"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'm stuck like that too Gill, and I don't want to be without an animal... am thinking of a retired greyhound when these two have gone... they are lovely natured and real lounge lizards
That should suit me :^O
Well....took Rosie with us to daughters place for lunch today.. She was fine till we pulled up at " '".
Then threw up all over the middle console and down between it and the drivers seat!X-(...could have at least waited till we got out of the car!
Trying to work out how to clean it.....maybe slide the drivers seat right back and out? anyone know if that's possible?
But she had a lovely time with the 3 grandies. Put her in the cat basket on the way home and she was good...even went to sleep.
Just before we got home...has been asleep for the last half hour...exhausted....biggggg day.
:^O oh the joys of a puppy... no idea how to clean it, you could get a car detailer in? Or get the seat out and see if that helps... Richo might have some ideas.
Wolf cub's pup ate a library book the other day... I'm still giggling as it reminded me of when Harry stole and destroyed my new NEW Harry Potter book :_|
He is going to have to find a copy and own up to the library :^O
So glad she's worn out and sleeping... next time put her in a doggy crate for travelling eh?
Gee wizz it's been cold and windy here.
Ah! sssiiiggghhhhh! I have just watched The Mask of Zorro with Tony Banderos, Anthony Hopkins and Katherine Zeta Jones...
Zorro is sooooo thrilling even now and Anthony Hopkins is a pin up of mine... and I really do think Katherine is such a very beautiful woman, so the whole thing was sheer delight 🙂
Sigh 🙂
