"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...."
Like you freshie, I am well prepared. Been through one fire, don't want to do it again 😞
This time people will find me down on the sports oval near the marina...
Haven't had a fire in this area since the 1967 bush fires, just hope it stays that way.
Best thing to do is take your computer so long as all your informatio re insurance etc is on it. That way you can access the information on line too.
How are the curtains going? 🙂 Gotta ask... how's the wrist?
Not fire season down here - yet... I think our wet winter has probably delayed it for this year, but it's a matter of watch out next year when it is all grown thicker and dryer.
Hopefully I will have moved by then. I am somewhere tired of living in bushfire areas...
The last man who molested me got an elbow in his stomach that seriously winded him... Thankfully those who wished to molest me when I was small failed... I had a nasty tongue even back then and they hated me for it... X-(
I was molested when I was about 28 by a guy I couldn't shake off.. bit right through his tongue till my teeth met.. grrrrr
Thank god for that freshie :^O
No, damn it, I get thoroughly fed up with men who think they can rule and abuse.
Little kids have no defence against it, but the older we get the more we have weapons.
I live on my own down here and have had men say to me, "Oh, you are very isolated aren't you, doesn't it worry you?"
Yeah, roight! My answer? "Well if someone can get past the electric fence, two barking dogs and an angry woman with a rifle they are welcome to try"... X-(
I have had all three male neighours come on to my land, two of them abusive and one who seems to think it's okay to put tin around my gum trees to stop possums getting into his place or to 'fix my electric gate' that was clicking.
I 'punished' him for putting the tin around my trees by getting him to paint it green so I couldn't see it :^O
Ofcourse as far as the gate was concerned, he had no idea how to fix it, but stood there with a little bit of grey plastic in his hands fiddling with the gate when I saw him... JAYZUS!
Never a 'may I please?' or 'can I help'... nothing. They have all been given short shift.
I have some lovely men friends I have known for years who would never dream of not letting me know they were coming, but this lot around here.... grrrrrr X-(
Hi ho, such is life :^O
On a new tack... I have just been looking for some DVDs for my son and his daughter to have over Christmas while his wife and her daughter are back in Ireland.
Who can remember 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' with Alec Guiness, or 'Arsenic and Old Lace' with Cary Grant?
I have found both of them and ordered them as the cub loves old b&w films... 🙂
16 yo granddaughter is into sci fi and horror, but has probably seen all the new ones, so have found 'Children of the Corn' anyone remember that?
