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...."

[serendipityricho]

Arvo seniors--take care Purple.

Hi Freshwater-will get my son--puta builder and mentor to

look at that Advanced Care Directive.

Have no idea about cut and paste,

except its done in kindergarden.

Think there must be a time limit on doing a post.

I know how to purchase on ebay and move around the threads.

Everything else is a mystery -including using right clicks.

[purple_haize]

On a really serious note.....how many of you out there have completed an Advanced Care Directive?  This is an important document.  Google is your friend.

I didnt know one existed.......just googled it.

I will get one done, so that my OH knows what I want/need and also if he isnt around, my daughter would know what my wishes were.

Thanks for mentioning it.

[freshwater-2]

Hi Purple.  It also removes any trauma and/or guilt of loved ones needing to make a decision for you (and this includes carrying out verbal agreements),  You will note that the Directive has to be completed while a person is of sound mind.  Leaving it until a person is starting to lose their marbles negates the Directive.

[grandmoon]

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My father had a Living Will for many years before he died.  His medical records were all marked "DNR".  While he was in hospital a nurse took it upon herself to have him resussed.  Her excuse was that as he then had dementia the "DNR" was the family's wishes not his. She also told me "While there life there hope" 

[freshwater-2]

That is awful. Granmoon.

Two of my friends recently had surgery, at two different hospitals.   Both, on admittance, were asked if they had a Directive for the hospital.

[darksideofthemoon]

Good evening all 🙂

I might add that once you are in hospital with a likely terminal illness they do ask you there and then if you wish for DNR.

But just as well to have one anyway and damn the bluddy nurse who did that... dementia or not is not excuse.

I nursed a woman friend for ten years who was slowly dying of gold Staph... won't bore you with the details, but she desperately wished to die, there was so much pain and lack of movement... Thankfully she made it clear that she did not want to be resusitated but nevetheless she asked for me to be there to make sure her wishes were carried out.... I stayed till the end.

Had a lovely day with a couple of friends who bought a spit and roasted a chook on it.  It was beautiful and I'd made salads and we have champagne...They bought their two little dogs with them and all four dogs had a ball.

Now I have two flat fur rugs who won't move.. they are exhausted they say :^O

Hope you all have a lovely day tomorrow...

Still smiling D 🙂

Ni ni all xxxx

[serendipityricho]

Evening seniors.

Cold mongrel day in Latrine valley.

Hope it was better at your place....................Richo.

[purple_haize]

Good evening everyone.

Richo......it is freezing here in The Dandenongs.........have the ducted heating on. and it is even winter yet.

[freshwater-2]

On the NSW mid north coast too. The wind is freezing.

A friend phoned me from Richmond NSW this morning and warned what was on the way from the south.  Winds off the alps where it was snowing.

I'm about to have a shower, put on warm pj's, get into bed with the electric blanket on 1, and read a book and watch tv at the same time.  Terms of Endearment (a lovely weepy chic flic) starts at 11pm.   HEAVEN ON A STICK......yes, there are some good things about winter nights.

Tomorrow morning...well, who knows?  Maybe a loooong sleep in.   Oh bugga, I just remembered that I take my two wee doggies for a walk down to the lake at daybreak.  

Keep the warmth going, all you lovelies out there.

[grandmoon]

Good Morning all from a very cold National Capital it is now a minus 4.

I am sitting here in my new warm dressing gown I got from my son and DIL.