The Seniors Thread :-)

[darksideofthemoon]

"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...."

[purple_haize]

Thankyou, Zaidee........you are the best:-x

[grandmoon]

Afternoon all

I have been sitting here watching the wind blow the leaves everywhere.

[purple_haize]

Hi all.........freezing cold here today, 8deg. in the hills, havent ventured out, doing scrapbooking instead......

I watched the leaves yesterday when it was very windy, no wind today thankgoodness.

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries--just clocking in.

Cold everywhere atm.

Spent the working day in Moe--lot of earthquake

damage in the town and hills to the north and south.

--remember------breath in-breath out!

Take care ...............Richo.

[grandmoon]

Hello all

I have given in and started to wear my thermal underwear today.

[purple_haize]

Hello everyone.

I was only thinking this morning, that I should be wearing mine, will have to dig them out this weekend.

At least the rain has stopped for now & there is some sun, but it is only 9 deg here in the hills.

Richo.......did you have any damage from the earth quake?

[serendipityricho]

Evening gerries.

No damage here PH--but lots in the Moe area.

The bigest drama facing Victorians is electricity.

Not much mention in the news and not related

to the earthquake is the river flowing into the open cut

coal mine at Yallourn.

Know folks in that trade and supply maybe a

problem in the near future.....................Richo.

[purple_haize]

Thanks for letting us know, Richo.

I did see online something about flooding in the open cut coal mine.       Not good.

[serendipityricho]

PH--a few minutes after i posted -the ABC news

told a  story as it is handed to them by the

power companies.

 but-----(from the coal face lol)...........different story.

Time will tell..............................Richo.

[purple_haize]

okay, thanks Richo........believe you before I would believe the power companies.