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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 ๐
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 ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
WELCOME ROSIE ๐ the youngest member of the thread :^O
What a lovely time you are going to have Gil.
Yep older dog is teaching young pup the rules ... I have to laugh when Harry does it to one of his young friends.
She's a pug, so very much smaller than Blue Heeler Harry. Every time she doesn't measure up he moves over and stares down at her and she turns away with her head down, but the moment he walks away she's after him - an adoring fan :^O
Well I reckon Rosie will keep you on the move and what a way to go.
Another cold morning but high blue sky and no wind, so once again it's shaping up to be a lovely day.
May it be a good one for you all xx
HI seniors....
Just come up here Purp...its still, quiet, sunny day....cold but not like what you have . We have hardly a cloud in the sky.
If I didnt have so much relisting to do I would prob be tempted to go out again but went a couple of day ago and that will have to do me. It was fun shoppping for a short while with my MUm but its frustrating I cant go into more shops. No energy yet. But you just WAIT and I will be there.
Have a good day everyone ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
Hi everyone, sorry I have been MIA my little poodle had a nasty accident on Sunday evening and I have been dealing with her.
She's ten and both her hind legs have the cruciate ligaments gone, she has arthritis and been having injections for that, but it has meant I must lift her on to the bed at night.
Sunday night I had forgotten something downstairs and as I went back down there was a terrible howl of pain. I raced back up stairs (take the word 'raced' metaphorically) and found her on the bed but with her 'good' leg curled up against her body. When I tried to move it he howled ๐
I gave her half a Panadol and the next morning got her up to the vet in a hurry. Thankfully her hip is not dislocated but she is badly sprained and is now on anti-inflammatories.
Soooo that am now having to lift her up to take her outside, bring her downstairs and upstairs again at night.
She's a game little thing and will give anything a go, so once the anti-inflammatories kicked in she is finally got all systems going again..
Gil poor Oscar, he needs to have his place in the house reinforced... everything first for him as freshwater said.. you need to put make a big fuss of him and make sure he knows he's your 2nd in command or you will find he will begin to be difficult to live with. Also puppies must be clear they are at the bottom of the ladder and have to prove themselves. So much as you love to dote, just be aware.
I have had trouble with Harry dusting up the neighbourhood with barking and rushing around every time I let him out... it's all part of 'Gem's getting all the attention, so I will do all the things I shouldn't so she will shout at me and I will be noticed" :_|
Needless to say, carrying 12 kilos upstairs to bed is not my idea of fun but I can't leave her downstairs and I really don't want to came downstairs unless it is impossible for me to climb up with her.
ANYWAY that is why I have not been around.
Yep darn right richo men can get grumpy in hospitals but by the same token when someone (anyone) is beginning to feel better it is a sure sign it is happening when they get grumpy... women take it as a good sign in sick children :^O
We still have our coldest part of the year ahead of us down here. Not that it's impossible to live with when the sun shines, and ofcourse all houses and heated etc... We won't see spring until about October and even then we could get snow in December.
Hope everyone is okay and Rose is being a good girl Gil... my love to Oscar the Outcast ๐
