"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...."
New here but not to life - been around since '42. The item you mentioned was made of leather - a bit over 2 foot six inches long (sorry - I'm still a dinasaur -no metric) and about three inches wide. Called a razor strop - I sill have one and use a "cut throat" razor. Cheers.
Hey grumpy welcome here 🙂 and yes, you must be a dinosaur still using a strop and cut throat razor... top marks to you. That's a skill never to be rejected 🙂
Sigh 😞 live and learn, now isn't that just the way it has always been.. just when you think you might have this life thing by the tail it turns around and bites you again...
Knuckle bones = Jacks and hoola hoops.. yep hop scotch... skipping ropes... bobby sox.
My gawd! antiflogestine... had forgotten about that and pink wool... that piece of pink fleecy stuff that would heat up if you made it damp. Especially for chests.
Oh Gil how sad and yes I can understand the man being scared I think Jamaica has some very poisonous snake varieties.
Oh yes beach. the carcasses in the window were a bit of a turn off and yes I remember the peanut butter jars...
Does anyone remember being in a big store and when you bought something the money went into a container then a handle would be pulled and the container would fly up the wires to an office overlooking the shop where they would take the money out and send down the change?
There were wires all over the store and it used to mesmerize me just watching those containers rushing up and down.
Oh dear JV, well I am sad to hear it, but this year does not bode well I think for a lot of things... including modems X-(
Isn't it great coming in here and being reminded of yet more of our lost youth 🙂
Have a good evening everyone.
Yes I remember them JV... been a long time ago and not my mum, but yes I can recall someone wearing one.
Good morning all 🙂
Who among us has had knee or hip replacements and how did you go with them?
I'm sure there will be others here facing these things at some point and I see no reason not to discuss this problem if you like... after all replacements for joints is definitely an older person's experience.
I've had two knee replacements and really cannot recommend them highly enough, they have proved to be absolutely wonderful. I was barely able to get around Coles because of pain before I had them but now I never even think about them.
I did meet a man one day who was struggling to get into his car - I had to wait as I was parked next to him and couldn't get into my car until he had managed to close his door... he told me he had knee problems and I said 'why not knee replacements'
"OMG!" he said "Never, not ever... they cause too much pain and distress."
Well that gob smacked me so I just smiled and waited for him to drive away... hmmmm 😞
