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...."

[kengillard]

morning all....beautiful cold but very sunny day here on the coast...about 15 degrees.

Did anyone ever "walk up" the doorway?  I used to amuse my great aunts and uncles doing it. I have a pic somewhere..will try and find it.

[serendipityricho]

Please Gilly--no stunt work--remember what happened

last time!...........................Richo.

[freshwater-2]

Gilly, what is walking up the doorway?  That is a new one on me.

Re. doctors.  I can't remember the last time I went to one....maybe 25 years or so ago.  That is probably why I am in robust health.

I know of a company practice here that give patients a limit of 15 minutes and if they can't pinpoint their problem in that time  they just throw some pills at them.

Unlike other professions, doctors can bury their mistakes.

My Bestie uses a doctor here that the other doctors hate.......claim she (the doctor) spends too much time and resources on her patients, including pensioners.  When my Bestie was in hospital the doctor used to sneek in after her practice hours to check on that chart at the end of her bed and check her vital signs, and then sneek out. 

I just remembered something, and stand corrected.....I have been to a doctor in the last couple of years.  I was bitten on the eyelid by an unknown spider, face swelled up to a huge size, agony.  Jump in the car and went to two local doctors and was advised they aren't taking any new patients. The hospital emergency was 1-/2 hours away. I went to my Bestie's doctor who saw me walk into the packed waiting room and immediately rushed me into her examination room. Didn't even ask my name until it was all done.  And refused payment because it was an emergency..

[kengillard]

Gee.....should be more of those Freshy.  We have a female doc. too....she's very thorough and chases us up if we forget....

walking up the doorway.............you have to be reasonably young to fit into the doorway....about 5 to 8 I think.

You put your feet (no shoes)  on the sides of the doorway and your hands as well, and just 'walk' yourself up to the top...must have good muscles tho.

My uncle used to say "Monkey your father??":-D

[grandmoon]

hello all

My neighbour has been laughing at me as she thinks its funny that I refer to other people as being old. 

[kengillard]

of course...I know what you mean....poor old dears:^O

[purple_haize]

hello all

My neighbour has been laughing at me as she thinks its funny that I refer to other people as being old.

Well, we are old......I feel 100yrs. today.

[freshwater-2]

Hey Gilly.  I tried to walk the door and couldn't get my feet off the floor.  :^O

[grandmoon]

Afternoon all

I visited the Kidney Specialist this morning and he was very pleased with me.  Except that my vitamin  D levels are a little low and my bad cholesterol is a tad high.  And next week I am off for a bone density test.

[kengillard]

hi freshy  don't try  it......:^O you're not 5  or 7 !!