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"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...."
Yep Lyndal-we need peace and quiet as we get older.
Just had a nanna nap and dont feel guilty.
Enjoy -Gilly ~~~~~~~~~~~waves to Beani ..Richo.
Isn't that a Poppa nap Richo? 🙂
G day everyone 🙂
have a good one 🙂
Hi ya little Beanie ((((((hugs)))))))
Hi and good morning all 🙂
Well 'chockie days' are over for another year - what's next? Oh yes, Mother's Day...
Not much going on down here at present. My son turned 50 yesterday... how time flies and yet I can rememberh his birth so clearly.
My daughter in law sent me lovely photos of my 16 year old granddaughter and her dad... it won't be long before they will sell that place in Queensland and move down here. Maybe by this time next year I will help with his birthday dinner.
I have only seen him 3 times in the last 16 years as he was in the Forces and moving around all the time. He has decided he wants to live near me in my 'declining years' as he put it :^O
Kids never stop saying things that amuse do they.
returning the waves... 🙂
Nice to see you all.
I have been out in the beanimobile, zooming around being a danger to all... (Beani chuckle).
I also have a nanna nap occasionally and I never feel guilty for it.
Its lovely and quiet today, all the tourists mainly left last night....the traffic was banked up a bit in areas by then.
Have a good one
🙂
oh I forgot!
I posted a pic of my new table and chairs set in beani's new adventures if anyone wants a squiz...
🙂
Hi ya little Beanie ((((((hugs)))))))
How did you know I was little ??? 🙂 🙂 🙂
Five foot and proud of it 🙂
returning the waves... 🙂
Nice to see you all.
I have been out in the beanimobile, zooming around being a danger to all... (Beani chuckle).
I also have a nanna nap occasionally and I never feel guilty for it.
Its lovely and quiet today, all the tourists mainly left last night....the traffic was banked up a bit in areas by then.
Have a good one
🙂
OMG 😮 and she doesn't have a licence .... do you have someone with a red flag walking in front of you Beanie? That was the rule for many years when cars were new on the road.
Maybe you should have one too :^O
luv ya kid xxxx
'Afternoon all.:-)
It has been a very quiet Easter here. I live in an area of older people...all our children are grown and moved away, mostly too far away to visit too often, so us oldies just have to grin and bear it.
One plus is that school holidays are not a worry here...no kids to run riot because they are bored.X-(
Same here too Lyndal, just me and the two dogs.. BLISS :^O
