I have a special testing procedure that I do about every six months or so.? Extremely high tech and very complex, this can only be done by an expert trained in the procedure.? My latest test told me that my left knee, the one that I've had surgery on and subsequently opened on a marble stair in a local mall has enough calcium in the bones to support a small apartment block. If you want to try this at home, here is the procedure:
Spend all day longeing horses, riding, and taking down old windbreaks on your land.
Scramble at the end of the day to help prepare a barbecue dinner at a neighbour's place. Carry over the necessary salads, side dishes, etc.
Finally sit down in front of a campfire with a cold beer only to realise that something needed at the grill is in the neighbours kitchen.
Get up and start walking in the dark to the door of the house, turn your head to yell at the Rat Terrier who has decided to take the beer can from the spot next to your cushion where you left it.
Fall ass over teakettle over a Great Dane sleeping on the walkway to the house, landing on your right hand and stretching the already painful pulled tendon in the right elbow (from windbreak removal) and the barely functional left knee with enough force to skid for a few inches, thereby skinning the knee in question and leaving a nice red bloody spot on the inside of your jogging pants.?
Sit on the walkway for a couple of minutes to figure out of you have all of the right appendages in the right places and to catch your breath that is coming in quiet sobs for pain.?
Rise, assuring everyone that you are fine and do this sort of thing all the time.
Have another beer and repeat as necessary.
Do this often enough and you will know if you have osteoporosis...on the other hand they say that impact binds calcium so maybe this is actually treatment?
Maryanne
Cairo
On Feb 20, 2006, at 12:37 AM, Mary Ann Spencer wrote:
What do you base this on???? Many don't know they have it until they fall and fracture a hip.?
After reading Ridecamp and seeing comments about Osteoporosis I just had to? jump in.? I am a vegetarian and no dairy.? I am 66 years old with no signs? of osteoporosis. I admit I have been a bit lax with the exercise the last 2? or 3 years but I take no supplements and eat a lot of fresh fruits &? veggies.? It you want an education on dairy and osteoporosis go to the Not? Milk Man site at?www.notmilk.com.? It is quite an education. Marjorie Pryor-Spiller
