"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...."
OK gerries, comments and suggestions please. I went to the Cardiologist 6 months ago and was told to take Aspirin to thin blood. So did so. Went to the GP 2 weeks ago for blood pressure issues he told me that the Aspirin was a very bad idea to stop immediately. Did so. Went back to Cardiologist yesterday for pacemaker check and copped a round for stopping Aspirin. Now I figure that as I can't please either of them, I am going to stop Aspirin and take a glass of whisky each night instead. That should take care of both blood pressure and pacemaker. If it proves fatal at least I will go out with a smile on my face. Any other ideas?:^O
Jean, take the aspirin.... it is just tiny doses to stop blood clotting, it isn't the usual dose aspirin we all know.
It has been developed especially for people with heart trouble or in the likelihood of strokes... it thins the blood enough to keep it healthy...
In your case my dear, back on it, you Cardiologist knows what he is saying. Your GP should speak to him, not you.
Take the whisky for medicinal poiposes only 😉
Morning all, very tired over this house selling stuff... I have had an offer for $60,000 below the asking price, what on earth are the people thinking? It's bluddy insulting X-(
They keep putting in demands and orders, like they would like to move in early May, that they have only X amount of money (forget the house on the hill they built last year) blah blah blah...
The seem to forget that I am the one with the property and if they want it, they dance to my tune... grrrrrr....
Moon sorry to hear about the asthma attack.. yes good question, what made it so bad? Hope you find out.
Keep well everyone please 🙂
