Joe, work on your lazy eights.
I can't remember who it was, but about 20 years ago I thought I could get back into flying, and visited Delta Park. There was a guy there with some sort of health problem that would let him keep up with a plane for takeoff and landing, but not a whole flight.
He'd take is plane out to the grass, take off, and just stand in one spot and do great big lazy eights for a whole flight, then land.
So if it ever happens again...