Text 2473, 106 rader
Skriven 2006-06-24 18:47:28 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 2345 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: some news
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 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.

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

Yeah, he's a delightful fellow and quite a cook so we match up well.  He's as
much a research type as a 'GP' as you may have caught on.  His love is
research but doesnt want to stop also seeing patients.

 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.

RH> Sounds like an interesting theory.

Very.  Some of the USA stuff i read long ago shows that the source of the
calcium suppliments can make a big difference and that was 10 years ago. 
Smething about the most common cheap one from ?seashells? was far less
effective than the amount of calcium in them would suggest.

 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.

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

Humm.  Could be you are eating the right stuff then since you are 'all german'
if I remember right.  Me, I already eat the right proportion of the vegetable
kingdom for calcium 'japan style normal' and use almost no milk (cholestrol
shifts in my diet).

Remember me sending you 'aku bone' recipe?  Thats a classic Hawaiian one
dressed up fusion style and very popular before they had pigs and beef on the
islands.  It's also very calcium high.  I only had it a few times and liked it
but now, I am almost craving marrow soup and things with bones.

I have a feeling the Doc is right on this one and I am not getting quite as
much calcium as I need?  As we age, thats an odd one that goes up as we women
get older.


 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?

RH> The wrist implants were to realign the bone after it broke; they had t
RH> do a graft from the hip to lengthen it out a bit and hold that into
RH> place with a plate.  With the elbow, the bone was shattered into
RH> enough pieces that the plate was the only way to put it back together
RH> I'd have any sort of use from it.  That actually healed rather fast; t
RH> doctor tried a course of indocin (forget if it was 4 or 6 weeks) to he
RH> the small parts resist inmflamation and I was into therapy 4 weeks aft
RH> the break. I think the doctor is thinking of a plate because of the
RH> location of the break on the foot--one that seems very susceptable to
RH> repeat fractures on top of the initial one.

Ah ok.  I was not sure.  Perhaps your calcium levels are not related then. I
have a feeling (unsure) that I am needing suppliments to keep me healthy on
this one and will check those out when I can get to the store (about 1 July).
My diet shifts no longer have me needing to take iron suppliments which in my
case show as nosebleeds if i get anemic.

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

 CS> Humm, food for thought at least?

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

Hehe there it is,  I recalled germanic ancestry not just stationed there.  But
you seem to be eating right for that, so it was a wild herring at best.

                                       xxcarol

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