"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...."
Little brother just reminded me of when Mother used to line us up and feed us each a spoon of Hypol.
Does anyone else remember the horrible fishy taste.
But at least it was better than Nan feed us a spoon of Cod Liver Oil.
The other Nanna used Caster Oil for what ever ailed you.
I also remember being given a spoon of Malt Extract that was yummy and i saw it in Woolies not so long ago.
Yum malt extract and there was a very yummy fish oil one too but I can't remember the name - someone's Cold Liver Oil Emulsion and I used to love that. It had a picture of a fish jumping on the label.
Gil glad you have both decided for him to have that done, it will make a huge difference for him. 🙂
You remembers Morris Minors/Majors and Austin A30/60ss?
Juke boxes and life without television... radio serials and the Argonaughts?
Wow, that is so sad that people feel the need to do things like that 😞
Hubby was diagnosed with testicular cancer in january, he promptly had an orchiectomy, after which all his bloods returned to normal. We were told that after this procedure there is a 1 in 10 chance of the cancer returning in the lungs or abdomen, but as his tumor was under 4cm he had a good chance that it wouldn't be back, but has to have 25 years of follow up appointments, blood tests, chest x-rays and CT scans.
He had his rutine bloods and CT scan last week, they couldn't see anything on the CT, but the tumor markers in his blood have gone up so he has a secondary cancer somewhere. Now the oncologist says he isn't surprised it came back 😐 OH is starting a 9 weeks of chemo on Monday next week, 3 x 3 week cycles. week one is 5 days in a row, followed by an immune booster, then once a week for 2 weeks, then it starts over.
A few days before all of this when we still thought he had beaten the cancer we became 'perminant foster carers' for an elderly staffy with terminal cancer, we called him Tyson. The vets think he has about 6 months left, but I tend to think it is going to be less. For the time being he is happy 🙂
Oh dolly... that a nasty shock for you both and I do hope that wherever the cancer is it is quickly defeated by the treatment.. I also hope it doesn't knock OH into next week as he goes along.
So hard for both of you, Just a thought, just a strange one, but maybe worth a thought... could he have mucked up his test results by handling your elderly staffy Tyson who has cancer... is there any chance that Tyson could have 'contaminated' OH's tests?
A strange thought, but the coincidence is there isn't it.
One has to be so careful of contamination when it comes to tests.
Whatever, may both your OH's fare well, and you take care of you too okay? ((((((hugs)))))
