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...."

[darksideofthemoon]

Oh dear, there's been some bad behaviour has there moon... Well I hope the towel boys give them a great time. 🙂

We are not supposed to get rain until Wednesday, but I have to admit it's looking that way a bit at present.  

Here's something you might all enjoy.  It was sent by a friend earlier today.

And it's winter before we know it You know, time has a way of moving quickly and catching you unaware of the passing years.  It seems just yesterday that I was young, just married and embarking on my new life with my mate.   And yet in a way, it seems like eons ago, and I wonder where all the years went.  I know that I lived them all. And I have glimpses of how it was back then and of all my hopes and dreams... But, here it is..the winter of my life and it catches me by surprise... How did I get here so fast? Where did the years go and where did my babies go? And where did my youth go?  I remember well seeing older people through the years and thinking that those older people were years away from me and that winter was so far off that I could not fathom it or imagine fully what it would be like... But, here it is...my friends are retired and really getting gray...they move slower and I see an older person now. Lots are in better shape than me... But, I see the great change...  Not like the ones that I remember who were young and vibrant... But, like me, their age is beginning to show and we are now those older folks that we used to see and never thought we'd be.  Each day now, I find that just getting a shower is a real target for the day!  And taking a nap is not a treat anymore...it's mandatory!  Cause if I don't on my own free will...I just fall asleep where I sit!  And so, now I enter into this new season of my life unprepared for all the aches and pains and the loss of strength and ability to go and do things that I wish I had done but never did!!  But, at least I know, that though the winter has come, and I'm not sure how long it will last...this I know, that when it's over...its over....Yes , I have regrets. There are things I wish I hadn't done ,,,,,things I should have done, but indeed, there are many things I'm happy to have done.  It's all in a lifetime.... So, if you're not in your winter yet...let me remind you, that it will be here faster than you think. So, whatever you would like to accomplish in your life please do it quickly!  Don't put things off too long!! Life goes by quickly.  So, do what you can today, as you can never be sure whether this is your winter or not!  You have no promise that you will see all the seasons of your life...so, live for good today and say all the things that you want your loved ones to remember and hope that they appreciate and love you for all the things that you have done for them in all the years past!  Remember your family and friends really can't read your mind so say what needs to be said and ask for what you want and need.  Don't expect them to just know and then get mad because they didn't and you did't let them know. "Life is a gift to you. The way you live your life is your gift to those who come after.  Make it a fantastic one." LIVE IT WELL

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries.

Some food for thought in that last post Darki.

Rest of you--loosen up and give me

25 push ups----lol............................Richo.

[jean2579]

Evening gerries.

Some food for thought in that last post Darki.

Rest of you--loosen up and give me

25 push ups----lol............................Richo.

Evening Richo.

What you actually want us to risk a hernia? BTW can women get a hernia?]:) I am in love with emoticons

[lyndal1838]

🙂 I am in love with emoticons

Short answer...Yes!!!:-D

[darksideofthemoon]

Short answer...Yes!!!:-D

Long answer - Indeed you can!  :^O

Does anyone remember telegrams?

[freshwater-2]

Telegrams?  Oh yes, delivered by a boy on the post office bicycle.   Few people had  phones back then and this was the only way to urgently contact people. And don't forget the cables from overseas.....actually I think they were still around in the 1960's.....maybe even later.

[freshwater-2]

Re women and hernias.   I believe (not sure) that women have finer and tighter 'woven' skin than men,, which makes it stronger,   Kinda like fabrics.  Nature probably made it like this for carrying a babe during pregnancy.  Women do get hernias, but it is not common like men.  I hope this makes sense.

[grandmoon]

Yes women can get hernias.  I had a double hernia and ended up with strangulation of the the bowel.  Women are more likely to have hernia around the navel area.

[lyndal1838]

Yes, telegrams were still around in the 60s.  My then fiance, later husband (and now ex OH) was in the Navy and used to send them from overseas occasionally (cablegrams) and from interstate quite often to let me know when he would be home.

[darksideofthemoon]

Yes, telegrams were still around in the 60s.  My then fiance, later husband (and now ex OH) was in the Navy and used to send them from overseas occasionally (cablegrams) and from interstate quite often to let me know when he would be home.

So his promotion was ongoing was it Lyndal?  Fiance, husband and then X OH    Hope he fared better in the navy... :^O

My granddaughter wants to join the navy when she has finished school.  Her father, my son was in the forces for 20 years.  First the army and later the airforce, so I think she feels she should 'round it off' 🙂

I keep remembering things when I'm not here and then forgetting them when I am 😞

Do you remember when you waited to see the doctor in the afternoon when he did house calls?

OH yes... and (as I have appointment to see the dentist) do you remember the old slooooowwwww drills they used to use and the huge GINORMOUS needles?  They still give me the willies... 🙂