"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...."
Now might be a good time to remind everyone that ALL eBay forums are world wide and public... anyone anywhere can read what you post.
Don't believe all you think 😉
Your IDs keep you safe from people right around the world who might read your words, and yes they can be cut and pasted if someone wanted to send your reply to someone else.. no one can stop that, but still your ID keeps you anonymous.
Just make sure you stay that way.
Wanders in, graps a cuppa and promises to be good 🙂
Hi ya lifechange, I might grab a cuppa too.
Glaucoma! Now that is something I don't want. My mother had it and I am tested for it regularly but so far so good. It's a miserable business.
I have had cataracts removed and that made it possible to drive at night again, which was good.
Yes it the keeping up with things isn't it... I have finally managed to avoid the doctor's rooms for a while, but still go every year for 'flu jabs.. also have had all the other inoculations possible as really I don't want whooping cough or tetnus or any other awful thing.
I have to laugh tho, by the time I get up in the morning, put in my teeth, add my hearing aids and glasses and then, if I'm going to town, my replacement boobs from when I had cancer... I feel more like the million dollar man than a human being :^O
Anyone else had hip or knee replacements?
