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When I was small, even before preteen, Grandpa would make pancakes on the weekend so Grandma could sleep in. It didn’t work because he always had to wake her up to ask her what ingredients to make them out of. She’d stay in bed anyway and we’d make pancakes (and a mess) in the kitchen. Grandpa,...
May reminds me of my mother, and not just because of Mother's Day. May is National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month. During the last 10 years of her life, my mother suffered significant disability from complications of osteoporosis.
People with low bone density have bones that are more...
I was driving along when I heard a radio talk show host tell me that I should get cash and put it in a safety deposit box because next year was going to be bumpy and I was going to need it. As my mind said ‘woah’, I had to fight the automatic urge to let my foot hit the brakes in the car. The words...
Q: How much calcium should I take to prevent osteoporosis (thin bones)?
Several years ago, after stepping out of her front door, my 75-year-old neighbor Barbara turned around and, after losing her balance, fell down a flight of stairs, shattering her left ankle and breaking her right arm in 3...
I was standing in line at a hospital cafeteria last week during Spring Break when I overheard a couple of nurses ahead of me in line talking. They were a few customers ahead of me. I wasn’t trying to overhear but the distress in the small nurse’s tone over leaving her eleven-year-old daughter at...
Q: My doctor wants me to start taking a particular medication once a week to strengthen my bones. How long do I have to take it?
Our bones can lose strength as we age, making them thinner and more likely to break.
How long do you need to take a bone-building medicine? That depends on how thin your...
Driving home on a four-lane highway with Grandpa last week I almost ran over a chair. Yep, a chair. Coming around the curve; going sixty miles an hour we saw yellow flashing lights a-ways ahead. Grandpa said, “See those?” “Yep,” I said wondering if it was road work lights or the lights from an...
Seventy-eight-year-old Mabel became anemic after being hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer. She was discharged home on medicine to heal her ulcer, plus an iron supplement. Three months later, Mabel’s blood tests showed she was still significantly low in iron.
When I asked about her iron supplement,...
Over the weekend a water leak sprang out in the closet where the water heater is housed over a round plastic water collection tray with three-inch-high sides setting over the beautiful oak hardwood flooring my late husband & Sonny put over all the floors in the house except the kitchen. The...
I went to Easter Sunday Service at a beautiful little old church; the windows were stained glass; the domed cathedral ceiling was polished wood; the lights were long lanky cylinder chandeliers, and the old hard wood floor was in pretty good shape for the shape it was in.
I noticed two ladies...
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