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When my kids were little and I was sick, I would run from activity to activity with them, only slowing down if I was running a fever \u2013 or, in one memorable health crisis, ending up in the hospital with pneumonia. That one slowed me down for weeks, but I bounced back to my regularly-scheduled program. <\/p>\n

But my last couple of go-rounds with respiratory infections have shown me that I\u2019m somewhere new in my life. I\u2019m not bouncing<\/i> back like I did at 30. It\u2019s more like I\u2019m rolling<\/i> back.<\/p>\n

Uphill. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Some call this mid-life. I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s mid-point for me (both of my parents died in their sixties, I turned fifty last summer), but it\u2019s definitely a new season. <\/p>\n

One that definitely requires a bit more patience, and someone, somewhere to bring me some homemade chicken soup the next time I get ambushed by a case of upper respiratory creeping crud.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"