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...."

[lyndal1838]

It hit 46 here and the air con really struggled.

The southerly hit about 30 minutes ago...sounded like a train going through a tunnel and the tiles on the roof actually rattled....I have NEVER heard that before.

I am living in fear of the neighbour's gum tree coming down....it is huge and very top heavy and had a decided lean over our bedroom.  With this wind behind it I am wondering if we should move out of the bedroom tonight.:O:_|

[purple_haize]

I can remember in 2009 when it was 46deg here in Melbourne, it was dreadful, glad you have the cool change Lyndal, we got the cool change yesterday, but no rain.

Re the gum tree, our neighbours have huge gums, that I always worry about, they bend right over when it is windy.

I think I would be sleeping in a different room tonight.

stay safe:|

[purple_haize]

Beani, since the 2009 Black Saturday fires, the electricity company that serves the hills, cut the power so there is not the full supply coming through. we found this last week when it was hot, the computer was slower than a snail.

Now that it is cool, it is running at the full supply again.

Has something to do with bushfires or the likely hood of a fire.

[kengillard]

morning all

could smell smoke this morning......not surprising...must be lots of fires about that I can't see...the Bribie Is. fire for e.g...would depend which direction the wind is blowing

[darksideofthemoon]

Evening seniors----------just a tip off-----

-Darki had a day off in PJs-lol.................Richo.

So that's how the news spreads :^O

Darki's having another day off in PJs today too 🙂

[kengillard]

didn't like to ask...............how does Richo know?????mmmmmmmmmmmm

[serendipityricho]

Arvo gerries.

Did a Mervyn Perviis through a window Gilly-lol................................Richo.o

[beanishells]

Hi everyone...

🙂

Glad everyone had some coolness coming... we loved the change but still have a measure of humidity. I have the humidifier fan  on the a/C  going today to cool it a bit in here...

Its going to hot up again. But at least it was nice for my sisters baby shower at my place yesterday. Just tried a  nap.... didnt work. Too keyed up  I guess. Too much excitement!

Hope to have the battery back for the beani mobile soon. $160 later....grrrrr.

[kengillard]

morning all

my goodness Richo.....you sure are long sighted!

[purple_haize]

Good morning Seniors:-)

Beani, glad everything went well at the baby shower on saturday!