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...."

[serendipityricho]

Hi Grandmoon---being a bloke---i just sneeze- cough and put up with it.

Have an idea -Darkis move in date is the 5th May.

Getting closer now.

[grandmoon]

Morning Richo

Its people like me who suffer with asthma who need the injections as if we get the flu it can be fatal.

[kengillard]

OH and I have had our flu shots too Richo.   Can't risk getting the bad flu at our age

[lyndal1838]

😄 Coughing and sneezing is a cold (aka Man Flu) not the real flu.

If you ever get the real dinky di flu you will know about it.

It is definitely the time for flu shots....OH and I had them 10 days ago and just for fun the doctor threw in a pap smear and orders for a mammogram and a routine bone mineral density scan.

Oh well, at least it will all be out of the way for another year or so.

[kengillard]

what a thorough doctor you have Lyndal

[lyndal1838]

Yes, he is thorough which is the reason that we have been going to him for well over 20 years now.

I was not really surprised though as I was due for the first two, and I have never had a bone mineral density scan. I am not expecting trouble as I have never in my life had broken bones or fractures.  I think he is just being cautious....my mother suffered several fractures in her later years although she did not have osteoporosis, and Dad had osteoporosis but never had any fractures.

[rosieglen]

I havent been in here for ages - such a lot has been going on while I was absent!

So glad Darki is moving at last - I do hope it goes smoothly for her,

Had my flu injections this year - no side effects at all thank goodness.  Have never had a bone density test - might see about that one.

[kengillard]

I'd never broken any bones either Lyndal, until I had a fall and broke my pelvis in 3 places...further tests diagnosed osteoporosis.....glad you're having the bone density scan....I'm taking vit D and Calcium tablet daily and also have an injection every 6 months, which is supposed to be helping....hope so.

[jean2579]

OI !!!!! Wake up you lot, 4 days without a comment. Where is everyone, you can't all be having a Nanna or Poppy nap.

Richo what is happening, we rely on you to gee things up around here

Darki, how is the move going,

Grandmoon did you get the flu.

Noodlenuts, this is a bad start, one post and you disappear, you need more stanima than that to be a senior.

Lyndal, how did the tests go,

Rosieglen  - surely you are not going to leave us again.

:^O:-x;-):B-)

[kengillard]

aren't you talking to me Jean?:^O