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"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...."
Good morning everyone.
Blue sky here, windy & cold outside, rain tonight.
I am not doing much, only food shopping, which I find very exciting.....not.
Darki......I guess in todays world they think *transfer station* sounds better that *the tip*...........I prefer the last version:^O
Have a good day everyone.
Yep, I like to 'tip' my garbage, but then of course those were the days before the transferred everything to somewhere for further more careful destruction.
Now all our stuff goes onto a 'disembly line' gets crunched down into square blocks and taken away,
Good morning all 🙂
Busy busy day today...Docs at 8.30...chasing another JP, doing the weekly shopping, finding a JP and home by 11.00
Tomorrow is OH's op for his cataract op. have to be there by 7.30.a.m. bit of a drama, but we'll make it. He's staying overnight thank goodness. Taking him to opthamalgic surgeon on Friday and then that's over. Haven't thought much further than that.
Aint old age fun????????????
:^O
It's a great life if you don't weaken ..someone said.
Arvo Gerries♥
How are his eyes gil? hope all went well.
Poor purple its awful when even your aches ache, do hope ypu are feeking better today,
With being able to take Mobic any longer the osteo arthritis has really taken hold of me and my aches ache too 😞 bluddy thing it is.
We are expecting a high of 11˚ today with rain so I won't be going outside either.
That's great news Gil, as you can guess I am reading and replying as I go, so you will have to make sense of my bunch of replies at the end.
You won't regret the cataract ops purple, it makes so much difference.
Morning spring chickens,
havent been able to get on due to being sick again, im still squarkin though lol
Take care everyone, oops Gilly im so happy for Mr Gil, and happy for you, think of you and mum many times, take care be safe and happy EVERYONE
xxxxxxooooooo:-x
Deeeeee you just behave yourself do you hear??? tsk! Wot am I going to do with you.
Enuff I say. You just get better and stay that way okay?
Wicket woman you are. xxxxxx
