BONE DENSITY
Today I visited Dr. Fay at Family Health Center for the osteoparosis that was discovered when I was tested last week. I found out that my general practitioner hadn’t seen any signs of osteoperosis, he just thought at 88 I should be tested. So now I have one more sign that I am falling apart. On some scale, 2 is where I was at 30, but now I am at 2.9. I don’t know if I am 2.9 out of 10, and just beginning, or 2.9 out of 3, with little time left. Apparently if I fall and break my hip, where my bones are the weakest, I have a 30% chance of mortality within weeks. So I am supposed to drink lots of milk, which luckily is my favorite drink, and eat lots of cheese and take pill after pill of calcium citrate. I am also going to get a twice yearly Prolia injection, which is very expensive but covered by Medicare.
I don’t know which organ is failing to absorb enough calcium. I am quite aware, as my list of daily pills gets longer and longer that that organ after organ after organ is getting rickety and running out of steam and that these pills are supplementing what organ after organ is losing interest in doing. I’m not on life support yet but I am heading there, as cheerfully as I can.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 