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...."

[kengillard]

morning all

I remember Arsenic and old Lacebut not the others....How about The Day of the Trifids? that's a golden oldie

[darksideofthemoon]

If you can get 'Kind hearts and Coronets' gil, do... it's a great movie and keeps you thinking about it for ages after.

Ah yes, 'Day of the Triffords' I remember.  I bought the cub's cub 'The Children of the Corn', a horror moving from about the 70s I think.  This way I am safe that she hasn't seen it :^O

My eyes are allergic to something at present, probably mowing the grass, so I am seeing through much watering... will catch you all tomorra  xxx

[jean2579]

Gilly...please make sure you have your insurance policies, banking details, property titles, etc. with you.   I went to a bush fire brigade meeting last week and they advised that people who cannot supply documents are put at the end of the claim investigation queues.  Just photcopies will suffice.

It is so easy putting them into a bag by the front door.

I am not taking my laptops.  I have just loaded everything onto thumb drives.   As the brigade said....it may be a false alarm and you can go back the same day.....and always lock up your house when you leave because of potential looting.  Evidently this is common....opportune thieving.

I am ready to grab my babies and leave without thinking about what I need to take with me....including water for the wee ones.

That new advert on tv about planning to leave really hits the nail on the head.  

I am not 100% sure of this, but with the modern laptops and computers, is not all of the information stored on the cloud and you can access it then from any computer anywhere. Perhaps someone who is more computer literate can clarify this. We also back onto a National Park and until I read this thread today I had forgotten to get the emergency pack together. Will do so tomorrow.  Also perhaps you could include your passport.

[kengillard]

good idea about the passport Jean...will get my emergency pack tomorrow....thanks....and freshy too.

At the moment I am sitting here with an ECT..Echo Cardiogram 

strapped to my chest with wires and a recorder dragging down my shoulder.  Have to sleep with it and take it off tomorrow at 4 p.m. and return tomorrow to docs. surgery. Not expecting a good sleep

[kengillard]

night everyone ♥

[jean2579]

night everyone ♥

Before you try to sleep with that thing strapped on, try a few large whiskys.  ]:)

[darksideofthemoon]

I had one of those some years ago gil... annoying bluddy things they are 😞

Hope all is well with you and it shows up how healthy you really are.

Actually jean, I think you are right.  Nowadays we can ring an insurance or health company and with enough of our personal details they can bring up all the rest of our information.  

So yes, it's in the clouds, along with our ancestry.com stuff and god knows how much more.

I'd still take my lap top, it's small and very convenient 🙂

[kengillard]

you mean "concrete softeners" Jean?.....did that with a few chardies.....one cord came off in the night...plugged it back in in the morning.....2 weeks to get results.

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries---just lost a big post.

Not happy.

I worry about you Gilly.

See if this posts---catch up.........................Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

Evening gerries---just lost a big post.

Not happy.

I worry about you Gilly.

See if this posts---catch up.........................Richo.

Don't worry about her Richo, gilly has been surviving chardies for years :^O

Isn't it maddening when you lose a big post.  The Apple macs have something called 'stickies' that you can open and put a post on before pasting in here.  I have used that a lot for reading back or to avoid losing a post.

Does Microsoft have something like that?  It does help.

What has happened to this year?  I can't believe it's almost Christmas again, do the years speed up do you think?