Sandy, thank you for your good wishes. You're right about the shin bone; I'm sure my layer of fat protected me from a broken leg. I've just about realized that with DNA a type W (5% of the population) I'm bound to be husky. My hereditary type settled the fartherest north on the planet, east and north of the Ural Mountains, now in Russia.

Thanks for your comments on my take on meditation.

Hi Susan. How is your leg? I hope you have healed nicely by now.

Phyllis, thanks for asking,only one spot is still sore and the skin warm to the touch: the conjunction between my right shin and knee - where you would kneel down. Been 7 weeks now.

I am happy to hear that you are doing better, Susan.

Seven weeks! It does not seem that long ago. I can so relate to the soreness and what it feels like just under the knee. I once fell many years ago and that spot was sore for quite awhile. It was when I was a young mother and always down on the floor playing with the babies, or hand waxing my huge kitchen floor with paste wax.

Other than your knee, it seems like you are healing well. Take care.

Cassie67 and Phyllis, thank you!

Phyllis, thanks for telling me you had the same situation, it helps me hearing about it from someone else.

NOW, I've scraped the pavers of all moss and dirt where I slipped, even though they were covered with ice. And as I approach my back gate and have to walk across those pavers I still look at them a moment and tread carefully. I guess the mental part will stay for a while.

Yes, accidents like that will put a warning button in our minds. You really are fortunate, though, that there was no serious head or neck injury or concussion. My sister broke her neck when she fell and hit her head. The front part of the upper vertebrae were fractured, they called it a C1 and C2 fractures. After one year she still has to have therapy and her movements are restricted.

Phyllis, I am so sorry for your sister, and I will keep her in my prayers. Many blessings, Susan