The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"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 🙂

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 🙂

So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."

[ca04]

Charles Graham 1893

[darksideofthemoon]

wow, that's interesting richo.

At school my friend was in the same class as her uncle. Can anyone guess how that is possible? Does anyone want to guess?

😮

Yes uncle was a change of life baby and probably unexpected so he was born at the same time as his niece...

It's actually not unusual 🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

Richo, re you comment on confusing relationships.....

my father used to introduce my stepfather to friends as his husband-in-law.

Hahahhaaaa !  Love a man with a sense of humour :^O

[darksideofthemoon]

Two little girls in blue, lad,
Two little girls in blue.
They were sisters, we were brothers
And learned to love the two.
And one little girl in blue, lad,
Who won your father's heart,
Became your mother. I married the other,
And now we have drifted apart.

A BIG THANK YOU ca04 🙂  Now I can follow it easily, the problem was a mix up of words...

Hence:

2 little girls in blue lad, 2 little girls in blue

They were sisters we were brothers and learned to love them true,

But one little girl in blue lad, she won my father's heart,

Became my mother I married the other

But now we've drifted apart.

Phew!  that's a relief :^O

[ca04]

There is another one which has the line "he was his own grandpa" so i will have to find the words for that one.

[ca04]

In the song, the narrator marries a widow with an adult daughter. Subsequently, his father marries the widow's daughter. This creates a comic tangle of relationships by a mixture of blood and marriage; for example, the narrator's father is now also his stepson-in-law. The situation is complicated further when both couples have children.

Although the song continues to mention that both the narrator's wife and stepdaughter had children by the narrator and his father, respectively, the narrator actually becomes "his own grandpa" once his father marries the woman's daughter.

[ca04]

"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as "I'm My Own Grandpaw") is a novelty song written byDwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947,

[ca04]

I was married to a widow, who was pretty as can be.
This widow, had a grown-up daughter, 
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law, 
And really changed my life.
Now my daughter was my mother, 
Cause she was my father's wife.
And to complicate the matter, 
Even though it brought me joy, 
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad, 
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For, if-if he were my uncle, then that also made him brother.
Of the widow's grown up daughter, who was of course, my stepmother.
Uh huh.
Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run, 
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother, and it makes me blue.
Because although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.
God.
Now, if my wife is my grandmother, I am her grandchild, yeah.
And every time I think of it, heh! Nearly drives me wild.
Cause now I have become, the strangest case you ever saw, 
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpaw.
Oh I'm my own grandpaw.
I'm my own grandpaw.
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so, 
Oh I'm my own grandpaw.
I'm my own grandpaw.
I'm my own grandpaw.
Talk about incest! 
It sounds funny I know, but it really is so, 
I'm my own grandpaw.

[ca04]

Other websites credit Ray Stevens as the writer. The story started in a newspaper article written some 150 years before hand.

[ca04]

Other websites credit Ray Stevens as the writer. The story started in a newspaper article written some 150 years before hand.