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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...."
Hello all I hope you are all well and happy.
I know I am a slacko
I can't remember if I told you but my brother has come back home to live and I moved to a larger place.
So I have been a bit busy.
My brother is intellectually handicapped and 69 years old. We have the odd occassional 'moment' :_|X-(:^O
I will post Grahamisms from time to time so you can have a little giggle too
He is interested in model trains, hence the move to a larger space.
We who love him dearly refer to him sometimes as Graham Copperfield because for a man who can't run skip hop or jump he can disappear pretty fast if you blink whilst out shopping:^O
Part of Graham's condition is that he talks incessantly. Long drives with nowhere to run are an experience I can tell you. I had a 3 hr drive with him today, Thank goodness my "off" switch works ok.
He used to live at home with me, however when I became really ill he had to go into a hostel He is a bit of a square peg and people find him difficult. Anyway I am well enough to look after him now, He lost a few social skills whilst at the hostel so he is in training ]:)
My sweet lovely children tell people that I have a water spray bottle :^O
A couple of posters have met him and he remembers them and asks about them sometimes
Well that's it from me
Oh no it isn't
Channy's little man has osteo genesis imperfecta. I think I did mention that, Anyway he is walking, nay running. His bones are okish, he has a connective (ligaments etc) problem and blue schlera, which of course is one of the early signs of the condition. Unfortunately Channy and I were treated as idiots trying to find fault, rather than check him out early. He is a staunch little man so he will do fine.
I think that's it for now
