"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...."
Some great oldies here Purple-ranging from super fit posters like
Freshwater-who looks after herself and the real gerries
-battle worn -like Darki,Zaidee --Me and others.
Gilly is beyond hope-lol.
Just a few Richoisms.
You cant keep all your rellies happy at the same time.
You cant make strawberry jam from dogs droppings.
Where theres a will ---------theres a relative.........Richo.
HEY!!! Wot's this battle worn stuff? I''m not that, I'm just sore and p..sed orf :^O but still can replant a small tree in the rain because friends drove over it and it needed a new home... It has one :^O
Good Morning all from a very cold National Capital it is now a minus 4.
I am sitting here in my new warm dressing gown I got from my son and DIL.
Hi Moon 🙂 I don't think a lot of people are aware that most times it is colder in some parts of NSW and Canberra than it is down here south of Hobart.
We can drop to -2˚ but it is rare to drop below that.... in NSW just west of Windsor we could drop to -6˚ and get a black frost that would leave icicles from gutters to ground.
It's just that winter lasts longer down here and it gets darker earlier and lightens later than further north.
We have had so much rain here lately and wind.. but I'm not complaining as I haven't had to go outside to garden and that has been a nice change 🙂
See ya all later xx
