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...."

[grandmoon]

don't think that would be very funny Richo:|   pretty sad really.

It can get quite funny if there is a group of school kids in the Public Gallery.  One day while one of ther female pollies was trying ti answer a question a male pollies was interjecting and holling her down.

A young boy asked his teacher in quite a loud voice "Why the mans teacher didn't make him stand in the corner"

[kengillard]

:^O  it would be funny if it wasn't so sad

[grandmoon]

I had a busy day in the garden yesterday.  Digging out all the tomato and cucumber plants.  Today I have to dig out the zucchini plants the off to the Craft Market for some Ugh slippers as the weather is cooling down in the evenings.

Have a good all

[jvharrison]

Morning all:) Ages since have been in here.......just wondering who in here has very regular check ups with their doctor  The reason i ask is that the OH is currently in hospital with difficult kidney stones.......had one op and another will be being done tomorrow.  Had no pain whatsoever but showed up in his water sample............something to be super diligent about:)

[kengillard]

how you been Jen?

morning all.

[serendipityricho]

Arvo gerries-having a well earned week off work..................Richo

[jvharrison]

Hi Gill going not too bad got the OHs isssues to deal with plus some major issues with my spine but am plodding

Hope u r well:)

Richo u cheecky bugger:)

[serendipityricho]

Good morning gerries.

Half way down the second page again--norti norti..............................Richo.

[darksideofthemoon]

Hello all... just flying by.  Packing is going well and have 5 weeks to go 🙂

[kengillard]

morning all.  Hope you all have a relaxing and safe Easter break:-x