It comes as rather a nasty surprise that I am aging.
You too?
Oh, I knew there would be a few aches and pains,
and of course a face with well placed character-wrinkles
and some artfully arranged gray hairs.
But the plan was (and still is) to ignore such minor imperfections and compensate with self deception.
Creams and lotions help (and please try them all like I do). The commercials might be right after all.
And maintaining an upbeat, youthful attitude is the way to go.
This means a devotion to nutrition and exercise (if you practise on rare occasions like I do).
But who knew about falling asleep in a chair and waking up
with mouth wide open?
And how can you take charge of keeping
your mouth shut when you’re out cold?
I admit this humiliating onset of age mars my usually proud
and eternally youthful countenance. And thankfully, I don’t snore!
But
I am now hoping for soulmates out there (those of you with gaping jaws)
to come forward with your learned-from-experience solutions to this ultimate indignity.
Laughing right out loud Dorann! If you find the secret let us know ~
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I thought everyone slept with their mouth hanging open! I don’t know about me but my husband sure does! No solutions for you sadly. Just don’t allow cameras near you when you are sleeping.
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Will do and thanks for othe laughter Mary! 🙂
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No cameras allowed now that you offer such good advice. “Ignorance is bliss” my friend since you don’t know if you sleep with your mouth hangin’ open. I got my first clue waking up with a dry mouth and had to close it to revive. 🙂
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I have that too but so are my eyes and I sleep with them closed. I bet we are just adorable.
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I believe in active denial. I deny I am getting older. My mouth never hangs open and I’ve never heard myself snore.
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But that is some good sleeping!
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My husband does. You can wear a headband to bed that keeps your chin closed, but this looks weird too. Add one of those eye masks and I think you might look more fashionable with a matching set, a sleeping ensemble…..
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🙂 🙂 🙂
We are all too perfect aren’t we?
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Heavy duty stuff…..
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“…a matching set, a sleeping ensemble…” I love it! At least we can droop gracefully. 🙂
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So far, I’m just an observer, because I’m generally safely in bed before I conk out. John falls asleep during sermons in church. He is still proud of the fact that he needs only four or five hours of sleep a night. Getting double once in a while wouldn’t hurt, but you can’t tell him that. Last Sunday he had a snorty snore and jerked himself awake in the pew. Now that you have written about open oral orifices, I’m going to try to look at his mouth when he slumps in church. Thank you for writing about the dangers of falling asleep in public. I’m going to be waiting for it to happen to me. It would serve me right to have an audience.
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Aging? And out cold with mouth wide open? Not us! 😉 The only method I know to sleep and keep the trap shut is what my hubby uses – a chin strap that goes along with his CPAP machine. Now that machine is a wondrous contraption because it keeps him from snoring like a bandsaw or a herd of motorcycles and that allows me to sleep nicely (with my mouth open no doubt).
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It happens to me all the time. I sit down on the couch at night all excited to dive into a great book, and then boom I’m out cold with mouth hanging open and a string of drool dangling down LOL.
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Well Dor, I console myself with thoughts that as I live alone now, nobody knows if I snore or sleep with my mouth wide open. I had an elderly friend, well she was 90 and I was a mere 60 when I knew her. She used t say This getting old, it at for the feint hearted.
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I think all these things are well earned ‘rights’ that come with age! The solution is to just embrace the fact that you are alive, and not in a pine box, I guess.
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We are.
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Cindy beat me to my suggestion! I think it is pretty universal, Dor, everyone drools on their pillow. 😉
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🙂 In church?!
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Yes, I have heard thos CPAP things work wonders. My brother has one. I was tested but don’t need one so that’s no solution unless I can ask the dr. for one anyway. On the other hand the CPAP thing is not particularly glamorous either. Sigh. 🙂
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I haven’t checked for drool yet! Did you really have to remind me of that probability? 🙂
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Living aloe is good cover Judith for any unconscious unbecoming sleep things, but I have noticed some elderlies who nod off at concerts or lectures. There is no safe place my friend. 🙂
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Now there is a philosophy to live by Margy! I shall embrace being alive and able to over indulge in chocolate and self deprecation.
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No, I refuse to admit to this. My pillow is clear (although it is a creamy white color and the drool might blend). Sigh.
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You have it right, in church. He doesn’t INTEND to fall asleep. If I ask later if he had a good nap, he fervently denies it. Maybe that is the key. Tell yourself it didn’t happen, and you don’t have to deal with the consequences.
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Bahaha! Sorry my friend :).
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Hahahaha! Literally just had to leave a room because my husband is exhibiting this behavior and snoring!
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Ah well, even heroes fall asleep…. 🙂
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Maybe we should consider this unconscious behavior to be endearing?
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His chin sinks down to his chest, so his mouth is clamped shut. I watched last Sunday. Maybe we all need to aim for the chest when in danger of falling asleep.
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Hahahaha! 🙂
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I used to catch pics of dad with his mouth open, sleeping in his chair. what goes around comes around–just no one to take the pic, thankfully!
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Whoo can fault us for unconcsious behavior anyway?
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🙂
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