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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...."
Good to see you back darki fingers crossed re the phone and the modem that they may continue to run in tandem and play nice:)
Hi ya JV, so good to be back and I really do hope my troubles are over... I really have had a bad time with this since about Jan 2nd, so after over a fortnight I am very hopeful.
I have met some lovely young people tho, all of them so patient and knowledgeable about internets, modems and servers.. but it took a Telstra linesman to discover the final (not only) problem and tell me to get back the server to fix it.
I think the server will have to pay him :^O
Good morning all ๐
Hi Kaye, what a norti girl you were listening in to phone conversations ๐ you certainly deserved the sack... did you improve after that :^O
I like the fridge magnets, particularly the second one. It's a relief to think I don't have to try and grow up any longer.
Oh yes, JV I remember well the discrimination in the work place and also the unwelcome advances made by the men ๐
The last fellow who tried to come from behind and grab my breast got an elbow had in his stomach for his effort.... grrrr!
Oh yes, and if you needed a bank loan you had to have a man's signature on the form.
When I was finally divorced I needed a loan for a short time - one that I could easily pay off, but I still needed that signature.... I found an accountant who could vouch for me and he signed the bluddy form
X-(
Well I have to buy an electric dog barrier for my dog Harry to stop him running through the gate. It's all got to difficult trying to control the people rather than the dog... well I have to get them to let me know when to expect them so I can shut him in... that's my new project... installing it.
It won't be difficult except that training him will take a week and in that time if he's outside I have to either be training him or keeping him away from the area until he learns it's a no go zone...
Ho hum... it doesn't matter how old we get we still have things we have to learn...
Who remembers having dogs that weren't desexed or microchipped or had to be confined and they would wander the streets with little or no effort on anyone's part to stop them?
Oh well onward and upward I suppose ๐
Morning Darki i know nothing about those doggie barriers........can you install them or do you have to have a tech to fit them?
I can install it JV.. it's fairly simple once one has worked out where the wires are to go.
I have heard some good reports on them and I think it will help this situation... leastways I hope so, it is tiring having to keep Harry inside when the neighbours are moving around... if I can stop his barking and the fear of him going through the gate I will be very well set up.
