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]

thought that was  Gin Richo?

[freshwater-2]

Hey Margo, remember Wolfie Pizen's Coachman Restaurant in the easter suburbs.....circa 1960's?   

I loved the Coachman.....3 times a week when I lived at Double Bay (in the days when the man  paid for the dinner). ;-).

[serendipityricho]

No Gilly---she was dutch----------lol.

[kengillard]

I remember freshie.   lovely place.  OH father was into the Food and Wine Soc. and went there often.  took us too.

[kengillard]

Richo!!   Norty Boy!

[freshwater-2]

Hi Gilly,  I think Wolfie, and John Malik (?),  went from there and established The Waterfront at Darling Harbour.  It just didn't have the atmosphere of the Coachman, which was iconic.

[margomeoz]

Hi Fresh I totally remember it I used to go there 3 times a week myself, another favourite of mine was georges at Double Bay.

Loved all the silver service ones not many around now that meet the standard of the old ones.

Hi Purple, lyndal, richo, gill, oh and darkie.

Must pop in here more often I think it more my age group. 😄

I hardly come near the boards now but this is a nice thread.

Have a great Christmas all.

[freshwater-2]

Yes Margo (and Gilly), it was a good time to be young, and in the eastern suburbs. 

Margo, this has been a lovely thread from the first post by Darki.

I guess it is because we all have life experiences and are happy with where we are right now.

It is a great friendly mob on this thread. 

We have already made the mistakes (and learned from them) that the younger ones haven't even experiened yet.  😉

Gawd help them....because I don't think most are equipped to handle them.

Now y'all come back again, ya hear?

[kengillard]

Hope you're all not tooo busy today and have nummy  and peaceful Christmas.♥

I have a little bit of food shopping to do and that's it.

[lyndal1838]

Everything done here....OH just has to pick up a loaf of bread on his way home. I decided on the spur of the moment that what I got yesterday may not be enough so ordered another one from the bakery.