"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...."
My god Jean that is so totally rude. Really sometimes I have to wonder about these people.
There was a young person working at my mother's bank many years ago who was abusive about her having an age pension, that she should have money aside.
No thought that my mother went through the war years while I father was out there fighting for the quality of life this young woman had today.... jayzzzzzz
Get another vet Jean, they don't deserve you xx
Hi all, 🙂
Well I'm back and pretty angry ... my word what a crock!
The viewer really took my rep up the garden path.. she had led him to believe she was only looking at this place and then flying back to WA.
Last Friday she let my rep know they would want a settlement in May. Well that suits me as I still have to find a place for myself, so okay!
Paul had put two hours aside for her on his only day off and was going to miss most of the family Christmas bbq to boot.
I was out of the house by 9.30 so that Paul had time here before she arrived at 10.15, having hired a car at the airport.
Two and a half hours later Paul rang me to say she had gone and he was on his way to the bbq.
It turns out she was going to see two other places before flying out at 3 pm... that she would 'have to get a valuer in before making an offer' and that they wouldn't be settling until October!!!!
Now, I ask you.... what sort of a person is she? Well she's a pom for starters... not the nice poms we are fond of, the other kind. She's a vet, and so is, I suspect very pleased with herself... but then, at present I am seriously biased!
She will 'let us know sometime this week'... Yes, well, I am not holding my breath. If she wants settlement in October then she will pay the full asking price with a hefty deposit that she will lose if she renegs... so there
I may be wrong, but that's how it reads to me so far.
I must admit that I was fuming when I got home. We have signed up on line this afternoon, strangely enough with one of the big supermarket chains. We pay just under $15 per fortnight which is for a comprehensive cover including ticks and all sickness and accident. A little expensive, but on the whole I think worth it.
I have to admit that when I enquired into pet insurance I found it was outside my means for 2 dogs... so I rang the vet and he said that if push comes to shove I can pay off anything too expensive.
Gem had a knee operation that cost $1,000 but over ten years I would have paid out a lot more than that in insurances... so for me, I will take my chances but as I said, I'm lucky that the vet knows me well enough to do that.
Jean You shold know that if he goes to the Dr's and gets some relief he wouldn't have anything to whinge about. IMO.
:^O yes moon you are right.
He could also be right jean. Not to say he shouldn't have it checked out.
At the beginning of this year my back began to really play up. Until this time I had not really had any back trouble at all.
I had to give up gym and when I went to my chiropractor he took Xrays.
It turns out I have a curvature of the lumbar spine... that's the bit that goes from your waist (I can't find mine :^O) to your hips..
within that are a couple of missing discs and a whole lot of arthritis.
This has curbed my actions and interests drastically over this year. The chiro said there was little he could do to help it, the doctor said the same, so I finally took myself off to a remedial massager. She helped a bit BUT what I have found that does the trick is Panadeine!
I take ONE only, every 6 hours... never take more than 8 in 24 hours because they are dangerous.
Those 4, sometimes 5 Panadeine make life possible for me.
So if you can't get him to a doctor put him on Panadeine... just make sure he doesn't overdose or he'll hit serious trouble.
Also be aware that they do cause constipation, so he would have to take something for that until his body adjusted to them.
Of course if he wants to whinge then just don't mention it :^O
There are 3 strengths of Panadol Gil
1) Panadol
2) Panadeine
3) Panadeine Forte
The Forte is definitely for extreme pain and yes I have quite a lot left of from B 10 years ago.. so as you can see I don't take them very often :^O
It's best to avoid the Forte, as it is very strong and ofcourse what everyone tells you is codeine based means it is Morphine based as Codien is a derivitave of Morphine which is is a derivitave of Heroine which come from that poppy... so there you go 🙂
