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Skriven 2006-06-19 19:11:21 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2263 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: some news
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Hi Carol,

RH> I've got to go back for my foot next Thursday but doubt I'll be doing
RH> much walking; it's hurting like it was before I had X-rays diagnossing
RH> the break.  I'm half wondering if somehow it was rebroken; how, I

 CS> Ruth, good to find this hear as i catch up with backlog.  Just got off
 CS> the phone with Don's old Doc.  He called to see if i could come in too
 CS> for a blood test since we are going up to Fukuoka in 3 weeks.

He's got both of you now! (G)  As you've read, yes, the foot was
rebroken.


 CS> His interest this time is calcium and wants to take some measurements
 CS> of my bones and things for research.  Since he has a good grasp of our
 CS> eating habits already, he's checking on the genetics of how women
 CS> absorb calcium from foods. With a population that garners such not as
 CS> often from milk products as the USA, he is curious to see if us
 CS> 'gaijin' garner it as well from greens as Japanese do.  I fit his
 CS> profile.  He's not asking for marrow samples or anything hard so will
 CS> let him check.

Sounds like an interesting theory.


 CS> Due to my cholestrol history, I am abstemious of most milk products
 CS> though I do love my cheese on a reasonable rate schedule.  Apparently
 CS> many Japanese women absorb calcium best from vegetable sources and do
 CS> not get the same benefit levels from other sources.  I may be a bit
 CS> off on one eating habit as he asked if I eat shrimp shells (i do not,
 CS> but make soup of them occasionally).

 CS> Could you be eating much calcium rich foods but not the right ones to
 CS> absorb correctly for your own system?  That would cause bones to be
 CS> slow to heal and be brittle.  Not all suppliments work right for that
 CS> as even in the USA, we read about.

That's possible.  I take a suppliment (calcium citrate, better absorbed
than calcium carbonate) plus try to have a 12 oz glass of chocolate soy
milk most every day.  I also eat more cheese, yugurt and suchlike but
don't genreally either drink a lot of cow's milk (we only keep the dry
of that on hand for cooking & baking) or have a lot of leafy greens.
Weak bones do run in my family (maternal side) but I think I've been hit
with more of a whammy at an earlier age than my mom or her mom did.

 CS> The USA trained Docs think I'm just wierd.  The Japan one is a bit
 CS> worried that I have a hankering for bone marrow soup with kang koon
 CS> (spinach) but says my body is just telling me something.  It could be
 CS> I am not absorbing it as well as a Japanese woman, from vegetable
 CS> family sources.  It comes to my mind you may be the reverse as you
 CS> have a history of needing metal implants as the bones do not heal up
 CS> right?

The wrist implants were to realign the bone after it broke; they had to
do a graft from the hip to lengthen it out a bit and hold that into
place with a plate.  With the elbow, the bone was shattered into
enough pieces that the plate was the only way to put it back together so
I'd have any sort of use from it.  That actually healed rather fast; the
doctor tried a course of indocin (forget if it was 4 or 6 weeks) to help
the small parts resist inmflamation and I was into therapy 4 weeks after
the break. I think the doctor is thinking of a plate because of the
location of the break on the foot--one that seems very susceptable to
repeat fractures on top of the initial one.

As for cravings--the only time I got a really serious one was about 7
years ago for chocolate.  Truns out my body was craving the theobromines
(related to theophylline) because I was having (in succesion) an asthma
flareup, bacterial bronchitis, a low grade pneumonia and a viral
bronchitis.  Unfortunately, by the time I got to the doctor and started
getting treated, the downward cascade had started and couldn't be
arrested; I just had to stay the course and hang on, knowing that things
would eventually improve.

 CS> Humm, food for thought at least?

Very much so.  My heritage is 100% Germanic so there's no Asian
influence genetically.  Just have developed a liking for Asian food. (G)

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