2 years ago on my 70th birthday I got a kidney stone which, eventually with hospital visit and medication, passed. Last year on my birthday I was hit by a car on my bike which resulted in cracked ribs and bruises and bumps and...PMR. So this year on my birthday I decided not to leave the house so NOTHING happened to me. But the next day I drove 8 hours to visit family and that afternoon joined in a volleyball game (I know, I know) and tripped over the boundary tape and went running ass over tea kettle and crashed onto the cement twisting my ankle and scraping my hand, elbow and landing on my shoulder. NOTHING BROKE!!! now I am quite achy and sore still after nearly a week.. but I am FINE and.. and here is the point!!! I have osteoporosis. and NOTHING broke!!! thank you tap dancing, walking, Calcium and Vit K2. !! and all of you for good advice for the bones.
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I am so pleased that you are still in one piece yogabonnie xx
Thanks!!!
Thank goodness you didn't break anything! And it sounds like by not going out on your birthday you were just delaying the inevitable lol. Good for you for even attempting to play volleyball!
we would have won!! alas. the game ended with my fall!
Can't really imagine now how you can avoid the albatross of your birthday... Ouch!!!
haha! love it!
The luck of a tumble! Yogabonnie! Sore but worth it ! Been there a few times in working life too! 8 hours driving! Stunning! Well done.
and drove home the next day! but was okay it's always 2 days later that it gets you!! I was SO HAPPY to be alive!
Always a good feeling.
Sounds like the birthday-accident-dude (for lack of a better description) wasn't letting you off the hook. So glad to hear nothing broke!
And HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!!!
thank you!!
Birthdays are OK from now on - as the saying goes “everything happens in threes”.😀
OH I like that!!!
That's true! I had three people die on my birthday. And then no more!
What - people or birthdays...
And thanks for reminding me that I was trying to reduce too fast. 4 was horrible. Went back up to 5 and I'm functioning again. Good thing as I have an Australian friend coming to visit me for 3 weeks! Couldn't even start the cleaning on 4 mgs. Today it is almost done and she arrives tomorrow. Staying at 5 for a bit. Thanks for the "gentle" reminder.....
awful! but glad that is over!
You are a glass half full girl!
haha. I am ! pretty much.
At least there’s nothing broken , but what an odd coincidence! Birthdays must be banned from now on & you must remain forever 72 🥂
Is that a pair of pants there Mrs N ! Must catch up on on this stuff!!
Really - though I confess I did wonder at first! No - two glasses of bubbly being chinked together!!!!
Beyond me! There you go! Different perceptions always!
See - you obviously need to drink more bubbly!
🍻 loaf of bread? cake? snowcovered house?
Luddite that I am H. I think emoticons & emoji are! .... Spherical & Round in plural! Give me a break though having had a secondary education!
I liked the original emoticons or whatever they are before there was a major "upgrade". Now I find they really are indecipherable unless enlarged!
Would agree with that. Over complicated it becomes instead of the bleeding obvious! More bells & whistles are the future it seems!
Sigh. Why did we ever think humans were the crown of creation?
I have yet to meet an upgrade I thought was a positive. Mind you - since I don't use a smartphone I am rather restricted anyway...
Same with the keyless car upgrade! The cars are being nicked right from your driveway. What was wrong with a key ? What's wrong with a knob to twiddle on a radio rather than preset volumes that are between the one wanted! (bedside radio too quiet or too loud!) Case rested. I'm going to feed the water fowl.
At least that's productive!
Beautiful it was T. Once spotted. Paratrooping Mallards, water running/skimming Coots & shy Moorhens. Only 1 Canada Geese joined the party! The main mob were up on the hill or on the other side of the park eating grass. Must be 80 to 100 of them in total. Make quite a mess but it keeps the grass growing!
We don't even have a mobile let alone a smartphone. Although it might make things easier while we are doing the renos. There must be someone here who doesn't require a person to sign a three year lease for a phone along with a ridiculous monthly bill....
You must have pay-as-you-go available - or whatever they call it these days. I have a VERY cheap plain phone and load it once a year with 5 euros of credit to keep the number alive (different countries have different rules)- which I rarely get through! People go to the US and buy a cheap phone like that to use on holiday I gather. Canada must have something like it.
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That's what I do when I go to the UK, although I didn't last time because there's no longer a phone store at St Pancras Station which is how we entered last time. Used my tiny tablet to email instead, although the internet connection on the train was spotty and only free for a few minutes. It's really quite astonishing what we can do these days. When I was about eleven I was sent off to summer camp by train instead of being driven as usual with strict instructions to phone home as soon as I was safely at the camp. It was an old phone where you dialed the operator and asked to place a collect call. As they required my name I had to spell it for the the operator. Polish name. The camp leader with me had to leave the room she was laughing so hard as I tried to get the operator to understand the letters I was telling her, because of course they would seem like gibberish if you'd never encountered a name like that! Now you can fiddle with a tiny device and connect with nearly everyone in the whole wide world - provided there's internet or cellphone coverage where you are.
I don't seem to have them on my lap top, not that I've looked..... They are on my new phone bought for my birthday but never think to use them! I can manually do a smile and frown!
You do it with language T. It's becoming a lost art of communication!
I think they are useful as a replacement for body language which can alter the way words are interpreted.
Yes agree that's how it's going. But it's bollocks in real world! Lot's of bollocks about body language too! Finding your own way through always I feel! Just the way I see it now myself about many things.
It is interesting, though. I know myself I have to be careful how I write things in emails because maybe I'm too abrupt, or what I say can be misinterpreted because the recipient doesn't see my wry grin, for example. But I could attach an emoticon 
or emoji 😀 or perhaps one of those annoying abbreviations (lol) ....
In fact I think it was you who scolded me one day because of the way I said something, because humour didn't come through the words.
Wow! Scolding! Really!
Thank you kind sir!
Bubbly 🥂
You are MrsN. ATB
I missed this, when it was posted 18 hours ago... but it WOKE ME this morning! Volleyball? Really! I am in awe of YOU! ...but WTF? I am thrilled to hear NOTHING is broken, that is fabulous news! Good job you tap dancing, walking, Calcium and Vit K2! All seems to have worked. Please do me a favour... stay off volleyball court for awhile!
PS HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY! xxxxxx
Ooooh - your bones!!! Good on you not breaking anything!!!!
Glad to hear you are still in one piece. I have just had a shower and packed my case for a visit to my kids in Scotland and I am exhausted. They have been in Cornwall for a week and have just left there and will pick me and OH up on the way back to Scotland. It's a long way but there are 2 drivers so can have a rest.
Have a wonderful time!!!! I have discovered that the thing that exhausts me the most..and used to invigorate me oddly enough is a SHOWER!!! (and drying hair etc)
Thank goodness no broken bones.....and the 8 hour drive....you must be bionic! You're an inspiration to us all..
I got cancer on my 66th birthday, the same as my mother and her sister all diagnosed at the same age!
Oh no! PMR and a couple falls ..are way less than cancer... I shall not complain. !! (Well I will but I shouldn't! haha) Hope all is fine and dandy now! (except for this damn PMR)
Glad to hear you survived your tumble and not a broken bone! Sometimes you've just got to have some fun and do things that aren't sensible! Hope you'll be on top form soon x
Ouch !!! - well at least you 'were' out there having fun - up until then. Anyway Yoga bonnie you look at least a decade younger than your 'real' age so you are doing SOMETHING 'right' ... maybe I'll try the tap dancing - I Know all that bouncing is meant to be good for bones ... A belated Happy Birthday !!
All the best
Rimmy
XX
Thanks so very much!!
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