"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...."
I don't qualify for this thread either but I feel very old today 🙂
Darki my mother had a hip replacement a couple of years ago and because she normally reacts to drugs had it under a local so heard it all 😮
Darkie, 1944 here. The reason that we aren't labelled is that we were too individual to be part of a herd. LOL.
Ah ofcourse! I hadn't thought of that Jean 🙂 Thank you, you have made my day... we are individuals every one of us.
Look, if I vanish it is because my modem is playing up merry hell. I got a new one a week ago and it is breaking down every day or so. At present I am on a non-wireless mode with the yellow cord and I feel claustrophobic 😞
Anyway that's what's happening if I don't show up.
Hi kwozie good to see you again, how are you? Glad you are cruising along okay...
It's a bit like the man who jumped of a high rise office block, as he fell people heard him say...
"Well, so far, so good. So far so good" :^O
Oh you qualify donnas if you are feeling old today ((((hugs))))) Gosh you mum is a heroine.. she really is... I am so impressed with her, that is no mean operation.
Hahahhaa jean, yes that's my first home remedy too but don't let cataracts worry you it isn't a difficult operation to go through. It's day surgery and you are home before dinner.
A patch over the eye until you see the doc the next day and then after that so far as I remember it's all over and eyesight is soooo much better.
Noooo don't change docs better the devil you know me thinks.
Hi lejacs good to see you here...
I am amazed at how many of us there are, isn't that great.
Bluepanda you have made a valid point about diet and exercise as we get older. I do go to gym twice a week...
It's for seniors so one works pretty much at one's own pace, although we aren't allowed to slack of and stand around and chat.
It has made a difference to my sense of balance and well being too and along with a sensible diet one can't help but feel well.
