@FLClover...I'm 63..58 when diagnosed. I think I'm one of the few people over the age of 10 who doesn't have a mobile phone...I hate them with a passion. When I was first diagnosed, my adult daughter gave me her old phone with $20.00 credit on it. After much practice, she felt happier for me having the damn thing. I made one phone call on it, and that was a practice call. A few weeks later, I tried to use it, and found out that I had no credit. I was horrified to find that the money runs out after thirty days and that you have to buy more credit. What absolute rubbish. For that $20.00, I could have phoned some bloke in Outer Mongolia, riding on his yak, and spoken to him for half and hour. I asked my daughter if that meant that when you were, say two days off from your credit expiring, and you had fifteen dollars left, did you then phone every Dick, Tom and Harry that you knew, just to get your money's worth. No thank you...I've managed to live for half a century without one and don't feel the need. As far as the computer goes, I can get onto google and facebook and also this group. If I come across something that needs to be opened or sent, or photos, I have to ask my husband or daughter to help. It may be all straightforward for some, but not for others. Once my husband got a bit short with me about how simple and straightforward it all was. I passed him my knitting pattern and asked him to do the next row. K12, SKPO, yfwd P2, K2tog, yfwd, K12 and so on. I added that there was a glossary which explained it all and that, really, it was quite simple and straightforward. He never castigated me again. Yes, there are Luddites out there, but hey, we matter too.
