Yes, I'm retired too. If I didn't have my sewing I would be a stiffened up "prune". I have arthritis in my wrists, and most every where else. I complained to the doctor one day that it was hard for me to sew and knit. He said, "then maybe you ought not to sew and knit." My reply was, "well, that is not going to happen."
My husband complained one of his last days of life that, "everything was stiff but what was supposed to be." We both got a good laugh out of that.