[Magdalen] How?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

... my mom's cholesterol was lowered so significantly while taking statins 
(and you all know how I feel about those meds...), that she took that as a 
license to go back to eating butter and very fatty things... : (

Amazingly enough Mom never had a heart attack and even survived 14 years of 
that drug that was finally pulled for femur fractures a few months before 
her major stroke in '11 -  the one that was supposed to help people with 
osteoporosis (I think her docs in MI and TX just put her on it as a 
'precautionary' -  miracle drug that it seemed at the time).  I don't know 
if her devotion to vitamins and minerals had a positive effect, but when her 
neuropathy began to cause falls (which took us 4 years to see a pattern, and 
then seek a cause), she never broke a bone until one day when she fell 
directly on her outstretched arm/hand and broke her wrist.... previously, 
many falls on  her hips never phased her. The nerve damage from the stroke 
to the leg that had the knee replacement was basically what confined her to 
a wheelchair for the last 5 years of her life.

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "ME Michaud" <michaudme at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 1:26 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] How?

> It's your body and you must do what you think right.
>
> Butt
>
> the side effects of anti-hypertensive meds can be nasty (and nastier for
> men than for women).
> And they don't do much for peripheral vascular disease,
> and may, in fact, exacerbate it,
> where a low-sodium diet can help alot.
> -M