just above the elbow. And I fell hard after catching the side of my foot on a paver stone.

The result was, well, I guess I conducted my own bone density test because all I got was a couple of bruises. I was shocked, too, because of the way and how hard I fell. I really expected I had seriously damaged something.

I've never had a major bone break, and I'm a life long klutz so I've taken a lot of falls, but rarely one that hard. That fall scared me so I am being SO much more cautious, now.

On a side note, I have broken each and every toe, at least once, from bashing the in to some unmovable object.

I knew that sometimes a person doesn't break her hip in a fall; her hip breaks, which causes a fall.

I just had a bone density test, and while I've always felt I had nice thick, heavy bones (handy for explaining overweight), I was shocked to be told I have some osteoporosis. But my doctor doesn't want to treat me for it until I've finished my extensive orthopedic surgery plans.

We were doing repairs on our stairwell going up to the 2nd floor, and I told my other half that sometimes I got a little dizzy (maybe once in 20 events), and he turned around and immediately put up stair railings for those steps. How nice and I do feel safer. We do have railings everywhere, and that rough tape that keeps you from slipping in the shower/tub. Every little thing you can do, IMHO, helps you prolong your life into a better, longer, and safer life.

Protect yourself and yours. That's the number 1 priority when you get up there in age (and for that matter, you don't need an age limit to put these things up to safeguard yourselves).

advised me, when I told him about remodeling our shower, to put in at least two grab bars. We did, one right at the front under the shower controls (makes a nice place to hang my washcloth, too), and one right at the point where you step into the shower. These were so helpful--especially when I wash my hair and have my eyes shut, and when I stand on one leg to wash my feet--that we've added grab bars all over the place.

And now my little 20-month-old grandson can use one of them to take the step up into our kitchen all by himself!

anything and if anything, one slip, one bad fall avoided, and you've paid for it all many times over!

If you can build them up.

That said, I am picking up everything I can, because my strong glasses see clearly only in my line of sight. Stuff on the ground goes blurry. Same for people new to bifocals. A lot of people fall when stairs and obstacles go blurry in the lower "reading zone"

I live alone in the boondocks, so there's only myself to nag about picking things up, but I am really tired of stubbing toes.

Nothing worse so far. I'll be ready for potential falls.

Tires, safety--is there anything you can't do?