Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Sorry to hear about the smash-and-run, MrsLW, and agree it should be reported. For all you know, that same vehicle may have caused a crash before or after it brushed your car.

maryb, I've been reading some very interesting stuff lately putting wheat firmly on the naughty step for any number of things, including osteopenia and osteoporosis. As in, robbing the bones of calcium. You might want to have a read-around the area and see what you think.

Definately agree with the dark leafy greens in quantitiy, you never hear anyone ('cept Mardatha ) saying they're not good for you. I'm pleased about the chard as I have a lot of it on the allotment, all self-sown, and am eating it most days.

I run a hightened risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis as am on corticosteroid replacement therapy and will be for life. Nearly 20 years thus far and no bone loss but they don't have a baseline reading from before I started started; it was me prompting them that it might need monitoring which caused a consultant to wake up and agree I should have a DEXA and I have had them at 5 yearly intervals ever since.

Fingers crossed, no problems thus far, but I agree that the side effects of that medication sound far too serious to be endured. Hope you can get a medication and/ or a dietary modification which will improve your bone health.

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Sadly don't think it will be worth reporting it as all we can say is a dark blue estate car smashed our wing mirror today, there are so very few police here anyway I don't think it would do anything except add to their paperwork!!!

fuddle

Sorry to read you had that experience today Lyn. We all go by our instinct, our feelings, our summing up etc and act how we feel appropriate in a situation. It was your choice to deal with the problem, calm yourselves and think here by the grace of god go I in the situation.

As a prepper I can understand feelings of acting in terms of perspective and because I'm a prepper I understand that 'I should do' in a situation isn't necessarily the right thing but a modern societal norm based on other influences...

insurance claims, personal injury claims etc etc

GreyQueen

For most of human history, toughness, reserve, reticence and stoicism in the face of difficulty (even long before the Stoics themselves) were regarded as among the highest human virtues.

When life it tough, the whiny subset of humanity are pretty much regarded as despicable. I'm comfortable with that world view.

We live in an age where there is an unwillingness to accept personal responsibility in just about all aspects of life. Someone must be blamed and, if at all possible, sued for enormous sums to make up for trifling hurts and inconveniences, while real woes are left unaddressed.

Sometimes, all there is to do is shrug, mutter sh*t happens, dust yourself off and get on with it.

I'm annoyed that Lyn and her hubby are out of pocket, but I can understand her decision to just get on with it.

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Bless you both for caring and being so supportive, we're not going to go without over this, we have a store cupboard bulging with sustenance , pretty full freezers, it's warm so we won't need to heat anything except the water and if all else fails we've got a barbecue and Fatima to cook on outside and a 20 litre solar shower to stay clean with.....He couldn't have hit people better prepared for it could he? Here's to PREPPING YYAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

ivyleaf

Oh Lyn, I'm so glad it was only your wing mirror :eek:

You mentioned going to Lee - when I was little there was an open-air swimming pool on the sea front there, and I remember my Mum taking me there one day. The water was freezing! Mum said that was because it was a fresh water pool, which seemed very strange to me when it was just beside the sea. I must have moaned a lot about how cold it was, because she never took me there again. Well, not to swim in the pool, at any rate

GreyQueen

You're a star, Lyn.

I was once reading Shirley Conran's orginal Superwoman book and she was remembering her struggles when left to bring up her sons on her own with no money and even facing homelessness at one point. And how she once made a list of her blessings, which started with her mum and ended with her duvet, and realised she had many things to be thankful for.

SuperGran is a stoic and soldiers on with bad arthritis and is in her seventies now. She is indefatigable and a great example to me, as well as to others who know her, of practicable, no-nonsense kindness. She's a church lady with a a truly wicked sense of humour and isn't afraid to call a spade an effing shovel, if it needs to be said.

In life, one needs to grow a set of balls, even us ladies need metaphorical cojones. Sometimes, I like to think what would Granny Weatherwax have done?

Which might be a trifle odd to some of you, but my inner Granny W can be heard yelling Don't be such a wet hen! at some things I hear as I wander through the world.:rotfl:

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Granny Weatherwax, or Esme as I'm allowed to call her would have turned his wheels square and at the same time removed both the suspension and the cushions from his driving seat, and then turned the stretch of road he was driving over into cobbles which would magically have returned to a road that is fully tarmac'd as the ones in front of his wheels turned to cobbles.......whenever he drove his car forever and a day or two!!! she's a good 'un is Esme!!!

NewShadow

Or, indeed, given him a boil on his bum...

milasavesmoney

Lyn, you unfortunately give us a good example that disaster is one second away when we least expect it. (Sad to read this happened to you two)
Your preparation also shows how important it is to be prepared.