"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...."
Hi to all you lovies out there. Just clocking on. It is spring and I am busy weeding, building a rockery, lugging rocks. All is well in my world.
They switched off analog tv here yesterday so no reception. I am waiting for the tv man to come today and do things with the antennae, etc. so I can get digital. I may satellite because of my mini rainforest. I missed Rake on ABC last nighty....grrrrrr.
How are the curtains going freshie???? hohoho! I haven't heard from you so I expect you have decided it's all too hard.
It's not, it's a great deal easier than you can imagine.... come on girl... you can do it 🙂
morning gerries♥
Still no rain up here....
I lie....we had one spit on Saturday and one spit on Sunday:-(
Clouded over this morning....supposed to have a storm this afternoon....we live in hope.
Gil if I send you some rain, could you please send me some sun? We need sun to photograph this property and it has done nuffin' but rain all day long sigh 😞
Morning all, still raining here Gil, so obviously my efforts to send you some didn't work 😞
Nuffin to report really, have got this god awful cough and cold and so am just jarmie-sitting to help it to go away.
