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"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...."
6 ½ Grandies Richo, that's great. I have 3 but haven't seen any of them for years.
My two grandsons are somewhere in Canberra but my estranged daughter won't encourage contact. My granddaughter, now 16 is due to move down here with her father and his new wife and her daughter - my granddaughter by proxy or sumptin as she doesn't have any grandies at all, they are all dead, I count myself lucky, but I feel sorry for them that they missed out on knowing her.
Oh there's always another war Gil, let's face it, the one in Iran is the Middle East and it's been going for ages and ages.
Poor puppies freshwater, you will be well out of favour :^O
and yes, grandmoon I have to agree with that 'when you are old'... especially the back bit.
We had a start of 0˚ this morning and finally made it up to 6˚ but it was sunny most of the time and very still so not difficult to go out into.
Poor Gil, no water no showers... I hate it when that happens. Or as in my case I run out of gas for hot water. I have gas tanks and they always run out when I have just put shampoo on my hair.
Well I know tomorrow is Tuesday - isn't it? I have to keep remembering because I have a lunch date on Thursday and mustn't miss it.
Will catch up soon again. Ni ni all xxx
Hello Gily, where is everyone? no one seems to post anymore, hello to everyone and goodnight to all, take care be safe and stay strong :-x
Not many of us here love, just a few old stayers and then not all the time...
I have had some very long busy days and am feeling it I have to say.
Did have a lovely day today having lunch with a friend of my own age group so we could compare notes and each understand the other :^O
I now have the new reverse cycle heater installed in the lounge and this is great as it is going to save me so much money in electricity.
Hi Gil and Richo and all others....
My back giving me jip and I must go and walk again.
Hope I catch you all tomorra
Ni ni xxxx
I know what I wanted to say. The young man who came to install the recycle heating lost a close friend early this morning. He was pretty upset, but wanted to be here to do the installation.
What has really annoyed me (yet again) is his friend, and best man at his wedding had already beaten a cancer of the glands under and near his ear with chemo and radiotherapy and when a lump appeared on the other side of his face he went to see his doctor as he was worred (needless to say)
Well the doctor said it was 'nothing to worry about as the cancer would not jump from one side of his face to the other'
He returned a couple of months later still worred and was told the same thing.
I suppose the doctor thought 'Uh oh, he is hung up on cancer and stil fearful'
Sigh :_| Yet another damn fool of a doctor.
It was cancer and because of the delay in treatment it killed the fellow X-(
Really I have heard of this so bluddy often I have to wonder who is going to take the AMA to task about threatening doctors with heavy fines (at the very least) for such carelessness.
What is so wrong with sending someone for a test if they are worried?
Jayzus! X-(
Thanks for being here so I could dump my anger xxxxx
