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]

congratulations on becoming a pensioner Heather etc.

If you need the pension, please apply ASAP, while you still have your marbles....centrelink make it SO involved, detailed, and confusing.

good luck!

[kengillard]

Best of luck for Gem tomorrow Darkie♥

[freshwater-2]

Hi Jackass.  did you know that, unlike the Germans, the British didn't issue parachutes to their flyers in WW1?  The flyers wore those long scarves to wipe the engine oil from their goggles. So many actually caught fire. No wonder the average was only six weeks that they survived. The Red Baron got all the good press, but his brother Lothar? was a better flyer.  And the best of them was Hermann Goerring...who turned into a monster during WW11

Oh do shut up, Freshie, you do go on and on.  LOL

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries.

Heather --take thad advise and start now-took me 9 weeks.

Mention a war and we get a couple of recruits to the thread.

Darki-hope your dog is ok.

Freshwater- another photo -taken the same day-

(would think with the same camera)-is in the

Searcy collection of photos in the State Library of SA.

-the plane is in the air.-in that photo.

A book on Harry Hawker just finished on here -no bids

at $10.00----got too many books and didnt bid........Richo.

[grandmoon]

Afternoon all.

Its cold and  wet here.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Happy Birthday Mum xxxxxxxxxxxxx

[purple_haize]

Afternoon all.

Its cold and  wet here.

it is cold and wet here too.

[purple_haize]

Hello Zaidee, hope you are doing okay.

Hi to everyone else.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Hello Purps, im getting there love, hope your doing well too, it is bitterly cold today, take care ok when i get a bit better i will be back in to talk again, have a great night:-x

[purple_haize]

You keep warm too Zaidee, very cold and wet today. Look forward to hearing from you when you post again.:-x