[TheForge] Frosty bones and drybrushing

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Aww Robert; That's disheartening.
If only the doctors would let us forge up our own titanium replacements. 
I've asked several times now when i broke something, and always get 
turned down.
We are making significant , er, breakthroughs in bone formation biology 
and more of the mechanisms are being revealed..cross fingers they solve 
it soon...good luck....pf

robert hensarling wrote:
> Good for you Frost Man!  I think you're on the road to an almost 
> recovery. You'll never be like you were before, but the fact that some 
> parts of you are healing, and becoming pain free is the best you could 
> hope for.  Over the last 4 years my bone density and decreased way into 
> the negative range. I don't remember the numbers, but something like 
> -1.9 rings a bell.  All the figures were in the negative range, which 
> means all the little old lady medicine I've been taking  for years just 
> isn't getting the job done.  This includes Actonel, Fortical and another 
> I don't remember.  I keep losing height, and that bothers me a lot.  I'm 
> now 3" shorter than I was in 03.  I guess I've lifted one to many 
> mesquite logs on the sawmill :o)
> I've never gotten used to the pain, but I know people that have.  In 
> this day and age with all our modern marvels, I don't see why anyone 
> should have to suffer.  Some doctors don't see it that way, but luckily 
> my team has really taken care of me, including a medicine pump implanted 
> in my abdomen, that works 24 hrs. per day.  It supplies medication to my 
> spinal canal via a tiny catheter.  What's next?  At least 2 more 
> surgeries, if, and that's a big if, if my fragile bones will start 
> healing themselves and building up calcium again, but so far it's a no 
> go.  I just turned 59, and I guess I'm just going to finally have to 
> accept the fact that my remaining years (or at least I hope that "years" 
> will be plural!) must be lived out being really careful.  In two years 
> I've broken my ribs in 11 places, without even knowing when or how I 
> broke the darn things.  Sorry about the semi-rant, I get made at myself 
> for being in this shape, even though they tell me it's surely hereditary 
> in nature.  I guess I'd be better off is I would be mad at my 
> forefathers :o), but naw, I love those guys, even though I never met them.
> Dang I hate to babble like that, go get well Frosty!!!!
> Robert
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Frost" <akfrosty at mtaonline.net>
> To: "Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Frosty bones and drybrushing
> 
> 
>> No, osteoporosis isn't a factor, just the opposite. If I had normal 
>> bone density for a (then) 54 yr old the surgeon said he would've put 
>> everything where it was supposed to go and told me to be happy with 
>> whatever range I got back and learn to live with the pain. As it was 
>> my bone density is really good and all the fractures were clean, sharp 
>> and keyed together well, so he spent 7 1/2 hrs. doing as good a job as 
>> he could because I had a high probability of full recovery.
>>
>> The elbow socket joint was split in two and has healed completely, 
>> moves smoothly with no pain. Virtually all my loss of range is from 
>> soft tissue scaring on and near the olacronon(sp?) process. Even now, 
>> right after surgery #4 I have better than 85% range and am getting 
>> more every time I push the limits.
>>
>> Frosty
>> -------------------------------
>> If it ain't forged
>> it ain't real.
>> Wrought iron is.
>> The FrostWorks
>>
>> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>>
>>
>> From: "robert hensarling" <rhrocker at hilconet.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Frosty, could age be a factor?  It was with me.  Also have you been 
>>> checked for Osteoporosis, plus had a bond density exam done?
>>> Robert
>>>
>>
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