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...."

[darksideofthemoon]

Ups-a-daisy :^O

[purple_haize]

Morning Gerries:-)

I havent been in for a few days, my back is driving me insane, cant sit or stand for long, I have pain killers, but they make me feel like a zombie, so dont like taking them much.

Moving Darki?

Hope everyone has a great day

[grandmoon]

Morning all

Its a lovely day here the sun is out and the is a breeze just perfect for the washing.  I have put 4 loads of washing on the line.  Am off to do some weeding.

[kengillard]

morning gerries♥

Well that's 2 storms in 2 days.....not much rain, but better than nothing.

It's amazing how fast the lawn has greened up......and grown about an inch!

[purple_haize]

Morning gerries,

it doesnt take long for the grass to grow after rain, we have had plenty of rain here.

Elect. company working on the wires today, so will be turning the power off soon. Sunny day here so will be out in the garden with OH.

[purple_haize]

Pensions go up this month, wonder how much we will get???

[beanishells]

HI everyone...

I think mckool and I are getting $4 each or something..cant remember...the amount was not good enough to remembe...

Just saying Hi. I am so tired. Dad is in hosp now...heart attack...all in my thread. He is okay though.

Val, your packet was posted Monday...:)

have a good day everyone

🙂

[darksideofthemoon]

Do they purple?  How nice!  Will they cover the cost of food since the carbon tax started?  hahahahaa!

[darksideofthemoon]

Mexican Beani would you please tell your parents to behave themselves???

Tch Tch!  What are we going to do with them?

Do hope your Dad recovers quickly 🙂  xxxx

[beanishells]

Oh Darkie..about to go on my thread and tell the latest... Dad in hosp and its all happening...sigh

Hope everyone had a good day, it was beautiful here

🙂