"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...."
Oh moon, had I known you had a 2 year old with you early this morning I could have let my dogs stay with you... They are always up by about 6 :_|
Seriously I have to admire you, my days of caring for tinies are so far over that I might even have forgotten how ๐
I am having a look at the property I am interested in today...
Good morning Darki :^O
Hey you lot, have you forgotten to breathe????
You know, in, out, in, out.... ๐ฎ
:^O
Well I do continue to breathe but the in out in out bit havn't done for some time but while I continue to breathe there is always hope I suppose
:^O, ya just never know jackass... it might still happen, after all, Charlie Chaplin sire a daughter Geraldine, when he was 80 so make sure you take precautions :^O
YUM cabbage rolls, I haven't seen them for years.
My weekend is STILL being taken up with the buying/selling plans.
I have the agent here today to put this place on the market and then I am taking a tape measure over to the other place to check a few things... I live in hope she won't sell before I do.
She's been multi listed on the market for 8 months with no takers and I understand why, as the house is a bit small, but as I only need one bedroom I can make the other bedroom into a lounge, so all is well....
We will see ๐
