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Message from my iPhone!

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Lizzie_Ellen
Lizzie_Ellen

Wow! I can't believe I've figured out how to post this on my lovely new toy. Couldn't even think straight this time last year and here I am being a 'cutting edge' Nannie :lol: How useful is this new skill? Not in the least bit but boy does it feels good to have my lovely brain back :shock: so chuffed to have learnt something useless today! Take care everyone. Lizzie Ellen

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  • gillybee
    gillybee

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    All this mobile phone talk amongst us 'oldies'.. :D. But to be honest I don't know where I would have been without my mobile over the years, I rely on it so much. I do try to keep up and change mine quite regularly, and have a Nokia 95 3G at the moment, which I was told was cool.. 8), but no doubt it's out of fashion now.

    I have surfed the net on it, been on Youtube, and do use the camera, and I love to use it to video my grandaughters. Oh..and I do make calls on it too.. :lol:

    Talking of BP tabs, on top of my pred, my weekly Alendronic acid tab and vitamin D supplements, I also take 4 different types of BP tabs every morning, as high blood pressure runs in our family. I have been on these tabs for about 10 years now.

    I take Atenolol, Amlodipine, Rampril and Bendroflumethiazide..phew!

    I have my own blood pressure reading machine which I use to keep check on how I was doing, but haven't dared to use it since my onset of PMR. I will leave that to the medical staff at the surgery.

    I often wonder what the hell is going on inside me taking all these drugs.

    gilly.

  • EileenH
    EileenH

    Posted

    Hope Rick doesn't think I'm getting at blokes but I decided a few years ago that men over 55 shouldn't generally be allowed to have a mobile phone as I had so many bad experiences with them creating a five-act drama (never mind the 3-act variety that used to be standard :lol: ) over using one! :roll: My husband can just about make a phone call if he knows the number or call me on my Italian phone from his Italian phone (can manage Contacts, Other phone!). I've had the same mobile no for about 20 years (apart from when Vodafone went from 04 to 077) but he STILL asks me every single time what it is. :roll: And I too had one of the brick variety more years ago that I can to remember - should have kept it when I graduated to a small one, they became worth a lot of money! But all these fancy things really don't appeal at all.

    EileenH

  • Mrs_G
    Mrs_G

    Posted

    Hello Eileen

    My husband is pretty good with his mobile and I must admit on the technical side of computers he is better than me ( he is still working ) !! but he is hopeless doing texts as at work he does them all via his computer and he finds this little machine too limiting !!

    I can remember his first car phone was the size of a car battery almost like one you see in war films when they try to contact someone

    i have resisted an i phone as one of my friends ( only 39 !! ) has one and when i scroll on hers I always manage to either go the wrong way or delete something !! So you are doing well Lizzie Ellen !!

    best wishes

    Mtrs G

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