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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...."
Hi everyone ๐
Hope you are having a good day ๐
Nothing much to report...cant seem to just sit around for long, so even with legs in these darn stockings I cant stop myself pottering around and enjoying doing stuff.
No rest for us jumping beans, he he he.
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Well....changed my mind about going to hospital for my hand yesterday....the swelling had gone down...going to the docs tomorrow to have it checked tho. cellulitis....keeping a very close eye on it!
cleaner here today...Rosie thinks she's here to entertain her!:^O
Geee darki....can't imagine you as a bikies mollB-)
Ah still water run deep gil... there's more to this old gal that shows. Had a great leather jacket but we didn't wear helmets on those days... Great times indeed ๐
Hi everyone ๐
Hope you are having a good day ๐
Nothing much to report...cant seem to just sit around for long, so even with legs in these darn stockings I cant stop myself pottering around and enjoying doing stuff.
No rest for us jumping beans, he he he.
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Hello little Mexican Jumping Beani, love that you come in here and let us know how you are. You just keep pottering and enjoying stuff xx
Darkie the ex-bikie moll......I am a current bikie moll. I ride pillion on my son in laws's 750cc Honda.Shadow on Ulysses Club rides.
My daughter the wimp won't get on the thing.....but I absolutely love it. I've got all my gear including a Rivett airbag jacket. If only bystanders knew there was old gal under all that gear. LOL.
Oh sigh! How I wish ๐
For a long time now I have moaned to my son that I want a helicopter ride. He did actually begin training to be a pilot until another aspect of his career took over, and I have always regretted he never got his license.
However... he has now promised me that when the arrive down here he will make arrangements for me to have a helicopter ride at loooong last. ๐
When I was an amublance officer I was trained to prepare patients to be flown out of situations by helicopter and did, on serveral occasions, have to transport a patient that way, so I have been close enough to them to see inside and yearn all the more.... Now it might actually happen one day.
I suppose the ex-bikie moll still wants to ride again :^O
Oh freshie I get into so much trouble not acting my age ๐
But that's me... I can't help it ๐
ON THE ROAD AGAIN..... 
