"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...."
Morning all 🙂 I'm running out of things to say :^O
Hi richo 🙂
I see trbag is back into the fray... how many times in our lifetime have we all seen 'The End Of The World Is Nigh'?
I wonder if it is a deep down desire for it all to end? Or are they needing drama in their lives?
Just an idle thought to give us a boost 🙂
I wonder if he still feels Obama is the antichrist?
Oh I am sure he does Gil, another mythical creature .. Hahaha poor Obama.
Hi all, kengillard, I also have just recently been told that I have to have cataract surgery. I was perfectly OK with the idea until I went to have the first visit to the specialist. He scared the living daylights out of me with the list of everything that can go wrong to the point where I have not lodged the form with the hospital. I honestly don't know what to do.
Oh bloomin' doctors Jean... all I can say is if he has to warn you about all the things that can go wrong, he is covering his own back side.... it is a simple operation where they put a small cut into the side of the pupil, remove the cataract fuzzy lens and replace it with a new one so you can see better than you have for ages.
I had both mine done at the same time and I couldn't be happier that I did.
Go find another doctor who doesn't feel he has to scare the living daylights out of you and have it done, you won't regret it 🙂
