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). ck 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 >> >> >> > > > -- > John McCreery > The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN > Tel. +81-45-314-9324 > jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.wordworks.jp/ >