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...."

[grandmoon]

I have just heard that there have been very bad storms in the south of Tassie.

I hope that Darki is safe.

[purple_haize]

I read that before online, I dont know which part of Tasmania she is in.

Hope she is okay.

[kengillard]

West of Hobart.....I'm sure she'll come in and talk to us

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries--bit hard posting since the new improvements.
Except for a couple of bumps from a phantom poster
the rest of you have been vegetating.
Do a nude streak around the block-or
something different.
Need -Freshwater to post and give some ideas.
--taking a long time to post............................Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

Phew!  Hello all and yes I'm okay, but utterly tired out ...

Huge gale force winds just about flattening everything all around.  We lost power at 10.30 and it didn't come back on until 6.30.

We had a lull finally in the winds, but I can hear them picking up again now.

All south Tasmania was blacked out and of course it could happen again if the winds begin again.

I have done nothing all day long due to lack of power and just the complete exhaustion from the wind.  Even standing on the edge of my verandah required I hung on... blazers! 😮

[darksideofthemoon]

Freshie has hurt her wrist quite badly and I think finds it hard to type at present.

I suspect a broken scaphoid bone, she's not so sure, but will see a doctor next week if it doesn't begin to come right soon.

It's actually called an old person's fracture because if/when we fall we tend to put out our hand to save ourselves and as our hand bends backwards the small bone at the base of the thumb in your wrist cops the pressure of the fall - hence snap! 😞

She'll be back I'm sure 🙂

[terracottacar]

I'm not a phantom. Just a Ford Fiesta that's too young to post on your thread.

You all have such great memories and I love to read about the olden days - even though they are a little before my time ('64).

But I do remember the milkman with his horse and cart and how he would whistle to the horse to move on while he delivered our milk. I also remember the postie on his treadly and how we would run to the letterbox when he blew his whistle.

[purple_haize]

Glad you are okay Darki and also hope Freshie's wrist will get better soon.

The olden days were the best, every thing was so simple, life was simple and less stress.
It was a wonderful time to grow up in, so many memories, of the *good old days*.

[terracottacar]

Bumping for ye oldies.

[freshwater-2]

Hi all, just checking in.  Darki is right.  It looks like I have broken a bone in my hand.  I plinted it....and the good news is that it is my left hand......and  I will live. !!!

No Gilly, I wasn't on a ladder when I fell.  I had just built a rock garden and was standing on the highest rock trying to pull a vine growing up the trunk of a tree...leaning back....and the vine snapped.  I did a backwards gutzer and I hit my head on the side of my runabout and fell on my wrist.   No damage to the boat. tee hee.

Darki has been wonderful in helping me make my first curtains...but that is on hold for the time being.

The injury really cramps my style.  La de la de da.......

Now...how are all you lovely mature-with-life-experiences gals and hunks out there?..