on 10-01-2012 06:23 AM
"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...."
on 12-03-2012 10:58 AM
on 12-03-2012 01:22 PM
thanks beani
on 12-03-2012 06:16 PM
Darki......seems most of us seniors have one thing in common.........our aching bodies.....
Our older yrs would be easier to live if we didnt have aches and pains.
Still, life is what we make it, so we plod along:-)
That's the trick isn't it purple, we learn to get along and just accept the things that happen.
Gone are the days of being upset by bodies not doing as we expect them to do, now we might mention it, talk about it with our peers, but other than that we just keep going and adapting 🙂
on 12-03-2012 06:17 PM
:-x
Hi everyone, hope you are well.
I have posted some photos in my thread, please feel free to have a squiz at them.
Hope you are all well.
Darkie, Mum has started chemo and is so far doing okay. Another treatment tomorrow.
🙂
Much love to Mum Beanie... and yes with the courage that woman has I'm sure she will do okay and then even bettererer 🙂
will go look at your thread xxxxx
on 12-03-2012 06:19 PM
I was fine as far as aches and pains go until the blasted floor flooded and I slipped over....must say I've been lucky so far apart from that.
Having the lawn mowed today ....rayyyyyyyyy and a bit of weeding done too...about time.
Morning gerries...♥
I was invaded by FOUR mowermen the other day Gil, my word, in two hours the difference they made was wonderful and I was able to do a bit of light weeding for a short time early this morning with no sense of guilt that I should be out there on my ride on... don't really want to face that at present.
Hope your man turned up and all is well with your grass 🙂
on 12-03-2012 08:46 PM
He did indeed Darki.
in 3 hours he mowed and wippersnipped my 3/4 acre and also weeded, planted and mulched part of my garden...soooooo good.
looking forward to next time
on 12-03-2012 08:57 PM
night gerries♥
on 13-03-2012 01:39 PM
HI everyone 🙂
HOpe you are well 🙂
Just went out for lunch.... pub meal...A great big chicken schnitzel meal for only $8...good country special...good value...on a bed of chips and heaps of salad....had TWO schnitzels and had to bring the second one home!!!! I am so full 🙂
I am doing my best to get my life up and moving but BOY did that body of mine fight me today...but was worth it... 🙂
Mum doing fine.....chemo today, she didnt want me or sis along...see if she wants us to take her back on Thurs...a shorter day, they remove the bottle thingy.
Darkie send those mower men down to us.... we could ues them...all the rain means our lawns are growing like crazy...seem to need it again after only 5 days
🙂
on 13-03-2012 01:43 PM
I was fine as far as aches and pains go until the blasted floor flooded and I slipped over....must say I've been lucky so far apart from that.
Having the lawn mowed today ....rayyyyyyyyy and a bit of weeding done too...about time.
Morning gerries...♥
U ok? Mckool and the dog BOTH slipped over in the mud the other night...came home covered in it.
To all with bad back pain....yes half my family have it and it does suck....I sympathise. :-x
on 13-03-2012 04:50 PM
yep beani....havent taken panadol for about 12 hours? so maybe it's getting better,
you sort of get into the rhythm of taking stufff...and dont realize sometimes that you really don't need it? I hope I'm right..Will not take any pan. tonight and see how it goes. night gerries. xx