The Arm goes on
After several years I finally learned that when you go to this site Posterous.com, if you click on READER in the Upper Right Corner, you can read stuff easily. Forward and backward in time. Makes life easier.
Today, I'm filling in lost time.
August 31, 2011
The good news is that I don’t have osteoporosis, only osteopenia. For now, I can increase the amount of calcium citrate and vitamin D that I take each day and hope that is sufficient to build stronger bones. A month from now I’ll have another blood test to see how things are going. I’m sure it is helping me. My nails break less often; imagine how strong my bones are getting. The Bone Man said that I should have been swimming since the stitches came out. Helps flexibility, but maybe the resistance of the water helps strengthen bones, too. If this hurricane hits, the whole City will be swimming.
I’m happy to hear that the City and State governments are taking Hurricane Irene seriously, that they have evacuation plans and are storing strawberry pop tarts. I haven’t had a hurricane since we were in Florida in about 1980. All those cousins in Grandpa and Grandma’s house, sleeping on the floor as the atmospheric pressure dropped, the wind picked up and Grandpa said, “It’s not going to come here! It never comes here!” He had decided to sleep in the screened-in Florida room. The next morning, he said “OI! That was some wind!” The storm just brushed by Mt. Dora, but he was impressed by the power.
This is potentially much more dangerous, especially because so few people know what to expect. Going without electricity for a day, maybe three, being held inside in the dark, limited food, that can be a problem for people. Well, I do have another puzzle in the closet.
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by Dorothy Lawrence
