"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...."
Hmmmm.... maybe I should explain before I shock you all, that I use strong language sometimes when it is required.
He had been in the Forces for about a year and anything less would have rendered me, in his opinion, exactly as he thought of me... a 'little woman'... ggggrrrrrrrr X-(
Needless to say, I do not use it generally, it is for impact, and it works :^O
Ah berendina, that is so absolutely true, it is a blessing to grow old - and I might add a skill. Not everyone will make it, and that is sad.
We have survived birth and the hazzards of crawling around on floors not pristine with the latest antiseptics.
We have survived kindergarten and all the bugs kids pass on to eachother in the days when inoculations were only for whooping cough, tetanus, and diptheria...
We survived our teens when we were beginning to go out on our own and, a little later going around in cars driven by our peers, who love to play chicken (remember?) - how did we survive that?
Our twenties what with the birth of our children and back then that could be a hazzard.
Life went on into our thirties and forties, and we avoided car accidents, recovered from serious illnesses and managed to keep out of deep water.
As time has gone on, we have had all sorts of things happen to us, loss of loved ones, divorce or separation, the loss of children... the list is endless.
Now we are coming into a time where we are wiser in the ways of health and safety and we certainly have gain a great deal of knowledge and information... AND we have learned to survive life up til now - and that is a skill, not an accident 🙂
Hahaha driving sober and bribing the cop :^O Nothing like having a bit of fun.
Wow gilly golly I have never thought of looking, do hope you can get it into your hot little hand.
It always amazes me that we can now bank on line and all our bills are paid that way.
I recall sitting in the 'Bank Of New South Wales' (now the Commonwealth Bank) waiting for my mother to get the banking done.
All the paper work that had to be filled in... and - AND do you remember the NSW Bank tin money box? It was made to look like a big office building and was gold with blue windows on it.
My mother left me in charge of her gloves one time while she did her banking in Martin Place in Sydney.
Gloves and hats, high heeled shoes and stockings (with straight seams) were always worn to go into town, and I sat there, as good as gold (as she would say) and someone stole her gloves.. I never even saw it happen 😞
Sigh... this thread is dragging out some memories I didn't know I had 🙂
See? I'm losing it already 😞 of course you're right lyndal...
I do remember when someone told me that one day we would all have a plastic card and not carry money any more... That seemed extraordinary to me.
Now that is what we do!
I haven't written a cheque for years... or posted a bill.
Remember when there was no Medicare and no private hospital funds and we had to pay to go into hospital?
I can't even remember what we did to pay when the babies were born, can anyone?
