on 10-01-2012 06:23 AM
"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...."
on 10-01-2012 03:35 PM
Hi Darkie, nice to participate in one of your threads again, better reason this time though..lol 1947 here
Cruising along nicely with not too many complaints to speak of.
Cheers
on 10-01-2012 03:35 PM
on 10-01-2012 03:36 PM
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.
on 10-01-2012 03:39 PM
Just been told that I have cataracts starting and Doc told me that my usual home remedy for everything ailing me of a half bottle of scotch won't work with this one. I dunno I still reckon that it is worth a try. I may have to start thinking of changing Docs, this one is losing his sense of humour.:^O
on 10-01-2012 03:43 PM
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1946 so I'm in !!
Hi to all the seniors ..*waves
on 10-01-2012 03:55 PM
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.
on 10-01-2012 04:20 PM
What a great thread, thanks for starting it. Darki I've just scraped in and am thankful to say my health is pretty good apart from some bits and pieces.
Purple I've just been diagnosed with stenosis in the spine which is a narrowing somewhere or the other that causes pain sometimes. My doc who never is fond of overmedicating says the right exercise can help enormously, like core strengthening, and I've found some good ones on the internet. Not that I'm saying it's for you , but just me.
I think as you get older the right diet and exercise are more important than ever, I really believe in it. (though right now don't do much of either ;\) What do others think?
Bluepanda, I have Degeneration Spinal Disease, plus curveture of the spine, due to the way I was born, so had problems all my life.
Most days are fine, but some days the pain is bad, I have strong pain killers fore when the pain is bad.
on 10-01-2012 04:41 PM
Well, Darki, I am right up there too.
I am one of the incrediblly lucky ones (through no fault or effort of my own). Never had even a minor health problem, never taken a pill (not even an aspirin), haven't been to a doctor for maybe 25 years, got all my own perfect teeth including wisdoms, average weight, not a twinset and sensible shoe type, whiz around in a two seater convertible with my wee lapdog in the passenger side harness, enjoy the occasional ciggie, laugh a lot.....and have always enjoyed my life, and my friends.
One of my passions is animal rights. My home is in a mini rainforest with a complete eco system including Australian critters. I live in heaven. I cannot ask for any more of life.
The only downside is becoming more and more aware each year of the sadness in the worlld and other people's lives I do find it hard to cope with this.
So, with my record so far.......I expect to be taken by a great white at my local surf spot any day now. LOL
on 10-01-2012 04:46 PM
Oh, and another thing......I have always been a vegetarian.
on 10-01-2012 04:50 PM
Hey freshy will you marry me?
:^O