"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...."
**sneaks in and takes all the stoppers off the walking frames, lets down the tyres on the wheelchairs and hides all the false teeth in the glasses **
:^O **snicker snicker**
***runs out and hides***
Ooooo you Wicket Woman spud :^O wait until we get to you and your walking frame 😉
Good morning all 🙂
Hi ya Jean and thank you for all that advice... thankfully I have sold several times before so the process is not new to me.
I would never let someone move in before settlement day... for no other reason that I couldn't move out until then :^O... no, seriously, that is never on in my book.
My agent is really great and very willing to answer all questions. The house I am looking at today has got a structural problem which the building inspector reported on three years ago when the house was sold, but it has never been fixed... $3,000 will fix it, and as the seller is selling something like $40k under the local prices around there, I am happy to pay for it as I will be getting the house a lot cheaper than I will sell it for when it has been brought up to date and then embelished 🙂
I also have a good lawyer and a very good 'money man', so I am well covered with their expertise..
What a business tho... I will be glad when it's over. Coupled with going through this house, taking out the stuff I can send to the tip, the stuff I would put in a garage sale if Richo was around, but not this time... then I have to find kind homes for all my books, decide what furniture will go into storage for my son when he arrives down here... there is so much to do.
Anyway hopefully I will put in an offer today and an understanding that the structural problem will be fixed before I move in put into the contract... so all being well, I can then concentrate on the moving side of things...
Hope you are all keeping well BUT if you see the spud... make sure you take her shoes away 😉
