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...."

[beanishells]

I have no news:-(

Only that I have to go and have the test repeated next thursday, due to a problem they encountered.

Oh Purp... yukkies for you 😞

If it makes you feel better I had needles put in me today too...

😞

[beanishells]

LOL @ Twins 🙂

Hey I always wanted to be a junior.... he he he.

mckool was so cheeky to the receptionist today he made a reference to her age and the whole room cracked up...they told us that they knew all the laughter was coming from our corner...

I have these seats around a corner I like. I had my crocheting, as I knew we would be there for hours..and we were...and mckool got bored and started with the jokes..it was almost a party...

I cant take that man anywhere 🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

I cant take that man anywhere 🙂

You just have to Beani, the world is a better place because of him :^O

Come on gerries... BREATHE

[purple_haize]

Good morning Gerries:-)

[grandmoon]

What a day we have had. 

Cold winds, rain and snow.

Yes its been very cold.

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries----keep breathing.

Just clocking in--have the weekend off.

garage sales sat -fishing sunday---does it get any

better than this.

---bit chilly in the nations capital  Grandmoon!.......Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

Evening gerries 🙂  No Richo it can't get better'n'that 🙂

I had a very long day first taking Gem to the vet for a check up of her knee.. so far so good, which is a relief.

Had a lovely lunch with friends and finally got home again sore and tired... a cold wet day down here so am glad to be home again.

[kengillard]

morning all♥

just remembered something about my younger days.

Was unwrapping a slab of butter (el cheapo from the local iga) to put into a container, and remembered my mum keeping all the butter wrappings, and lining cake tins with them....no special oven bake stuff then.

speaking of cakes my Nan used to make the most delicious fluffy double sponge cakes, filled with homemade strawberry jam, and whipped cream....I know I've mentioned this before, but I find it hard to forget them.   Scones too....can't make either:-(

[kengillard]

find anything good at the garage sales Richo?

[serendipityricho]

Arvo gerries -remember the butter wrapping well Gilly.

Elder sister still does it.

Nothing today from garage sales---but have to have a -sniff.