Midlife Body Shenanigans: Random Aches & Pains

Hey, hey, hey. Welcome back to

Midlife Shenanigans with Tish. And

this week, this show is where midlife

bodies do whatever the hell they

want. And we're just trying to keep up.

So the other morning I woke up and my left hip was like,

yeah, not today. We're going to be in pain

for no apparent reason. Just lots of

pain. And if that wasn't bad enough, a few days

later my right shoulder chimed in and was like,

surprise. Tish, it's my turn. We're

gonna hurt now for no apparent

reason. I swear, half of

midlife I have been just waking up

confused about what new body

part is deciding to hurt that day for

no apparent reason. All right, let's talk about

these random aches and pains that show up like

uninvited party guest. Ew. Who wants

uninvited party guests? Not me. Before I jump into this

week's episode, I want to remind you, if you haven't picked up my

five midlife LOLs, no advice, just attitude.

A quick little PDF printable with five laughs about

midlife. You can grab that at tishleigh.com

P O- LOL that's tishleigh.com

pod LOL. All right, my

beautiful midlife sister, we are going to jump

in and today I want to talk about my

favorite part of midlife. So far. I injured myself

doing nothing, literally nothing, but I

injured myself. This has been my favorite

part of midlife. I mean, I'm kidding if you

didn't detect the sarcasm there. I

am, I am freaking amazed at the amount

of aches and pains that my body

just randomly decides to be like, oh,

yeah, left hip not gonna work today. Just gonna give you

lots of pain. Right hip. Okay, well, it was your left side

the other day, so let's move to the right side now. And we just

seem to, you know, work around the whole

body from top to bottom, but I'm literally just existing

in my 50 year old, middle aged body. That's

it. Just breathing. Somehow. I can go to bed

fine and, and wake up feeling like I did a full

contact sport in my sleep. Like I had played 10

games of football. Hell, like I played one game of football,

I wouldn't even survive one game. And I

just don't understand where

these aches and pains come from. At least if I had a really

cool story to go with, you know, that left hip hurt and like,

oh, hey, I, I don't know, I was out roller

skating and I fell and you know, hit my left hip and

that's why it's hurting. No, there's no cool story to

go with it. It's literally I rolled over

in the middle of the night and boom, I wake

up with a new ache. And

like, I touched on already is the rotating

parts of how it rotates from side to side.

Like, literally it is one day my hip, the next day

it's the shoulder. And then my knee will be like,

hey, what about me? You can't leave me out.

I gotta have my turn too. And then

it's not even like it can just be one thing

hurts that goes away and something else starts

hurting. Oh, no. My whole

freaking body just says, well, you know, as if we're

not throwing enough midlife hormonal shit her way.

We might as well just have her whole body hurt. Why?

She's at it. Oh, my goodness.

Midlife, Midlife. Midlife, Midlife.

I really. Some days that's all I can do is laugh and

be like, midlife. Because I don't know what else to do.

Oh, my goodness. So I feel like I just am

in this state of confusion. I'm

literally confused at my body. I am like, what

the hell? Why does this hurt?

Okay, so sure, maybe I slept weird

and maybe this pain will work itself out through

the day and go bye bye, like it needs to. But

nope, it does not go away that easily.

And then I'm in this state of

acceptance, but not really accepting

because I don't want to play that whole, well, I'm

50 years old. This is just, you know, the whole part

of being middle aged and the fun aging process.

I. I get it, I get it, I get it. Yes, as

we age, our bodies do randomly

do shit and we do get random aches and pains

and it's really freaking annoying. Like, cry me.

How much more does midlife think I

need thrown my way? I mean, come on, help a sister out.

I can't be the only one that is dealing with these random aches and

pains. And I can't be the only one that is

like, come on, midlife, cut me a break. Please tell me

I am not the only one that is feeling these

I again. Sometimes all I can do is

laugh and just be like, midlife, midlife,

midlife. Because humor has been

one of the key things that has gotten

me through a lot of this hormonal,

midlife, crazy body changes

crap that is going on in my life. I

like to try and find the humor in everything that I can.

But you know, I also, I sit here and I'm

thinking, I have survived a whole

hell of a lot in these 50 years of my life.

And then this whole midlife thing is just

like. I look at my track

record of all the things that I have survived and I'm like,

okay, I can survive this too. And I want to

survive this because it means, hello, that I am

still on this planet. And that is a good thing.

But seriously, will

there ever come a point where this midlife shit

is just. I

don't know what I'm trying to say. The aches and the pains,

does it ever end? Sure, I probably know

how to answer that question and I'm so thankful that

it is not ending that way yet. If you're reading through the

lines, I'm talking about death. Not to be morbid or anything, but

hello. I don't think I need to tell you, my midlife

sister, that time is not on our hands like it used

to be anymore. I'm just wondering though,

if this is how the rest of my life is

going to be dealing with all these freaking random ass

aches and pains because it's annoying as all

get out. Yeah, whatever. Oh

yes. So all of that rambling to say if you

woke up today with a mystery ache that you can't

explain, explain. You are not alone. Welcome

to the midlife club. There is no

membership card required. We just have a shared

understanding and okay,

I can't talk today and occasional

creaks and groans when we stand up.

So for today my takeaway from

all of my personal rant rambling is

let's stretch a little, let's drink some more water

and let's just try not to judge our bodies

too harshly. It is doing the best that

it can, even yes, when it is throwing

these random ass aches and pains our way.

Okay my midlife sisters, that's it for today.

Thank you again for putting up with my rambling. By the

way, I am always looking for a guest

so head on over to tishleigh.com and

you will see the podcast button and then directly below the podcast

button there is a be a guest link. Just click

that and fill out the form. Would love to have somebody else join me

so we can just ramble and talk shit about being

middle aged women.