[Magdalen] Ravages of Time.

[Jay Weigel]

IAN David, but I will second the annoyance of the spots. And I don't take a
blood thinner, or even aspirin! It's just age *sigh* Particularly for those
of us of northern European extraction, I think. Thinner skin, and all that.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> are you on a blood thinner David?
> Lynn
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> Subject: [Magdalen] Ravages of Time.
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>>
>> Now with the summer heat and the wearing of short sleeves,
>> the increasingly appalling "senile purpura" is quite visible.
>>
>> These are secondary to subcutaneous bleeding from old, weakened
>> blood vessels related to aging and excessive sun exposure.  They
>> consist of the purplish non-blanching areas, most frequently seen  over
>> the forearms and the backs of the hands.  They resolve after a  week
>> or two, but in my case are just replaced by new areas.
>>
>> This is, I think, a combination of being susceptible due to age, and
>> the playfulness of four (count 'em FOUR) dogs.
>>
>> Despite being one of the commonest skin problems I saw during
>> practice years, I can scarcely believe how beat up my forearms
>> now are.
>>
>> Patients would persist in asking me what to do about the lesions.
>> Other than avoiding obvious trauma (raspberry brambles, trimming
>> the thornapple trees, etc.) I would tell them to "turn the clock  back."
>>
>> I'm now having to eat those words.
>>
>> When my older brother, Jim, and I went over to Winchester for the
>> 900th Anniversary in the 1970's, many of the events were scheduled  out
>> on the close next to the north edge of the nave.  We had never seen  such
>> a display of flowered dresses and hats on the ladies of riper years.
>> I realized these dresses were all long-sleeved in order to cover the
>> senile
>> purpura.
>>
>> I'll bet the Queen doesn't appear in sleeveless dresses much these  days!
>>
>>
>> David Strang.
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