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Precerpt from Grandma's Ninja Training Diary: 🩺📓 Geriatric? That’s a billing code, not a biography.

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  They say 65 is the geriatric threshold. I say: thresholds are for doorways, not identities. I didn’t suddenly become fragile when Medicare kicked in. Yes, I have osteopenia—thanks in part to years of “normal” omeprazole doses before anyone warned me it was quietly eating my bones. But I still climb ladders, carry cats, and troubleshoot household systems faster than most twenty-somethings. My bone scan may whisper caution, but my life shouts resilience. So, if “geriatric” means I qualify for discounts and confuse algorithms—fine. But don’t expect me to sit still, wear beige, or fade quietly. This Ninja has decades of stealth left—and a few choice words for the formulary. Grandma’s Ninja Training Diary  is the inspiring true story of a septuagenarian grandmother who dares to dream big—by training for  American Ninja Warrior . Teaming up with coach and trainer Brittany Renz, she embarks on a three-year journey to build strength, resilience, flexibility, balance, and end...