Feeling pretty good. This was a checkup with the endocrinologist. I’ve got a bruise the size of a baseball at my elbow, but I’ll live. Just a little short on vitamin D—despite my hours in the sun. Hey, age does that to you: that’s why I’m s’posed to take the supplement. I got off my vitamin regimen in all the confusion of Jane’s illness and need to get back on it, but outside of that I’m doing fine.
I got a clean bill from the doc…
by CJ | Sep 14, 2011 | Journal | 6 comments
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Glad to hear you are mostly OK – the bruising sucks a lot. I have horribly hard to deal with veins – hard to find, they roll, sometimes I swear they dive closer to the bone when I see the needle coming. And the high blood pressure doesn’t help either…
As for Vitamin D – I read somewhere that all the sun in the world, and all the vitamin pills, don’t actually help your vitamin D intake, but that you need something else beside it to help your body actually metabolize the stuff. Otherwise it just passes through like a tourist in a hurry…
Hope your bruise fades quickly, at any rate 🙂
I’d be really pushing the lab supervisor about the conduct of the technician who decided that “she knew more about your body” than you did, and for her overconfidence in her abilities, she caused you a lot of pain and the resultant bruising. I have had technicians draw quantities of blood from the vein that has been pierced at least 300 times or so, and never felt a thing. Other times, when they have to push through the scar tissue, it hurts like a hot needle. Perhaps the supervisor can give the young lady a little bit of positive counseling to alert her to concerns voiced by a patient. I know many people in the medical field get a bit overconfident and believe they know best. My mother still believes that her doctors know more about her than she does, but my father is the one who always asks the questions. I have learned to voice my concerns about any healthcare provider if I suspect or observe what I consider to be improper care. That extends to selecting which arm they use to draw blood. Even the people who hook me up to the apheresis machines for platelet donations ask me which arm I prefer, and then if they’re not confident, they always ask if they can try the other arm. Same with the lab techs at the Air Force hospital I use, they ask first, then stick.
As for your results, good for you! considering all of the things you’ve been experiencing, that is one good bit of news. You’re probably better served with getting Vitamin D if you can get it through the foods you eat. Milk and other dairy products seem to help, although I can’t speak for the efficacy of supplements, I do use supplements as prescribed by my physician. Anyway, again, great news!
Well, besides that, it’s the PNW that does that to you, even if you are on the other side of the Cascades. Not to mention climate, just geometry dictates you’re only getting 70% of mean equatorial flux per inch of exposed skin.
hopefully not taking fosomax. I was just reading and listening to a podcast about how it does NOT really help bone density.. or rather, while it does increase ( something I can’t remember), it depletes (something else i can’t remember), so while increasing density.. it also increases bone brittleness. lot’s of good and great ways to get the calcium/ D requirements without it:) also, dunno bout other areas- but vermont has a fantastic program called bone builders, for strengthening bone density and all that:)
No—I just live on cheese. 😉
Yay! for your clean bill of health from the endocrinologist. After good nutrition, what helps bone density more than anything is staying active — weight bearing exercise, so your walking program is helping you there as well. Ditto the skating. I used to do a lot more walking than I do now, and I really need to get back into it, not just for my bones but to get my wind back too. I’m with you on the cheese, and I’m heavy into yogurt right now. Hearing you talk about your bread-making machine has gotten me to thinking about getting one myself.