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...."

[darksideofthemoon]

Thank you so much for that Jean, you have made me feel a lot better, and you are right of course.

I don't know why they distressed me, mabye they are big and yellow or maybe it is underlining that I will be leaving here...

Yes, the last I think.  I love it here but moving has become necessary and I don't yet know where I will end up.. so I feel I am walking a plant with a deep sea underneath 😞

[freshwater-2]

Hi Darki.  I would find the signs a bit  distressing too.....because I tend to be a private person..  However, I would be immediately unstressed if they led to a sale.

[purple_haize]

Darki, I understand what you mean, but having a sign is a good thing. When I sold up yrs ago, I didnt want a sign either, but it was through someone seeing the sign and told a friend about it, that my house sold.

So, look at it along those lines.

I hope you get a buyer soon.

[kengillard]

The thought of moving (one day) distresses me no end.......all those years of collecting and hoarding.....even getting the house painted is a pain.....so many bits and pieces about.

I've just found out that the agency who provides my cleaner also provides helpers to pack stuff away......for $$ of course, but it'll be worth it.

Unfortunately the fires may set your house sale back a bit...but if it's in an area with NO fires, that could be a plus?

[darksideofthemoon]

Would you believe gil, that I have sudden viewers yesterday who have a house in the bushfire area and don't yet know if it's still standing, coming to look to buy down here?

Yes we could get a fire, but my house would probably survive it.  It has been built with bushfires in mind with no eaves along the back and a plain stone wall confronting the bush.

I have a huge fire break between the bush and me and only a few months ago I did get my men to clear the bush and trees back on the other side of the boundary fence.

Yesterday my mower man did a  'cut' of the dead grass just to take the top off it, not that it was more than about 3 inches high...  he has whippersnipped around all the trees, non too near the house.

Nevertheless, I will be leaving if I see smoke on the horizon 🙂

[kengillard]

I think you'd be ok ...

Guess what...........after 18  days I've FINALLY got my $$ transferred into my a/c!!  What a bells up!

[darksideofthemoon]

YAAAYYYYYY :^O  WAY TO GO GIL 🙂

[purple_haize]

I am sure your place would survive a bush fire, Darki.

CFA here, have 2 alarms one for non emergency things that rings for 90 seconds and one for fire/flood........not that we have a flood here in the hills, the fire danger siren goes for 5 minutes, if that goes off and I see smoke, I will be off.

No good hanging around up here in the hills when that siren goes off, as the roads are narrow, in some parts only room for 1 car, at a time.

In the 2009 fires the roads were clogged, so I would go early.

[purple_haize]

I am in the wars, having trouble with the sciatic nerve in left leg, it is so painful, saw the dr. yesterday and she has me on a drug similar to morphine for the pain, plus an anti inflammatory drug. Have to go back on thursday.

Glad your $$ came through finally, Gill

[darksideofthemoon]

Good thinking purple... I wish we had an alarm.. wouldn't that be a help... as it is I watch the skies and the Tas Fire Service site.

We have winds and what looks like heavy clouds coming... Oh it would be good if we get rain. 🙂