"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...."
Hi jackass, same here and it made so much difference to my sight. I had both eyes done at once and really, it was a very easy procedure.
I think we are all hugging the fire at present, but then isn't winter a great time to do nothing with an excuse :^O
Clever gill getting the snipe 🙂
Things do change purple, and I bet the swallow has too. Try not to jump fences before you get to them even tho it's hard not to.
One of the things I have learned is that, no matter how much we dread things when we are not in front of them, it is much easier when we have arrived at the place and have gone into the right gear to cope.
We get into the atmosphere of it all and can get on with it. It's much harder when we are at home dreading it 😞
Once this is over and you know what is going on you will feel much better about it all and, hopefully, they find nothing for you to worry about 🙂
Hello moon - there you are 🙂 we were all worried you'd lost your way home :^O
What a lovely time being able to play great grandmother. I hope that happens to me one day... it's a long way off yet I think as my granddaughter is only 16 and she has plans to join the navy.
We will wait and see.
LIke you I am hanging in to the warmth of the lounge and working on Ancestry, which is fascinating for me. I did manage half an hour outside doing a bit of weed pulling, but it's really too cold and wet to take it seriously at present.
At the moment the sun is shining, but there are really dark clouds coming up and the wind is blowing, so I don't feel guilty being inside at all 🙂
Hi ya Richo and jack-ass, it's great to have two men here with us, I was beginning to think men were dropping off their twigs earlier than women and that was why they were thin in the trees (not on the ground :^O)
