I hope you don't have another stroke :S but if you do I hope you get a really cool superpower or it at least fixes the other stroke.

Can you imagine, I get what I lost back, but lose something else vital :D

So some stuff is going to slow down in spite of everything.

For sure it is. But I think many of us slow down too early and too much, until the only way we are going, is backwards.

I usually jump down and I have noticed my knees have decided they just don't wanna sometimes

"I can't be bothered bending"

she kept putting them in front of games or tv shows so they wouldn't get in her way all the time.

Kids have energy that has to be released, and if they don't do it in a healthy way, they will find an unhealthy way. Do you remember those, "kids who do sports are better at school" ads? There is something to it.

Making the world (or your world, or the interconnected worlds of your family and friends) better happens just as much in tiny barely discernible increments as in giant obvious leaps.

One small step forward for man, one giant backstep for mankind :D