"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...."
Will bump you up in the mornings Darkie-lol.
Too good a thread to let drift away.
Notice you started a new one.
----------------Gilly stay off that ladder--remember what happened
last time.............A long thread started-you
were in hospital for ages-you silly old biddy-lol.
Richo.
Thank you Richo... good on you 🙂
Yes I did start a new thread just for fun, you mean the one abou getting old? I thought it was great.
Yes Gilly you hear him... no more ladders for you... You only have to fall 9 feet and you would be critically injured... that is official ambo talk... straight off to hospital in an ambulance 😞
Well I have dragged the chain recently. I had a door arcitrave begin to fall off so I had the carpenter here today.
Tried to do gardening and still training the dogs not to rush to the fence line... sigh :_|
Then I found a really wonderful firewood man. He delivers and stacks for me... he's a treasure, believe me.
morning people
I've got heaps of memories Richo
Just can't remember them;\
Sigh... is that how it happens Gil? Alzheimers I mean 😞
Well I'm back on the internet .. ergen.. let's hope this time it stays.
Got to say I'm at a loss at the moment. Running out of steam I think.
As Gil says, lots of memories but non coming forward much at the moment.
Oh I know, who else remembers the Royal Navy ships in Sydney Harbour during the war and the fire works being let off from Fort Denison?
Who remembers the trams across the bridge?
What can you remember of the city you lived in as a kid?
I also remember very clearly when the Cahill Expressway didn't exist.
And when Sydney was 'browned out' during the war years.
AND the very first neon sign I saw when the war was over... it was a teddy bear on a bicycle eating an icecream and the wheels went round and his arm moved the icecream up to his mouth and down...
My mother knew Sydney before the Harbour Bridge was built and going back and forth between Sydney and Milson's Point on a ferry.
