on 10-01-2012 06:23 AM
"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...."

on 07-08-2012 06:33 AM
Evening gerries---the old-token bloke appears!
Been busier than a one armed wallpaperer.
Looks like everyone -made the cut.
Good morning token bloke 🙂 the mind boggles, a one armed wallpaperer... just think of the mess 😮

on 07-08-2012 08:23 AM
Good morning token bloke 🙂 the mind boggles, a one armed wallpaperer... just think of the mess 😮
I would like to see a one armed wallpaperer.......glad I wouldnt be cleaning up the mess:-D
on 07-08-2012 08:27 AM
Good morning Seniors:-)
I have to go for a consultation with a Gastroenterologist, to see about having a procedure done........camera down the throat.
Going to be lovely day here weatherwise, hope it is the same for everyone.
on 07-08-2012 08:57 AM
what fun for you! I've had that a few times .....until they invented that camera down the throat thingy, I was diagnosed as all sorts of things, patted on the head, given some more valium and sent away. Turns out my body produces too much stomach acid, which used to burn the lining of my stomach, thus giving me symptoms of stomach ulcers...marvellous what a little pill can do...that was 30 years ago. No probs since.
on 07-08-2012 09:19 AM
Well, Gill, today is just a consultation, however I am not looking forward to having the camera down my throat when the time comes.
I have a pain that wont go away, so my dr. wants to check it all out & see what is going on.
I think in all the tests that I have had, this is the only one I havent had.
It is good that you dont have problems any more, I hope a little pill will fix mine up as well.
on 07-08-2012 10:00 AM
on 07-08-2012 10:04 AM
Hello all and sundries 🙂
Beani have you got my message in your 'my content' box?
How wonderful to have a cleaner in, I have to stir my stumps and get my bedrooms cleaned today. I tend to ignore it because it's upstairs ... sigh!
Purple, that's not a nice thing, but they do give you lots of valium so by the time they get to do it you don't really care 🙂
I had a bleeding ulcer that was caused by a helibactrim... again a little pill fixed it :^O
Take care of you and you too gil xx

on 07-08-2012 10:08 AM
on 07-08-2012 10:13 AM
on 07-08-2012 12:36 PM
Hay RICHO I was a fella the last time I looked and yeah I don't post a lot but do hang about on the edges and read most of the stuff ..
Has been darn cold here in melbourne so have been hugging the fire most days so not a lot done in the boys shed but have had a couple of wins on ebay so am happy with that..
The pretty half has to go in and have the cateracts done in her eye on friday so we are a little worried about that as it is the first one and when that is ok the other one is done but hopefully all will go as planed..Our son said he would get a pirate eye patch for her so I said I would get a cockroach for her shoulder so she could have a coccy on her shoulder but she wasn't impressed with the idea
arh well can't win em all can yer
Ok better go get lunch for her or I will be in the well known canoe up the creek again..