, walk for more than 10-15 mins, lift or carry more than a lettuce. I expect there’s more.

I used to be a competitive swimmer, until last year when I lost my beloved gran, who I nursed at home with my mum until the end. I haven’t been able to compete since. The accountability of the stopwatch, the pressure, letting people down. I desperately want to get back, but each time I go to swim I feel dread, and as though I am carrying my labrador on my back. I can train, but the idea of competing makes me feel ill. yet I miss it so much.

@Maddy70 is it possible for you to have your picc changed to a port then you could swim?

Bend, in any direction.

Shift permanent back and scapula pain
Bend down without groaning
Read a book
Concentrate - on anything
Go for more than an hour without a wee
Drink wine without feeling pissed after one glass
Feel 'with it' in the morning - ever
Scroll on my phone without immense pain in scapula
Sit for longer than an hour at computer
'Join in' anything/share plans-I hate it and am really independent.
Leave my house after 6pm

@StMarieforme

im the opposite. Fine when I'm low carbing,but up & down all bloody night when I'm being a carby twat!!

im diabetic though

Since having my teeth straightened, I can no longer kiss them. I'm in Australia, so this doesn't have the impact it might have in the UK.

Many of those above, but in particular:

dance as much as I used to, it brings on an SVT episode if I let my heart rate get too high
Do drugs, for similar reasons
and booze.
raise one leg high enough when putting on knickers.
wear my beautiful mad high heels
tolerate any shit

Sleep on my front. I did for years but since my back operation if I try, I wake up stuck like some kind of upside down stranded tortoise

High impact exercise (see above)

On the plus side I can exercise now I'm on a drug that stops me breaking out into hives every time I get warm or my heart rate goes up

Lie comfortably in my tummy

Pick coins up with ease

Unscrew jars

I can't walk and talk at the same time lungs won't allow it. Take any meaningful exercise, joints all buggered, read small print, even with glasses I can't read the back of a packet. Can't feel the bottoms of my feet or the tips of my fingers, worse of all I can't control bowel or bladder reliably, pelvic radiotherapy has about done for them both. The rest I can live with but the last 2 not so much

No sadly. I have 4 more chemos to go then it's out! Yey! The first thing im going to do is throw myself in the sea :)

Thank you. Sending them right back for your Dgs

What a beautiful outlook x

I wonder if the book thing is related to social media and television. When I didnt have access to any on a big walk for 5 days I got through 2 books quite easily as there were no distractions or anything else to do.

Me too! It’s really odd because I have been an avid book reader all my life yet now if I start a book I’m unlikely to finish it. I must have at least a dozen unfinished.
It’s the same with watching tv, I cannot concentrate on anything.
I can no longer walk for hours which I miss dreadfully because of ill health.

Run or squard
Get up from a low chair easily
Get up from the floor easily
Read, write or other close work without glasses
Lose weight
Drink alcohol or stay up later on a school night

Tolerate idiots. The older I get, the more I realise they are everywhere, especially online. There is a certain fascination though, the political threads on here demonstrate an astonishing lack of critical thinking.

Write

Honestly I can just about do my address and a shopping list.

Beyond that I just run out of steam.

I type perfectly and text and no probs.

BIL, a GP looked weirdly at me and asked me if my writing had changed ... no ... I just find it a nuisance.

I know he was getting at a possible neurological issue but even he said the just thought I'd got out of the habit due to many years of not actually having to.

I might buy a good pen and some nice paper and force myself

I can't do the splits any more 😭

Jump.

My brain knows how to do it but there's some kind of block that doesn't let it happen. Also hop. (I do have a rare autoimmune disease)

Put my socks or tights on without contortions, also cutting toenails and tying shoes. Thread a needle first time. Dance, all my co ordination has gone.