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...."

[serendipityricho]

Enjoy your evening Darki.

Back to what was mentioned before--i reckon

the percentage of blokes on all threads would be

about 15%--havent seen one post here.

Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

Thank you Richo, I did enjoy my evening and now it's early morning and a new day ahead 🙂

Wasn't there another bloke early in this thread?  Maybe they are all too young to join... 😞

Misty rain and cool again today.

Seem to be suffering from aches and pains today... is this part of the aging factor?

Isn't it a nuisense that all our oldies have passed on (or almost) and have left us to find out about being elderly on our own.  I remember my mother saying that one of the things that struck her about getting old was that she found her mind was as bright as ever it was and it was a bluddy nuisense that her body wasn't responding as willingly any longer.

She was so darn right 😞

Just been reading an adventure story by Will Adams.  His hero Daniel Knox has such a flat out time avoiding the baddies.  He gets dropped off cliffs, hit over the head, was in a car accident and all sorts of other events, he just kept going, I was exhausted :^O

[purple_haize]

Thank you Richo, I did enjoy my evening and now it's early morning and a new day ahead 🙂

Wasn't there another bloke early in this thread?  Maybe they are all too young to join... 😞

Misty rain and cool again today.

Seem to be suffering from aches and pains today... is this part of the aging factor?

Isn't it a nuisense that all our oldies have passed on (or almost) and have left us to find out about being elderly on our own.  I remember my mother saying that one of the things that struck her about getting old was that she found her mind was as bright as ever it was and it was a bluddy nuisense that her body wasn't responding as willingly any longer.

She was so darn right 😞

Just been reading an adventure story by Will Adams.  His hero Daniel Knox has such a flat out time avoiding the baddies.  He gets dropped off cliffs, hit over the head, was in a car accident and all sorts of other events, he just kept going, I was exhausted :^O

I to find my bones ache more when it is raining & cool, I always have the aches and pains, but the do seem worse with change of weather.

The joys of getting older, I guess.

[kengillard]

true purple.....wet humid rainy weather seems to aggravate it.

gidday everyone♥

[darksideofthemoon]

Sigh 😞  Even my chiro said this morning that it was old age...

Now how about that for honesty?

I'm still sore but heaps bettererer and that's great.

Ah well roll on the years, I ready for ya :^O

[kengillard]

bring it on!!!

[darksideofthemoon]

I've just been watching 'Taggart, 25 years of murder' and as I watched the opening of the very first episod that they produced I was reminded of the very first time I saw Television.

I was I think 17 and it was, I think Channel 9, that was the first station to go to air in 1956.

I can't remember the woman but I do remember Bruce Gingell.

At this point of recalling I decided to look it up in case I was wrong and to my delight I found I had recalled correctly :^O

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Network

I can remember watching the TV tower being built in Willoughby.

Anyone else remember their first TV ??

[purple_haize]

I remember I was about 7yrs, we didnt have it, but a neigbour did, they invited us in to watch .......Annie Oakly.....there wasnt much to choose from back then and I thought it was wonderful!

I remember when we got a TV, I thought Roy Rodgers was wonderful, think that was my favourite show, it was on every afternoon..........in black & white.

[darksideofthemoon]

There are old black and white movies shown on Gem in the early mornings that I sometimes watch... they really are priceless.

All the old stars including Alex Guiness, John Mills, Michael Wilding... beautiful

Ah yes, Rob Roy and his horse, Trigger wasn't it?

[rose*petals]

I think that was Roy Rogers.