"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...."
sorry freshwater, but I have to laugh, he was the LONE ranger, not the LOAN ranger... they are the people who want your money ....
I'm having a good laugh too Darki. I wonder if there is something freudian in there. B-) Maybe something to do with the mask.
Yes I expect so :^O
Hey! I can name some things that have improved since we were born...
The Dentist for one, what a relief 🙂
Surgery is better and we now can have knee/hip replacements.
More people are surviving cancer...
Heart and lung transplants
The planes get us around the world faster
Emails are faster than snail mail 😉
My grandmother scoffed when she was a girl because they were going to try to fly a plane from London to Paris... 😮
I remember my grandparents having a party line for their phone and one had to check the other people weren't using the phone before you could ring someone.
My Grandparents with their two daughters were booked on the Lusitania but missed it before the trans Canadian train was running late ... phew!
My mother was born two years before the Titanic sank.
Evening Seniors.
Been missing for a few days----Aust day 4 day
up the scrub mystery trip.
Be good to sleep in a real cot tonight.
Those young blokes set the pace and i cant keep
up with them-lol.
Bluepanda-those prince valiant comics are worth a few dollars!
Richo.
Hohohoho Richo, wondered where you were... not as young as you used to be?
Comes a time when our own beds are best... hope you sleep well tonight.
Yes Batman, Superman, and a whole lot of others... them's wuz the days :^O
