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"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 ๐
But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul. We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.
The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there. If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.
The belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad. Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people. Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.
Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.
What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.
Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later. We can talk about that too.
Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.
The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...
So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Morning JV ๐ you're aboard early, getting in more gardening before it heats up?
Yes I also remember clearly where I was when I heard Kennedy had been assassinated, and the man on the moon... Nam and the awful way our boys and wives were treated on their return, that was shameful.
Why do people forget it isn't the private man in the street that was responsible for being sent off, it was the Government? My step brother went and is still affected.
Blimey JV, what was your job? Brisbane in a suit and high heels in summer ๐ฎ I'm impressed.
Well 5am is far too early to be up, who else finds they can't sleep after about 5 am?
I used to get tuppence for each returned bottle.
I also used to dive for money from the Manly Wharf. The tourists used to throw in coins and we would dive for them. Dangerous when the ferry was coming in. We stored the coins in our cheeks. I was only a kid. If my mother had known she would have had a fit.
I remember the kids diving for money off the Manly wharf. Wuz one of 'em you freshwater ๐ I used to 'ferry hop' going from Neutral Bay where we lived and changing ferries all round the harbour not paying anything - that was fun.
Who remembers the war ships arriving in Sydney?
You just about squeeze in corgi, but you're still a Boomer :^O
LIke my mother you were born in a convenient year for remembering how old you are, she was born in 1910 and it was easy to just subtract 10 years from the current date... hence today she would be 102!
waves madly to all the super seniors...........great thread darkie ๐
im only a baby boomer, but my mum 1931 & dad 1928 are definately golden oldies
mum is 82 next month but sadly has dementia (still in the early stages thank god, so she still has good days) a few other health problems......but she still madly potters around in her garden and in the kitchen
dad is doing great for 83, still plays 2-3 rounds of golf a week, does a fantastic job looking after mum, has his market garden in the backyard and is always zooming around mowing someones lawns....... even the grandkids have trouble keeping up with him
Hi ya lill shazz... great to see you here. Good on your dad, how hard for him knowing he is slowly losing your mum and hard for her in the early days... glad she still enjoys the garden. I hope I am still as fit as your dad in the next 10 years ๐
Yes did all the PR for flick pest control......so looked after all their corporate accounts top company to work for
As my hubby was always anywhere but in Aussie was very important for me to have a career...not many women reps around during the early 70s lol
No not many at all, those were the early days for us weren't they.
Just popping in to say Hi to all you Golden Oldies. 1946 was my year - now being kept alive by medical science lol!!!!!
Richo - I think I have some tapes of the old Radio Show, Greenbottle, must have a look tomorrow - I loved that show!!!
Also remember Portia faces Life - don't think my Mum used to listen to it, the wireless seemed to be always on..
Off to bed now nursing a 3 day migraine and feeling about 100!!!!
Yes Amber, sixpence was a zac.
I probably won't be able to sleep now - will be busy remembering - anybody remember those cuddle seats in the "picture shows". They were very cozy :-x
The Eyes of Night... remember that one?
Hope your headache eases off today Kaye, miserable having a migraine, no getting away from it ๐
