Re: To Jennie G (On topic and OT)

[Guest guest]

Thank you Jan. I hope you can resolve all these issues with your

home. I know it is so stressful to deal with people who don't care

and don't listen.

I am only 5'0 " so I don't have any room to shrink! I have

osteopenia. I have had two bone density tests and neither took as

long as yours. I am too young for fosamax (no data to say it helps

in premenopausal women) so I take 1500 mgs calcium and do weight

bearing exercises. I need to ask whem my next test will be. My mom

has severe osteoporosis and she takes something, I think it is

fosamax. It has helped her add bone density which is great for

her. The told her previously she had the bones of a 90 year old

woman and she's not even 60 yet.

Jennie

--- In , " Jan =^..^= " <azmomacat2@y...>

wrote:

> Dear Jennie:

>

> I was just reading over my daily digest this morning and passed

over this phrase that you had posted earlier.

>

> My thought was as I reread it was: How wonderful we have the RA-

family to vent on (or with) when we need to and how everyone have

their hands extended as soon as it appears we are in distress to

help us through it. Many people in the so-called normal world would

not understand, take offense and that would be the end of the

friendship. We are all normal in the respect we can understand the

depths that drove a venting of the emotions to the surface. And we

are " normal " people, just people who are challenged with a tad

( " tad " ?) more pain than the people we normally associate with in

everyday life.

>

> There is an overworked adage that could apply here. " When life

hands you a lemon....make lemonade. " RA-Support is my lemonade and

how sweet it is!

>

> My driveway, garage, front and side sidewalks, and front and back

patios were poured Thursday and Friday, however my fight is not over

yet. Now I am unable to get anything from them except tired and

well used (on women alone) phrases as to the promises as to when the

garage will be done. I have begun to push a little as this all

should have been done way last May. I am also faced with the

arrangement of how the door from the kitchen opening into the

laundry room and the outside door opening into the laundry are

configured making it a fire hazard if an emergency ever were to

occur...no one would be able to get out. I'm getting " Quality

Control " at the factory okay-ed it so we're not going to change it.

So howcome, the other same models installed have it in correctly?

Many questions left unanswered that will be addressed by the time

the garage is completed and the front landscaping in....(landscaping

is another story also...I'm being cheated out of the backyard in

this also and

> it was paid for)...or a state agency will be addressed and if

need be....a federal one. The gates to enclose my backyard are not

in either. My dog and my cats have been staying with dear friends

in CA since April and they have been wonderful about the extended

stay. A great deal of my things are still in storage because the

garage isn't in and the storage fees have been racking up. I don't

know yet what can be done with that aspect but you can believe I am

exploring for answers.

>

> Friday, I had a bone density test done. I had one done about 5

years ago and was told I had low bone density and was prescribed

Calcium and Fossamax....both of which tore my stomach up terribly

and I refused to take them. This test was different...I think it

consisted of 1/3 ex-rays, 1/3 (20-30 minutes)of an MRI with my

laying flat on my back with my ankles strapped and turned to the

sides (bow-legged) and lying perfectly still and the other 1/3

MRI...still laying flat on my back but with a huge cube placed under

my legs for another 20-30 minutes. When I came down from the table

surface, it was so hard to walk as the hip and knee joints were

cramping (for the want of a better word) and it lasted until last

night. I ended up taking at least a 3 hour nap on Saturday because

of the pain from walking. I have had hip pain for 30 years ever

since when pregnant with my younger daughter, I tripped on a

sidewalk landing full bore on my right hip and ending up in the

hospital for several

> days when the pain (which became labor pains also) caused her to

arrive 3 months early. The bone density specialist I spoke with

told me there are ways to deal with low bone density now that would

not affect my stomach. There is a HX of this in my family. My

grandmother shrunk from about 5'4 " to 4'11 " over the latter part of

her life (no broken bones though) and my mother from 5'7 " to 5'. My

mother had several broken bones starting when she was 55 with a

broken hip. I've shrunk from 5'5 " to just a little over 5'2 " now

and have had some broken bones (nothing major...thank goodness). I

am not able to get my Calcium from milk even as I have a lactose

intolerance (can do cheese and cottage cheese though if I don't

overdo it).

>

> I think I have rambled on enough for today...see what happens when

I get started?

>

> ...(and anyone else), never feel guilty about anything you

release here. We all understand.

