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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...."
I want to tell you something funny Darki. When my daughter got married my wedding gift to the bride and groom was a one month's trip to anywhere in the world for their honeymoon...all expenses paid.
Anywhere in the world. I thought she was going to choose the USA where she was born, or multi countries in Europe.
They talked about it and they both decided they wanted to go to TASMANIA....they had never been there.. They had the most wonderful time you can imagine.....loved it. But....go figure!
Oh freshy what a wonderful wedding present, but you have me laughing... really? After all those choices Tasmania?
It is beautiful, I have to agree but you can't ever trush the young to spend up big when you give them the chance can you :^O That is so funny.
Well, after a lot of thought I am going to start a new cancer thread. I have several people who have asked me to and I feel that for their sake it will be worth giving it a go.
Would love any support you can give the thread 🙂
The end of a long day. Hoping the Cancer thread will be left alone to flourish.
Did you all have a good day? It was cold, wet and windy down here.
HI everyone...
Just coming in to say good night, I am off to beddie bye...yes I know its early but its good for me 🙂
Have a good evening 🙂
That wasnt nice to say about Grandmoon, I dont think she has got to that stage yet, well I hope notB-)
:^O Well I hope she hasn't forgotten where she lives, and I hope she's alright...
Well the C thread seems to be doing well and that's something 🙂
