I went to the doctor yesterday and found out I have thin bones. WTF! I’ve worked all my life to be delicate like Twiggy. Now I have thin bones and it’s not good. Okay…I guess. I told my doctor that I feel as if I’m falling apart and he (his little 36 y.o. self) told me, “Join the club, so am I! What?
I didn’t start falling apart until I was 45. The doctor told me I needed bifocals and I had glaucoma. My husband had driven me to the eye doctor and in the car on the way home I started crying. My husband said, “Don’t cry. You can control the glaucoma.” I looked at him as if he were crazy. “I’m not crying about that. I don’t want bifocals, FGS!” I’d been wearing those cute little cheaters from the drugstore, swimming in denial about my eyes going to hell. Bifocals screamed orthopedic shoes and my grandmother, in that order.
So yesterday after my powwow with my “falling apart doctor” I went shopping, taking my thin bones with me. I bought a birdbath and put it outside the window where I write. No birds yet. I swear if I don’t get some birds splashing around in this $125 birdbath I’m going to be pissed.
Back to falling apart: How can a 36 yo think he’s falling apart? At 36 I was drinking beer, dating, having fun on top of the world. Plus he also told me he’s paranoid about illness! I didn’t start getting paranoid about illness until the bifocal incident, FCS! Maybe I need to change doctors…a paranoid physician…more on this and the birdbath later.
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Poor baby!!!…TRACK :-/
I don’t know, I had my last child when I was 36!!!!! I guess I would not want him as my doc when he is 50…
I had my last child when I was 40. I am now in my late 50′s and having a blast! Use meds only as a last resort. Make sure you are eating healthy fresh foods – lots of veggies and fruit. Quit the sweetened drinks and stick to water only. Exercise. Get onto advanced quality supplements – antioxidants, multi-vitamins and multi-minerals plus omega-3 (go to antiagingboomer.com if you want more information about that). A great little book that I have just read is More Health, Less Care written by a doctor – read my review here http://antiagingboomer.com/more-health-less-care/ . Take good care of yourself and be happy
Your doctor is SAD!!! At 36 he’s falling apart AND afraid of illness. What kind of doctor is afraid of illness? I – too – seem to be falling apart and I try hard as heck each day not to think about what has happened to my body since the cancer. It seems like everything that could go wrong – did!!! And I’m afraid if I think too long about it – even more stuff will go wrong. I get up each morning, take my prescribed medication and go about my day – not thinking about the fact that 5 years ago the most I had to take was vitamins. Now I find out from my doctor that I have a vitamin D deficiency and she’s added yet another prescribtion to my collection to keep my bones from falling apart. I guess it all has to do with the aging process. One thing about it – when I see these so-called celebrities that are in our age group – I know they too are falling apart. They just have a boat-load of money to hire people to make them look fresh and new.
Had to laugh — not at your expense, I promise. This doc sounds like he knew you well enough to have you worrying about him rather than yourself. He might be practicing ‘diversion’ medicine. And for God’s own sake — what good is that?? You are sounding like a strong lady, — funny, sensible and where it’s at. Who else would go buy a birdbath because of their eyes being ‘not what they were’. There are some of us who just might get drunk at that diagnosis or gorge tons of food at it!! A birdbath?? I think you are wonderful and I just know those birds are going to come running soon. Maybe a bit of food in the plate near the bath.
Oh yeah, the bifocals moment, yuk…I’ve had “progressive” lenses for a while as I need glasses for reading and being on the computer.
Last eye check I heard I am shortly going to need completely separate glasses as well for driving and seeing at a distance! I carry a huge handbag because I have prescription reading glasses, prescription sunglasses, normal sunglasses, and cheapie readers in case I misplace my prescription progressives, and now I am soon to add driving glasses (tinted and non-tinted – so maybe TWO pairs?!?).
Hmmmm, are “thin” bones the same thing as osteoporosis, or not? Read up on the meds if the doc tries to put you on a prescription to preserve your bone density - the meds can do more harm than good. Suzanne Somers explains this in her book “Breakthrough.” Some meds just preserve your already crumbly bone and don’t let you build new bone. You don’t want to preserve what you have, but to promote new bone growth.
Also, don’t do non-fat dairy. Some milk fat is necessary to actually allow your bones to utilize the calcium in dairy. Without the fat, the calcium gets deposited in soft tissues and doesn’t make it to your bones (I read this in Paul Pitchford’s book “Healing With Whole Foods”).
First of all, I would run like heck away from this negative 36 y.o. Dr. fast. He is nothing but negative energy. Find somone who is positive and believes that “attitude is everything”. Yes. we are aging, but alot has to do with what message we put into our head.
Like parenting, do your best and the best you will believe and become.
I have osteoporosis, too, despite great health habits including strength training. I recently fell and a fall that would cause a “normal” person just bruises resulted in a shattered shoulder. I don’t know which was worse — the pain or the emotinal message of my fragility.
I have osteoporosis, too, despite great health habits including strength training. I recently fell – and a crash to the floor that would cause a “normal” person lots of bruises resulted in a shattered shoulder. I don’t know which was worse — the pain or the emotional message of my fragility.