"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...."
Up at 5 as usual. Can't break the habit of a lifetime.Nice cool day in "The Alice".Clear sunshine with pleasent breezes. Everything is green from the recent rain. Quite day apart from changing a tyre on the motorscooter, Fit towbat to the car,clean & adjust the carby on the scootcar,do some tiling in the bathroom & a bit of cleaning up about the yard there realy is not much to do today.
"YOU ARE ONLY AS OLD AS YOU THINK YOU ARE"
You lazy old thing ca04 :^O
Good morning seniors.
Long weekend in Vic and no work today.
Gilly--re your post 816-----stay off the blaardy ladder.
How many times do you have to be told!
~~~waves to the other seniors..............Richo.
She never does as she's told Richo, she's a stubborn gerrie :^O
Morning all ๐
Well painful back is holding me back a bit at present. Had to have Xrays on it and found that over the years my right hip has come up half an inch, my spine has a bit of a curve, one of the vertebrae doesn't have a disc and there is arthritis!!!!
Now, I ask you... is this fair???? ๐ฎ
I have over the years done, by necessity, a lot of heavy work and I expect this is what has caused it, but by golly, somewhere recently it found the straw that broke the camel's back and caused mine to give up too.
The chiro can only do so much to ease the muscles which is more than the doctors can do as they are not into muscle relief, only 'correcting' what can't be fixed.
I asked him if the doctors would do anything and his answer (he is also a doctor) is "No they would have to send you away"
So... I'm still as young as I feel co04, but sort of sore at present ๐
Ah well, such is life - and I haven't been on any ladders Richo :^O
