The Seniors Thread :-)

"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 ๐Ÿ™‚



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 ๐Ÿ™‚



So, onward and upward.  Let's go...."



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mornin all............lunch out today......

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Hi Darki I can beat that 17/nov 1936


am I the oldest lets see and still getting around still drive


Have most of the complaints you mentioned


But I try to stay positive


Hi to every one else will pop in now and again to see what is happening


Love to all :-x

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Morning gerries---Welcome Poodlefox.


Im a youngster-just made the cutoff at 1947.


Some of the others on here are waiting around for


a telegram from the Queen-lol.

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Now now Richo.  You're just a babyB-)


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I think you are the oldest Poodlefox.  I'm 1938


 


 

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Good morning Gilly--yep just a pup.


But the oldest teenager in town.


~~~wave to the other regular posters Darki,Grandmoon,Purple,Beani and Freshi-


who must have got a life......................................Richo.

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Lift your game gerriies--just rescued the thread from the second page.

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rescued !!!!...thanks Richo.....

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Hi Darki I can beat that 17/nov 1936


am I the oldest lets see and still getting around still drive


Have most of the complaints you mentioned


But I try to stay positive


Hi to every one else will pop in now and again to see what is happening


Love to all :-x



 


Hi there poodlefox... now enuff of your boasting old girl,  we are right on your heels...:^O


 


Yes the complaints are now the types that don't go away again... still to my horror I find I am getting used to them... now is this normal?  You can tell me 'coz you're older'n'me and you will know ๐Ÿ™‚


 


Good thing Richo is here to rescue us isn't it.  I'm a bit slow at present, just have nothing to say and I say it so well... ๐Ÿ˜‰


 


 


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course it's "normal" Darki.............onwards and upwards :^O

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Evening gerries----that Harry the dog is a worry for you Darki.


Gilly-well i have nearly given up-lol.......................Richo.


ps Poodlefox may have forgotten where she posted!

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