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...."

[zaidee.summerlily]

Afternoon everyone, am i able to comein and visit, my kids think im old now so does that make me old haha at 53 i think im still young.

I havent read all the posts but some i have, and im guessing id be welcome, wo with that i wish you all a very happy day and hope everyone stays safe.

bye for now and a big wave to mum xxxx

:-x

[kengillard]

welcome Dea......you KNOW you're welcome here anytime....nice to see you on here again.♥

[zaidee.summerlily]

Hello darling Gilly, no i havent been around the boards for awhile, thank you for your welcome, talk to you soon stay safe and i hope mr gill is doing well, :-x

[kengillard]

Mr. Gill is doing ok thanks.....has a cataract op in 3 weeks that I hope will def. improve his sight.:-x

[zaidee.summerlily]

Watch out Gill he might start chasing you around the house, hahaha take care now, im off for the night stay safe and happy

♥ oh yes i did it hahaha

[serendipityricho]

Evening seniors and gerries.

Welcome to that young lady-Zaidee.

Gilly- if i find out who has been picking on you,

i will let you know-lol.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Thank you Richo lol,

no one around tonight never mind plenty of time to annoy you all, have a good night and a beautiful tomorrow:-x

[serendipityricho]

No Danger Park Ranger-lol-will bump at 5am

-see what oldies are up and about............Richo.

[kengillard]

morning gerries and others

Did you find the culprits Richo?:^O

[monman12]

SP: "But -geez they have dropped some clangers over the years.

Loved it when the Queen mum came out of hospital

and slipped on the steps --the announcer said-

she landed ok and is waving a gaily decorated crutch

at the crowd---lol."

I am perplexed SP, why is it a clanger? I once had a scrunched ankle and used  crutches to move around, but they were not as cheerful as these crutches:-