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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...."
Hi everyone, big wave from shatzi and I :-x
Hope you are well and happy.
Weather is terrible, many people affected by fires.
Its a terrible summer.
Do any of you remember a similar summer?
I don't really remember it ever being this bad, as it is now.
Perhaps it seems worse because our population is so much more now, and back then whole areas of bush are now new communities and some are in the line of fire.
My memory is not the best but thats how it seems to me.
Hope you are taking care
🙂
Hi lyndal, you following me ha h aha !
Yes that was pretty bad wasnt it.
On a different note... found this and throught I would post it. Hope no one offends easily.
SENIOR CITIZEN TEXTING CODE
LMTO - LAUGHED MY TEETH OUT
ATD - AT THE DOCTOR'S
BFF - BEST FRIEND FELL
BTW - BRING THE WHEELCHAIR
BYOT - BRING YOUR OWN TEETH
FWIW - FORGOT WHERE I WAS
GGPBL - GOTTA GO PACEMAKERS BATTERY LOW
GHA - GOT HEARTBURN AGAIN
IMHAO- IS MY HEARING AID ON
OMMR - ON MY MASSAGE RECLINER
OMSG - OH MY! SORRY, GAS
ROFACGU - ROLLING ON FLOOR AND CAN'T GET UP
TTYL - TALK TO YOU LOUDER
DISIYE - DID I SPIT IN YOUR EYE?
TO BE OLD AND WIDE, YOU MUST FIRST BE YOUNG AND STUPID
I mean wise , not wide LOL
didnt realise it was going to look so big, sorry.
If I could find my glasses I wouldnt need the large fonts.
