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Dance practice was good. Our new troupe tops came in and
were distributed. They are even prettier than I hoped. We ran through the dance
for the May 31 show and the full program for a June 13 performance, where I
know three out of the five dances well enough for muscle memory to be in
effect, but the other two dances I don't know well enough to even fake it.
The note came from my primary care doctor about a week ago about
the DEXA scan. The verdict is “osteopenia,” which was the entire message
from my doctor. One word. I wrote back and asked “What am I supposed to do?” Minimal
helpful and hard to follow information arrived – specifically, “eat at least
1500mg of calcium from food sources.” Very little other info provided.
Now I’m reading articles online and reading labels and looking
at charts I can buy (no printer, so I can’t just whip one off) and discovering with dismay how much stuff I like has zero calcium (potato chips). And how little calcium
seems to be in a lot of other things I actually like. Milk is popular in the
lists, but it stuffs up my sinuses and makes my throat phlegmy and because of
that I have hated it since I was a kid. Seafood is popular on the lists, but I
don’t see myself or my grocery budget taking a shine to oysters (barf), crabs,
or sardines anytime soon.
Yogurt isn’t as cruel to me as milk is, and I may have to boost consumption
from a bowl to a gallon daily. Maybe an entire cheese wheel every day? Tofu is
on the list, but I have never succeeded in cooking an edible version of it, and
usually end out throwing it out. Dining out so I can have properly prepared
tofu is not likely to happen anytime soon, but maybe I can find a tofu cooking
school. This is going to be fun. And by that I mean, probably not fun at all.
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