Barbara Scully

Okay.

But the cynical side of my brain would say that when you're mid-60s and now I know I have an underlying thing of the diabetes, which also comes into play, but you've also got health insurance and you're also banged around having all kinds of tests, which I'm grateful for.

There was a brilliant woman on Tommy Tiernan a couple of weeks ago, Irish, but I think she's in London.

And she's an academic and she was trying to be very nuanced, but I totally got what she was talking about, about this over-diagnosis today of things.

And she was talking about the screening, which points at people who may or may not develop something.

And then we end up treating that, even though they may not ever develop it.

And it's, yeah, I certainly think as you get older, like when I got my bills from the VHI, like I don't know how to evaluate how much an MRI should cost or a CT scan or whatever the other things I had were.

But the accommodation in the Hermitage in a shared room was 1200 euros a night.

I could stay in the Shelburne Hotel in a double bed with Egyptian cotton sheets, with proper toiletries, with my own bathroom and a fabulous breakfast for about 700.

And you could probably even like rent a man as well.

If you wanted to do that.

But why spoil a nice, why spoil a lovely night away?

But yeah.

But anyway, I probably won't go there.

But I just think the lesson I've learned in the last six to 12 months is always stay in charge and trust your gut.

And your body does, no matter how old you are, maybe not no matter how old you are, but certainly in your 60s, your body still will respond.

It's slower, but it will respond to you doing the right thing.

I have no hip pain now.

And my strength is coming back.

Well, since diabetes, I have to, but I was doing the walking, you know, I'm walking every day.