>

> Take care. Jan in AZ =^..^=

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thank you Jan. I hope you can resolve all these issues with your

home. I know it is so stressful to deal with people who don't care

and don't listen.

I am only 5'0 " so I don't have any room to shrink! I have

osteopenia. I have had two bone density tests and neither took as

long as yours. I am too young for fosamax (no data to say it helps

in premenopausal women) so I take 1500 mgs calcium and do weight

bearing exercises. I need to ask whem my next test will be. My mom

has severe osteoporosis and she takes something, I think it is

fosamax. It has helped her add bone density which is great for

her. The told her previously she had the bones of a 90 year old

woman and she's not even 60 yet.

Jennie

> Dear Jennie:

>

> I was just reading over my daily digest this morning and passed

over this phrase that you had posted earlier.

>

> My thought was as I reread it was: How wonderful we have the RA-

family to vent on (or with) when we need to and how everyone have

their hands extended as soon as it appears we are in distress to

help us through it. Many people in the so-called normal world would

not understand, take offense and that would be the end of the

friendship. We are all normal in the respect we can understand the

depths that drove a venting of the emotions to the surface. And we

are " normal " people, just people who are challenged with a tad

( " tad " ?) more pain than the people we normally associate with in

everyday life.

>

> There is an overworked adage that could apply here. " When life

hands you a lemon....make lemonade. " RA-Support is my lemonade and

how sweet it is!

>

> My driveway, garage, front and side sidewalks, and front and back

patios were poured Thursday and Friday, however my fight is not over

yet. Now I am unable to get anything from them except tired and

well used (on women alone) phrases as to the promises as to when the

garage will be done. I have begun to push a little as this all

should have been done way last May. I am also faced with the

arrangement of how the door from the kitchen opening into the

laundry room and the outside door opening into the laundry are

configured making it a fire hazard if an emergency ever were to

occur...no one would be able to get out. I'm getting " Quality

Control " at the factory okay-ed it so we're not going to change it.

So howcome, the other same models installed have it in correctly?

Many questions left unanswered that will be addressed by the time

the garage is completed and the front landscaping in....(landscaping

is another story also...I'm being cheated out of the backyard in

this also and

> it was paid for)...or a state agency will be addressed and if

need be....a federal one. The gates to enclose my backyard are not

in either. My dog and my cats have been staying with dear friends

in CA since April and they have been wonderful about the extended

stay. A great deal of my things are still in storage because the

garage isn't in and the storage fees have been racking up. I don't

know yet what can be done with that aspect but you can believe I am

exploring for answers.

>

> Friday, I had a bone density test done. I had one done about 5

years ago and was told I had low bone density and was prescribed

Calcium and Fossamax....both of which tore my stomach up terribly

and I refused to take them. This test was different...I think it

consisted of 1/3 ex-rays, 1/3 (20-30 minutes)of an MRI with my

laying flat on my back with my ankles strapped and turned to the

sides (bow-legged) and lying perfectly still and the other 1/3

MRI...still laying flat on my back but with a huge cube placed under

my legs for another 20-30 minutes. When I came down from the table

surface, it was so hard to walk as the hip and knee joints were

cramping (for the want of a better word) and it lasted until last

night. I ended up taking at least a 3 hour nap on Saturday because

of the pain from walking. I have had hip pain for 30 years ever

since when pregnant with my younger daughter, I tripped on a

sidewalk landing full bore on my right hip and ending up in the

hospital for several

> days when the pain (which became labor pains also) caused her to

arrive 3 months early. The bone density specialist I spoke with

told me there are ways to deal with low bone density now that would

not affect my stomach. There is a HX of this in my family. My

grandmother shrunk from about 5'4 " to 4'11 " over the latter part of

her life (no broken bones though) and my mother from 5'7 " to 5'. My

mother had several broken bones starting when she was 55 with a

broken hip. I've shrunk from 5'5 " to just a little over 5'2 " now

and have had some broken bones (nothing major...thank goodness). I

am not able to get my Calcium from milk even as I have a lactose

intolerance (can do cheese and cottage cheese though if I don't

overdo it).

>

> I think I have rambled on enough for today...see what happens when

I get started?

>

> ...(and anyone else), never feel guilty about anything you

release here. We all understand.

>

> Take care. Jan in AZ =^..^=

>

>

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