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...."

[kengillard]

morning all

Well after hours of torture yesterday, finally got our pension unsuspended, starting at 2.30 on Monday...now all I have to do is produce pages of bank statements going back to March 2011!!

Centrelink make it soooooooooooo difficult for us oldies....

Evening Daniel♥

[purple_haize]

Good morning everyone:-)

I to have a watch with a small face, but mine isnt going.

Gill, I havent had much to do with centrelink since they put me on the age pension, but in the past when I have had problems I agree they can be a real pain.

Have a good day all!

[kengillard]

Just remembered....when I was about 5 I used to play outside all the time

made a 'garden' out of dirt, stones and weeds, and charged everyone who was unfortunate enough to visit us, 3d. to 'look' at it....a very early entrepreneur!!! lol

[purple_haize]

I use to be fascinated watching my grandpa shave, with a razor, he used soap and he used to sharpen the razor on a long strip of something, not sure what it was called.

When I was around 7rys. use to play knuckle bones, it was the *in* game at the time.

Hopscotch was very big then too as were skipping ropes. and marbles for the boys.

[grumpy42]

New here but not to life - been around since '42. The item you mentioned was made of leather - a bit over 2 foot six inches long (sorry - I'm still a dinasaur -no metric) and about  three inches wide. Called a razor strop - I sill have one and use a "cut throat" razor. Cheers.

[lyndal1838]

Grumpy, you just beat me to it...my grandfather used to use a cut-throat razor and the strop used to hang behind the bathroom door.

He also had one in the toolshed and my Nana used to sharpen the knives on it.

A great uncle had some sort of flat paddle sort of thing to sharpen his razors...I don't remember that as well as the leather strop though.

[bluepanda555]

And swapcards.  Very big at my school.  Each card had different values.  Blue Boy and Blue Girl were worth something like 10 cards and highly sought after. but once you had them you didn't want to lose them. 

And fiddlesticks, where you had a pile of little sticks like knitting needles and had to prise one out without moving the others.

And did anyone play Charlie Over the Water....  in those days we played outside in the streets they were very quiet.   and you had to run across without being caught by "He"  .   

[purple_haize]

And swapcards.  Very big at my school.  Each card had different values.  Blue Boy and Blue Girl were worth something like 10 cards and highly sought after. but once you had them you didn't want to lose them.

And fiddlesticks, where you had a pile of little sticks like knitting needles and had to prise one out without moving the others.

And did anyone play Charlie Over the Water....  in those days we played outside in the streets they were very quiet.   and you had to run across without being caught by "He"  .

How could I forget swapcards, I had heaps of them and they were verry big at my school as well.

Fiddlesticks to,

I also rember Charlie over the Water.

This thread is great, and the memories are wonderful!

[bluepanda555]

"..Oh I remember Camphor Ice now...my grandmother swore by it but Mum used Vicks VapoRub. I never noticed any difference, or maybe I was just so miserable with my cold that I didn't care....I was never a good patient..Lyndal"

And my dad who suffered from lumbago (I don't think it's called that anymore)  had a big jar of thick grey paste called antiflogestine (sp?) that had to be heated up until steaming, then applied onto strips of rag and onto his back.   It scared the life out of us kids.  Does anyone remember that?

[purple_haize]

Grumpy, you just beat me to it...my grandfather used to use a cut-throat razor and the strop used to hang behind the bathroom door.

He also had one in the toolshed and my Nana used to sharpen the knives on it.

A great uncle had some sort of flat paddle sort of thing to sharpen his razors...I don't remember that as well as the leather strop though.

Thanks for the info re the strop.......

My grandmother use to sharpen all the knives out on the back cement on the ground.