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...."

[freshwater-2]

Oh yes, Grandmoon.  All the neighbours with the children used to gather at a local bonfire and let off crackers.   They were such joyful gettogethers.....both for the adults and the children.

[darksideofthemoon]

I love birds moon and will be doing gardens in the new place to  make sure I get lots of them.

Hahaha freshie, the last fire cracker night I recall I was about 14 and had a crush on the boy of the road (I learned some 20 years later he did on me too ) and I collected a huge box of crackers that we could let off in the street with all the other kids in the area.

Came the big night and before even one cracker was let off he dropped a live match in the box by accident and it was all over in a BIG flash... 

Beautiful while it lasted but that was it :_|

[kengillard]

Night lovely ladies...........and Richoxx

[freshwater-2]

Beautiful while it lasted but that was it.

The crackers going off, Darkli.....or the flingette?

[lyndal1838]

It was my father's birthday on Cracker Night and he strung the local kids along by telling us that the bonfires and crackers were to celebrate his birthday.

He got away with it for about 15 years because as we grew up and twigged to it, we did not tell the younger ones.

I think I was about 18 before the last of the younger ones outed him.

By that time he was stringing them along with who his brother was.  Brian Henderson was very big on TV, with Bandstand and the News....our name was Henderson and Dad looked a bit like him, probably because they wore the same glasses.  He got away with that one for quite a while too.:O

[darksideofthemoon]

Hahaha Lyndal, your dad had a good imagination, catching the opportunities presented to him like cracker night... and Brian Henderson... he's be hard to beat :^O

The whole box went up, it was a great display for about 2 minutes and then it was over 😞

[kengillard]

morning all♥

Thank God we don't live in New York!

[grandmoon]

The best tall tale my Nan told was when my cousin and his friend asked her how old she was. 

She told them she was over 200 years old and had been here when Captain Cook landed and she asked the natives not to kill him.

[darksideofthemoon]

:^O well moon, her heart was in the right place.

I don't think Cook killed any aboriginals, but he was killed by some in Hawaii

Initially relations between the Europeans and the Hawaiians were friendly and peaceful. The genial atmosphere broke down after a series of thefts from the European stores. Tensions came to a head on the night of the 13-14 February, 1779 when the Discovery’s cutter boat was stolen. On the morning of the 14th of February, Cook, Lieutenant Molesworth Phillips and nine marines went ashore and attempted to take hostage Terreeoboo, the Hawaiian King.

This strategy of Cook’s intended to force the Hawaiians to return the cutter. However in the confusion, shots were fired and one of the high-ranking chiefs, Kalimu, was killed. At that point, the crowds on the shore responded in anger. As Cook and the marines returned to their boats, they were attacked on the beach. Cook fired his gun and killed a Hawaiian warrior. In return, he was struck on the head by a club and speared by an iron dagger. Falling into the water, he was not seen alive again.

That's a bit of a cliff hanger isn't it.  Today conspiracy theorists would wonder if he survived and managed to escape to return to England :^O

[kengillard]

exciting night last night.:-(

OH had a diabetic hypo...ambos were called and he ended up in Hospital for a few hours.  They called me at 1.30 a.m. to come and pick him up, got back here at 3.10 a.m......so a bit tired today.    Will definitely have a nanny nap this arvo.