COLUMBUS OH

(I see that my 3 October post also has evaporated into outer space - who knows why? Oh well, I'll just combine it with this one.)

If you missed both the 3 October and the May post, it may be have been 7 mo since we communicated. As boring as Columbus has been, nevertheless many things have happened some good, some not so good.

In the first place, health report. Bobbi has had no more fractures (thank God!) - probably because we discovered the cause of the repeated fractures - she suffered from a severe osteomalacia secondary to impaired calcium absorption in turn due to aging and reduced dietary intake. It turned out that Paul also had reduced blood levels - haven't checked Lew yet. A few weeks of increased calcium and Vitamin D intake seems to have increased blood levels of both vitamin D and calcium, and stopped the fractures. And by the way, none of our numerous physicians ever thought to check any of our blood levels of vitamin D, even when 2 members of the family both were found to ha reduced levels.

Lew's health remains pretty much status quo. He has recovered a little of his strength but his balance remains very poor and he continues to have the various pains in his back, legs, and biceps (Dx = ?????).

(It's 2 AM, so I'm quitting this. More later. An superannuated hippie.