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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...."
Darki, with a bit of luck you will have a new address by then. Don't forget to let your son know.
Beanie, what is MY dog doing in YOUR yard? I had to check to make sure he was still in the house. :^O
Actually I have two which are dead ringers for Shatzi.
Really? I have seen a dog in town who is a male but looks exactly like shatzi. Amazing isnt it?
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Just a fly-by hello...am only on pc because I had to list some stuff but feet are swelling so back to bed to read a book and elevate the tootsies.
Hope you are having a good day, at least its the weekend coming up. though I will be busy again.
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Why isnt there a waving icon???
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Oh dear terra... seems we have run out of memories or we all have alzheimers disease and have forgotten.
I did remember something the other day, but has since forgotten it - see? A Senior's Moment 😞
Here's one for the oldies... how many of you had mothers who taught you to knit, crochet, sew and cook?
These skills are going by the boards now and there are less and less women who know how to do these things... cooking yes, up to a point and sometimes the old roast beef dinners with roast potatoes and pumpkin, two greens, and Yorkshire Pudding with gravy appear on the tables but rarely now.
When my granddaughters arrive one of them is keen to learn to knit and sew. Her mother doesn't know how, so she has signled me out as the 'Nan who can teach her' 🙂
Thankfully my own mother was well into making sure I could do these things and over the years they have brought me a lot of pleasure and relaxation.
Evening gerries-im still here.
Didnt learn any sewing stuff-but at a young age
had a long sickness.
Older bro put 4 nails on the end of a cotton reel.
Not sure what it was called.
The knitted wool came out the bottom-in a tube shape.
took ages to make enough for a thing for old mum
to stand her teapot on.
PS---hope my mates dont read this thread -would
never live it down.lol....................Richo.
French knitting Richo and good on ya old mum for showing you how and that you finished it 🙂
Ow! go-on Richo, lotsa guys do knitting and sewing and all sorts of stuff nowadays.. I knew a bloke who was perfectly happy to take out his tapestry if he has some spare time on his hands.
He was teacher and very happily married, no funny stuff and boy, did he do wonderful tapestry.
My BIL does tapestry...he loves wild animals so thats what he usually does. It takes him ages. He does it to calm himself down...has CFS like me and your brain races on and on....doing some kind of stitching can be calming. I do it to the telly, crocheting my second blanket for the neices. My BIL is not gay either...very happily married to my sister who he adores. Its mutual 🙂
