Surviving the Senior Citizen Years

  I know if you have health and mobility problems, it is easy to feel like you should give up. Quality of life, or lack thereof, can be a sore spot for all of us. I am doing everything I can to improve my life. Healthy eating You are eating right, which is so important. But when you do eat all the right things, you might feel like you are missing out. I have a problem with snacks. I should not eat them, but putting them down is hard, so I’ll keep trying to cut back. What else can I do? Getting regular checkups is so important. Nobody likes going to the doctor. Especially if you have an ailment that bothers you. Taking another medication isn’t what you want either. You could always get another opinion, but they may tell you the same thing. Take the medication! Yearly physicals are essential as well. Bloodwork can show the doctor and you where you stand health-wise. Blood work can sometimes detect something early, and that is important. Exercise I need to walk more, t...

  Grieving personal loss In one’s life, there is always personal loss, like a grandparent or an older relative who succumbed to cancer or heart disease. And it's sad, but you still had friends and probably your parents. But when you get older, the loss seems to be frequent, and the loss of folks that you are closest to. Since my parents were older than most of my friend's parents, I seemed to spend more than my share of time in funeral homes. All my grandparents were deceased by the time I was thirteen, and I had lost many aunts and uncles from my mother’s family. I almost grew numb at all the funerals we attended. But I was a kid, young, and I knew that time somehow stood still when you were younger. Of course, it didn’t, but it seemed that way. As I moved on in my life and had a family of my own, death was sad but not devastating. My wife moved on after her father died of cancer at a young age. Then, her grandmother passed away. The emotional impact of loss gave my wife...