Then your rheumatologist was probably being a patronising twat (they are at high risk of that!).
You do not absorb it, you manufacture it in response to UVB radiation.
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Well I think it better to try to supplement my body’s work making vitamin D with pills that are prescription only as the doctor said to take and bounc out to every glimpse of sun
I have lost 8 centimetres due to oesto arthritis
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I’ve shrunk, too, Twellsy. From a very low starting point.
Soo xx
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I haven’t lost height, but I am aware that my posture isn’t as good as it was
Carinthia.xx
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So…face masks. It seems that I’ll have to order some, for fear that we won’t be let out of the hive without one. Having scampered about T’Internet, I have grown weary of the hunt and shall try again, tomorrow. I am not convinced of the advisability of all and sundry wearing face masks* without due care and attention, yadayada, but may be forced to go with the flow. Meh.
Soo xx
*Petty crime?
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If you make a face-mask with two layers of cotton or polycotton – an old teeshirt is ideal – and one piece of kitchen roll between the cotton layers, as far as I can make out it is just as effective as ordinary hospital-use (not surgery) ones. Cambridge University labs seem happy with that, anyway. You throw away the paper and put the mask straight into hot soapy water as soon as you come in, plus hand-washing, and you’re reasonably safe. (And you know how to take a mask off…)
The idea anyway is to protect the people you would otherwise be breathing on: anything less than full surgical or a gas-mask isn’t going to keep out all of everyone else’s breath if you get too close to them. Then you hope other people wear masks and protect you.
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Sez who?
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Whatever gives you that idea?
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I am really really confined/cocooned with another asthma attack/chesticle infection
The out of hours emergency gnurse reckoned horseypiddle
The quack was my GP and so I have nebulisers anti bionics and stair rods
Horseypiddle treatment at home…
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Glad to hear it - a hospital is the last place you’d want to be in the present circumstances.
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Oh bluddy hell, Twellsy. I hope the muti sees it off soonest.
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No more sinbathing then, Madam !
Keep yer clothes on & get well
Carinthia.xx
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Weather here back to normal service
Cold and wet!
Sinbathing unlikely…
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And also know how to both sport them (no fiddling, while in situ etc.) and discard them. I am certain that those here present will do all the right and sensible things. Those I have observed, recently, seem to be below the mark in their behaviours.
I am sorry for your poorly chesticle, Twellsy. Stay well away from further aggravation! XX
Soo xx
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Even with a minor fiddle, people are going to be better off with masks than not, surely - let’s not make the best the enemy of the good and all that. But they are a very good reminder not to touch one’s face unnecessarily.
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No, Gus. Not in my opinion. Are these minor fiddlers going home to wash their hands for 20 seconds with soap and water? Should someone koff in one’s vicinity, a face mask may give false feelings of security. Wearing a mask and wearing glasses means the lenses steam up, unless the seal on the mask is secure around the face - which it rarely is. I am sick of myself on this topic and I’ll leave it. Stay safe, my Lovelies.
Soo xx
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Shamelessly thieving and recklessly masked, yer bee.
Soo xx
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This one definitely is. As I am sure will many others. If people aren’t doing that, then whether or not they wear a mask is irrelevant to their safety and still probably beneficial for others’.
Sorry, know you said you were leaving the subject but I wanted to explain myself, rather than pick a fight (uncharacteristic, I know…)
G xxx
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I s’pose that my greatest concern is about the viral spread from mucky critturs who don’t really have a clue - azzin, not you, Gus. And, there are lots of people who don’t gettit.
Soo xx
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