"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 ๐
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 ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
Good morning all ๐ Yep over in your thread and now here Richo...
Another Open Home tomorrow... sick of keeping the house up to scratch but worse than that is the feeling that there surely must be something I should do to prepare for these days.
There's nothing of course unless I want to blitz the garden and the muse is not with me ๐
A lot of the garden has burned due to the excessive heat we have had here, not forgetting that Tas plants and trees are not used to it at all. I am keeping the dead heads on the hydrangeas as they are protecting the rest of the plant, but they do look unsightly.
Jean you do know you can ring the ambulance if you are worried about your blood pressure, they can assess you and take you into hospital if they deem it necessary, you don't have to wait for the doctor - that is why doctors are not doing house calls any longer, the ambulance has taken that task over from them.
Doctors are for situations and conditions that are not emergencies, but blood pressure can be an emergency and dangerous if it is too high, so if you are really worried please don't hesitate to call them, you won't be being a nuisense I promise you ๐
Beani so glad you are settled into your new place and now you can unpack at leisure ๐
My eldest will be 52 in May, I can't believe it is such a long time since she was born. I remember so clearly being 52 and now she is... gawd! ๐ฎ
Take care everyone, I will return promise ๐
