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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...."
Nuh jackass, after 2,000 years and at your age I reckon you are safe - well I hope so we don't want no stars in the sky because you have been playing ducks and drakes :^O
Gilli how I hope you will make it down this way some time soon... I can always find a place for you, I promise. 🙂
Actually there is also room in the 'extended' lounge where there is a bed already and if she takes that one I will put in another, so you'll be find 🙂 xxxx
I have come down with the most rotten cough and cold. It is ten years since I had one and that one carried off my dear friend B, who was terminally ill... now I have this monster and I am p....d orf I can tell you X-(
Darki take care...just read you are ill 😞 ..last time I had a cough I couldnt get rid of, it was a blood clot...so the alarm bells are ringing....
have you been to your doc yet??? There are such nasties this winter/spring... better get it checked out my friend. :-x
Darki take care...just read you are ill 😞 ..last time I had a cough I couldnt get rid of, it was a blood clot...so the alarm bells are ringing....
have you been to your doc yet??? There are such nasties this winter/spring... better get it checked out my friend. :-x
Don't worry my beani boo, I'm fine and no, I know about blood clots and I don't have one. Most of it is nerves and stress with finding a house I want to buy and having to sell this one first.
That sounds silly but I think you would understand.
If it settles on my chest and I get a secondary infection I will be off to the doctor in a flash, but it is much better today and I think it will pass.
🙂
hello all♥
do hope you're feeling better darki.....take it easy...let your body heal...good excuse to do absolutely nothing!:-x
I am a past artist at doing nuffin' gil, and that is what I am doing.
I had someone come through this morning for a viewing and so I took myself and the dogs off in the car, parked them in a car park near a restaurant and went and had lunch.
Then came home again, got into my jarmies and am now back in front of the TV :^O
Oh and, the viewer is bringing his wife at 2pm on Saturday, so we will see.
