"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 love seafood, so will make sure I get enough for you two also :^O
They can 'probe' all they like freshwater, no US anything is getting near me and that's a fact X-(
Oh purple, what gill said - more waiting, gosh it's never ending isn't it.
I do hope whatever he saw is nothing to be concerned about and it would have been kind of him to have said nothing at all rather than worry you.
Grrrrr doctors...
Had a lovely lunch and ate far to much. Tasmanian scallops for three - that's you, gil and me... then I had a creme brulee with icecream and toffee...It's been years since I had icecream, I had forgotten how nice it was.
And with that two small glasses of champagne... I do mean small but very nice
Did the dog food shopping and was thankful to get home. We have a deluge drop down on my way home. It got dark and the clouds were coming down the vallies with sweeping rain which overtook us before I got home.
Still now safe and warm 🙂
yes Darki, more waiting, I am really over drs. I wish I hadnt asked anything about it, they usually dont tell you anything.
Once before I asked after an ultrasound on my pelvis, and the technician said *I cant tell you, but you will be glad you came*, turns out I had a huge cyst on my ovary, that was twisted.
I am seeing my GP on monday will tell her what he said.
What a lovely reply from that technician... good on him/her 🙂
I know what you mean about being over doctors. Between my dear friend who was slowly dying from a Golden Staph infection doctors managed to insert along with an injection into her spine when she was having a knee operation and me getting cancer during her long ten years of doctors and hospitals I really did get totally over the whole medical thing.
The tests, the waiting, the results that required more waiting, and more tests, or operations or medications.. god! I got so sick of it all.
Now I see my doctor once a year unless something crops up, which is very rare and that's that. I have all the inoculations known to man ... well, nearly all... flu, polio, tetnus, pneumonic wotnot (not plague) measles... Oh! and whooping cough... I'll be damned if I am going to be caught out ill with any of the above.
Living on my own I give it all a lot of thought but between my doctor and me I think we have it sewn up - well for the moment anyway. 🙂
Mind you, two knee replacements added to the list of waiting and appointments and operations, but by golly, I'm so glad I had them done, it made all the difference to my quality of life.
