Dr Caoimhe Hartley

Like you're, you have a whole other half at least or more, hopefully.

And it's quality of life.

I look at my mum and she has really bad osteoporosis, as I've mentioned, but she is fantastic for her age.

She's brilliant.

And I want to be like her.

And so I want to be like her, but I don't want to have to live like, you know, I don't want to cut everything out between now and then.

So it's about maybe having that discussion about how to balance all of that and say, look, you know, what can I do?

Get the information.

And then you sort of deal with that on a day to day basis, don't you?

Like I make, you're making constant risk benefit analysis as you go through life.

Yeah.

I'll have the glass of wine.

What's the risk?

What's the benefit?

I wish I didn't fucking know what osteopenia, I'll tell you that.

This is why I'm sticking my head in the sand about my own bones.

But yeah, I think it shouldn't just be trying to tick off a load of things on your list of shit I have to do today.

You

have to live around it.

I would see our clinic as a kind of safety net of there's the other end of the spectrum and there's people who don't realise that they should be getting a mammogram every two years or they don't realise that if they're having bleeding after sex, that's a bit of a red flag.