Text 2571, 116 rader
Skriven 2006-06-27 17:49:18 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 2473 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Ärende: some news
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Hi Carol,

 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.

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

Enjoy it while you can.  I've got one more visit with my PCM and
pulminologist as a "just because" and renew any meds that need it at the
last minute.  Don't know how many more with the ortho doc.

 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

RH> Sounds like an interesting theory.

 CS> Very.  Some of the USA stuff i read long ago shows that the source of
 CS> the calcium suppliments can make a big difference and that was 10
 CS> years ago. Smething about the most common cheap one from ?seashells?
 CS> was far less
 CS> 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).

I don't eat them nor do I make soup from them.


 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.

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

So, you should have good cholesterol.  They say that soy does help
there; I probably should get more of that than I do.

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

Very much so, the need.  Unfortunatly, a lot of stuff can leach it from
our bones too easily.


 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.

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

I usually take a mega multi plus the extra calcium & C.  The C helps my
breathing by keeping the congestion factor down in my lungs.


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

 CS> Humm, food for thought at least?

Yes, something to chew over in odd moments.


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. (

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

Lord only knows at this point.  Guess I'll eat more collards once we get
moved--should get settled right about the start of the collard season.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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