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...."

[jvharrison]

Remember the price of tellies when they first came out through the roof now they are such a reasonable price:)

[kengillard]

like everything jv.....they all drop in price if you wait long enough lol

[kengillard]

Hurry up and come back OP...xx

[jvharrison]

Lol thats true keni

I think that the OP has problems again with the comp/modem hopefully she will be back in fine fettle super soon:)

[kwozie1]

I remember bath night Sunday, eeewk cant imagine only bathing once a week, my young brother was first in, then my older sister and I together then Mum and Dad, yuck makes me shudder now when I think of it.

My sister and I used to go to Sunday school just to get out of doing the vegies for roast lunch, we had a great garden up the back and I loved digging the spuds, picking the peas and corn, I would love a vegie garden now, I miss it.

We had bantums and got lots of little eggs daily

[kengillard]

We didn't have hot water, only a 'chip heater', which was a wood fired water heater....I remember I used to bring a large bucket of wood chips into the bathroom and continue to feed the fire and then run MORE hot water into the bath as it cooled down...could be there for an hour!   lol till I went all wrinkley.

[jvharrison]

Lol Keni can remember the old chip heater and you would gather the chips from the timber that had been split to feed the fireplaces......can remember when a little older having to bring in all the timber for the fires as well......living room had 2 fireplaces:)

[kengillard]

I've had open fireplaces since I was born....except for the last 8 years...I do miss them..

[jvharrison]

You got that right Keni just a marvellous place to gather around on a wet or dreary day read a book have a coffee or a nice sleep........a lot of people say they are a lot of work but personally i find them to be the centre of the family home

Gorgeous rain down here this arvo:)

[freshwater-2]

I remember bath night Sunday, eeewk cant imagine only bathing once a week,

However, they did cloth wash thoroughly all over every day...and were always clean.  No deodorants, but they used talcum powder.

New subject.  I remember when the fisherman used  handnets on the northern beaches.  Any kid that helped them pull in the nets to the beach got as much fresh fish as they could carry to take home.