"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...."
Morning all ๐
Well Gem managed in a short space of time - and it must have been remarkably short as she has been under my eye 24/7, to undo some of her sutures!
Thank goodness I am keeping her knee wrap in the crepe bandage and due to that, the wound has not opened up at all BUT how and when is beyond me grrrrrr X-(
I will ring the vet this morning and just check that it doesn't need any attention. It's not seeping and I have now firmed up the crepe bandage with a nylon stocking bound around it too. I have learned of old that for some reason a stocking seems to work very well.
She did manage some weight bearing walking yesterday, just a few steps but enough for me to feel glad she's on the mend.
Beani I have left you a message. I'm so sorry this is happening to your mum, and yes horrifying to think about, but I am picking she is made of very stern stuff and will handle it very well, more bettererer than her family me thinks. ๐
Love the thought Gil that Rosie is at the toilet roll stage... oh wot fun :^O
When Harry was a kid he stole my brand new Harry Potter book and tore it to shreds... I had only read the first chapter ๐
Talking about war planes mal, my father used to collect all the magazines of WWI & II planes with photos and the history of them.
I imagine he left them to his step son, they would be very valuable now so I'm glad I can rely on the fact that they will never be sold.
I didn't get into Kings Cross as a regular thing, we spent our time on motor bikes. There was a gang of us - but no, not 'bikies' just several blokes including my boyfriend and me.
We used to go to the Bathurst races or down to Wollongong or up to Newcastle for the day. Hamburgers and Coca Cola and home again.
We went everywhere on the bikes, they cost so little to run and yet were such a great time.
Mind you, I also had a boyfriend who played the steel guitar and over that time I met a number of the known singers around Sydney. People like Jimmy LIttle and Frank Ifield, Peter Allen and several others whose names escape me at present... gee they are old names now aren't they.
Well Gem is on the road to recovery and now goes down the three steps to the garden. The wound has just about vanished, which of course it will as her 'fur' grows back. I am still carrying her up to bed and down again, but we see the vet on Monday, so will then re-introduce her to doing it on her own.
Rosie has got the others all tied up in a neat package with pink bow on top Gil :^O They just have to play, she won't let them lie around like sausages ignoring her.
Just watching the blue wrens in my garden, they 'live' with me and nest in the bushes or under the verandah. Perfectly happy with the dogs, ignoring them. When it is spring and it's wet underfoot the males see their reflections in my windows and, thinking they are other males, attack them leaving muddy foot prints all over the glass :^O
Ah! see ya later ๐
