[lit-ideas] Re: Senior Citizenship
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 01:46:29 -0800
The psych community here (such as it is) also divides seniors into two
groups: there's the "young-old" (60-ish to 80) and "old-old" (generally over
80).
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On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:26 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> I, too, am glad it all went well. It might amuse you to know that here in
> Japan we are now, for purposes of national health insurance, officially
> divided into *zenkikoureisha* (early period elderly, 65-74) and
> *koukikoureisha
> *(later period elderly,75+).
>
> John
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Judith Evans <
> judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> I would have hated that monitor! The bleeping noise is quite bad
>> enough...
>>
>> Glad it went well, Mike
>>
>> Judy Evans, Cardiff
>>
>> --- On *Mon, 24/1/11, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [lit-ideas] Senior Citizenship
>> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Monday, 24 January, 2011, 6:06
>>
>>
>> Two weeks ago I was officially confirmed as a Senior Citizen. I had one
>> of my coronary veins rotorootered and a stent implanted. It may or may not
>> come as a surprise that I am a hater of hospitals and all things requiring
>> me to relinquish any control over my precious body. Nevertheless, I did.
>> It was a thoroughly demeaning and unpleasant experience except for one
>> procedure. An intern or technician wheeled a TV type monitor into my room.
>> He gelled up a sonagram type probe and started rubbing it on my chest. It
>> was a Doppler Sonograph machine. I had a good view of the screen. It was
>> fascinating. I could see inside my heart, watch it pulse, watch the valves
>> open and close and sometimes the tech would hit a button and with the
>> opening of a valve there would be a burst of colors like fireworks: red,
>> blue, splotches of yellow, specks of orange -- amazing. Everything was in
>> constant motion. I already knew that -- intellectually, I did. But here it
>> was in fact. It didn't seem at all the set and orderly place I had
>> imagined. More like a water filled balloon -- all in wave motion. It
>> struck me then that all my insides were a beehive of motion, more lively
>> than my outside. And not just my heart -- all the surrounding tissues, and
>> organs, even the bones in their marrow were dancing around all the time.
>> There's no such thing as solid flesh, much less "too, too solid
>> flesh".Everything that is is in motion all the time. I knew that. Of
>> course I did. Even rocks. Had we the eyes we would see them constantly
>> spitting out muons and pions and grabbing hold of hadrons, sucking in
>> electromagnetic radiation, flinging whole molecules riotously to the wind.
>> Yes, not a minute's rest. Even in death we are a whirlwind of motion for
>> years and years and years until the very last sub atomic particle zips away.
>>
>>
>> Mike Geary
>> moving around merrily n Memphis
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> John McCreery
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