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]

hello grandmoon

good job .....best to have tests

[kengillard]

morning gerries:-x

[purple_haize]

Good morning seniors:-)

Elect. co. turning power off soon, so have to get everything done, before they do and it is only 8deg........do they care...NO.

have a great day!

[freshwater-2]

Hi purple.  I  occasionally have it switched off for hours for some sort of maintenance.  I always fill a thermos with coffee, turn the electric blanket onto 3 beforehand as a desperation backup  I am lucky that I use cylinder gas for heat.  I only need power to click it on and make sure it is on before I lose power.

However, a good time to go into town and do shopping, or meet friends for coffee.

If you use a pc router make sure it is switched off.  I didn't last time and mine fried in spite of having surge protection.  Go figure.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Hi seniors, wishng you all a wonderful day take care be safe and happy 🙂

[grandmoon]

Morning all

I am going back to bed as it is minus 5 degs now.

Will get up when it warms up a little.

[purple_haize]

Good morning all:-)

It is cold here this morning.......would go back to bed, but it is food shopping day, so have to keep moving.

Enjoy your day everyone and lets hope the earth doesnt move again.......was scarey.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Goodmorning,

I hope everyone is safe from the earthquake, purps i was thinking of you last night when you said you were alone, did you get any sleep? take it easy today and relax, being old aint easy hahahahahahahahahahaha, im joking i hope you know that,

wishing you all a happy and safe day. Keep warm it is a cold one today:-)

[purple_haize]

Zaidee

got to face facts, I am old and after last night, I feel older still. No, didnt get alot of sleep, sort of tossed and turned for most of the night.

Going to be cold, so you look after yourself, oh, and thanks for thinking of me.......:-)

[zaidee.summerlily]

For Purple