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...."

[kengillard]

morning all.

that was well before my time....we moved there in about 1967.. 3 eldest kids brought up at the beach most of the time...still very fond of the surf they are.....not me tho. Never did like sand in places they shouldn't have beenX-(

[purple_haize]

Morning Gerries:-)

Just popping in to say hi.......

Not feeling very well at the moment & have to have the CT Scan done again on thursday.

Have a great day.

[zaidee.summerlily]

Good day to everyone, take care wishing you al the best.

Mum, Purple xx

[beanishells]

HI everyone.... big wave

Hugs to the sickies....

Purp dear, hope you feel better soon, I know how it is

Beans

[freshwater-2]

'morning all you great survivors out there.

Darki & Gillie.....I think we are kindred spirits in our values..

Yes the northern beaches sure have changed.  Used to be a laid back area.  How it is anal retentive with all those lovely houses being pulled down and replaced with muti million dollar fortresses once the City Mobbers came across the bridge..

Do you remember the shops right a Freshie beach....all gone now.  I remember Ruthie's hairdresser in a row of timber shops.

The Sunday afternoon concerts at that shell autatorium at Manly beach opposite the ice skating rink?.

All the locals (in our swimmerrs) used to site on one side, and the city mobbers at the other.  We never watched Johnny O'Keefe et al perform...we were too busy watching the city mobbers.

That 1946 bushfires....it was awful.  It was referred to as Black Friday.  I remember laying on the floor to escape the smoke. 

[freshwater-2]

Oh, and I  remember a mob of us sitting in the surfboat being towed by a truck....on our way to a surf carnival.  Can you imagine that being allowed today?

[beanishells]

Morning....dashing in...outlaws arrived last night...details on my thread....

big wave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kengillard]

morning all♥

yep freshy.   I remember those concerts in the Shell at Manly.

We didn't call them City Mobbers....more like 'Westies":-D  think my kids did the same.

Remember Freshwater.....about 7 years ago my son used to live there and we walked to the beach...it looked very peaceful and quiet then.

[darksideofthemoon]

No, me neither gil 😞  didn't like being scrambled by the waves either... not my scene.

Hi ya beani and Dea, lovely to see you both here...

gardened a bit today and now dealing with my back... grrrrrr X-(

[darksideofthemoon]

Who remembers the Sydney Royal Easter Show????

the sample bags for 1/- (10¢) and all the mini samples in the bags?

The sheep and cattle and huge vegetable displays

the rides?

Oh those early days were wonderful...  later it seemed to lose momentum