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...."

[bluepanda555]

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

Goodness ca04 what a complicated song, a bit hard for my poor brain to follow.  🙂

[crichtonscraftgwen]

Just found this thread and I think I definitely qualify as I was born on the 31.1.1938 and my husband born on the 29.9.1930.  We had a retail craft shop until we retired to home in 1960 and I still teach art 5 classes a week and he makes wooden items and does framing for my students.  He has recently had to undergo chemo for skin cancers but still works for me and the only other medical problem that we have in high blood pressure.

[kengillard]

Hi Gwen...you certainly qualify.....and are the oldest I think...you beat me by8 months!

I've just taken up art classes again...finding it very enjoyable.

[crichtonscraftgwen]

Hi Gwen...you certainly qualify.....and are the oldest I think...you beat me by8 months!

I've just taken up art classes again...finding it very enjoyable.

Where are you doing your classes - might know the teacher and also what sort of art are you doing.

[kengillard]

I'm in Qld.   In Landsborough.

experimenting with acrylics at the moment, but I think I'm using them like oils unfortunately...guess it's my individual style tho.

[serendipityricho]

Arvo Seniors.

Gilly-dont try and do a mural on the ceiling-

stay off ladders!..................Richo. 

[kengillard]

will leave that to Michaelangelo and Leonardo Richo:^O

[darksideofthemoon]

Hi ya Gwen and welcome 🙂  Yes I reckon you are the eldest so far... great!  I'm hoping we will get someone of 80 sometime, but we might have to wait until one of us turns 80... you so far :^O

Gilli don't you DARE get on a ladder... Ooooh I would be so angry with you... one broken pelvis is enough for the year :^O

I'm my own grandpa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7x1ETPkZsk

Oh you gotta give it to relationships... they can get very confusing :^O

Hey!  does anyone remember when you could wind out the windscreen of a car?

I was watching Foyle's War today and he was driving an Austin and it had a wind out front window... that put me in mind of my being able to wind our window on our Austin...

[purple_haize]

Does anyone remember, How Much is the Doggy in the Window?

My mother use to sing that to me all the time.

[crichtonscraftgwen]

Yes but I can remember further back that that.  During the war we had a record player on our back verandah it was a wind up one and we had 78 records that we used to play I got the job of winding the handle whilst my sisters danced with their boyfriends. We also used to go to the movies on a Friday night and they were silent.