"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...."
Hi ya Jilly and welcome indeed... of course you are welcome here... a baby but nevertheless we love to have you with us 🙂
Beanie so good to see you here... another baby, but again most welcome 🙂 but you know that already 😉
Gil and all... had a loooooong day so will catch up later for now
Ni ni all xxxx
Did any of the Sydneysiders go to the El Roco jazz cellar at the Cross? They were tearing down a building for redevelopment some time ago and found the cellar. When it was realised what it was it was restored. I went there about 3 yrs ago to have a squizz and hear a friend playing in the jazz band. It is just the same and so full of memories.
How great that they save El Roco, never went there but do remember hearing of it.
I have been trying to remember the name of the boxer who owned that Wooloomooloo pub, he was a champing light weighter I think, and I know his name so well, but I can't grab it at present 😞
Do you remember the wool store at the Quay?
I haven't been to Sydney for years and years and I expect it has all changed now, but it used to be where I worked when I was 15 and would deliver watches and jewels to jewellers in tiny rooms in the back streets of Sydney where you would go up in tiny wrought iron lifts by winding them up or down.
Bet none of those old buildings are there nown.
