"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...."
I thought of steps fresh, but then I thought of falling over them myself in the middle of the night and so decided against them. Maybe I should think it out again, I'll go and have a look at one of the pet shops.
poor Gem... poor old lady...sorry to hear that. hope she recovers soon
Rosie's being a good snuggly darling....Oscar seems to have accepted her and just ignores her now. As does Nutty..ignore is the name of the game.
Bye all....having our respective hairs cut today...
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How many respective hairs do you have cut Gil? :^O
How are you? and so glad everyone is ignoring eachother, they will end up accepting the new little person and then it should be 'game on' ... hope so ๐
Gem is a tad better, and did get around a bit more yesterday, but fresh you are soooo right, we do worry so much about them and I am exhausted with the distress of it.
They are both going to the vet this morning for inoculations so she will get another check up, will ask more questions, I'd like to know what muscles or tendons she's injured if they can tell me. It means I can begin to massage the area and maybe move the healing process along a bit.
Well we have wind here today and it is pushing the trees around in my bush so that I have a bit more of a view of the D'Entracasteaux Channel, which is nice.
See ya all later.
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Thanks for that advice Richo....very helpfulโฅ
Doing that Gil, isn't Richo helpful :^O
Gem has destroyed her cruciate ligament in her knee and the vet took one look today and said "Oh dear, that's that, we can't wait any longer, she'll have to have an operation.
Well thankfully I have had a dog that had to have it done some 14 years ago, so I am somewhat knowledgeable about it.. but... JAYZUS how I hate that she has to go through it... Our furbabies are so important to us in these years aren't they.
Anyway it will be done next Thursday.. what a great 73rd birthday :_| At least she will be out of pain and able to walk again...
Morning all.
Thankgoodness our fur babies are okay, although the little maltese is getting old and was limping yesterday, but I think she hurt her leg jumping off the bed. She seems okay today.
I have a touch of asthma today and have to go have a ECG done at lunch time.
No wind or rain here, so over the rain, can contend with the cold if the sun shines.
Enjoy your day everyone and look after your 4 legged babies.
I just hope purple she hasn't done in her cruciate ligament... it's so painful for them, and that is the usual injury when they go jumping off higher things than they should.. If it continues do check it with the vet.. or read my 'Gem saga' sigh ๐
