[TheForge] Frosty bones and drybrushing

[Jerry Frost]

Darn Robert! That's hard to read, I don't blame you for 
ranting. I'm starting to feel betrayed by my body and 
I'm really lucky in the ancestors I picked, most of 
them lived long enough to become real pains in the butt 
to their families.

Here's hoping the exponential growth in medical 
knowledge finds the fixes we need to all become pains 
in the butt to the next several generations.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.



From: "robert hensarling" <rhrocker at hilconet.com>


> 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