Health Fair and a Walk
Mar. 8th, 2008 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday I went with Aunt M to the gym while Robin tried to fixed spotlight for Uncle D's ex-cop car.
At the gym, there was a health fair. Some of the stations were displays and some did testing of your own personal health. We decided to check it out and as a result, I got two tests I've been wanting to get.
I haven't had my hearing tested in a while. We got a brief test, with four tones in each ear, all of which I could hear.
The other one was a bone densitometry test. Again, we got a low-cost one where they measure the density of your heel bone. I have just about every risk factor for osteoporosis (pale skin, skinny bones, female, and a close family member has it), so I've been wondering how my bones are doing so far. I got to find out that my bones are plenty dense now (at least my left heel bone is), so that's good. And now I have a baseline measurement, so that later if I have another perfectly fine measurement, I can check if it's a worse perfectly fine measurement or the same perfectly fine measurement as today's.
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In the afternoon we went for a walk around the neighborhood. Check out this driveway entrance. There's nothing that says home like a big, old boat propeller.
I don't know why, but I just love that picture. Look at all the interesting life forms in it, too!
At the gym, there was a health fair. Some of the stations were displays and some did testing of your own personal health. We decided to check it out and as a result, I got two tests I've been wanting to get.
I haven't had my hearing tested in a while. We got a brief test, with four tones in each ear, all of which I could hear.
The other one was a bone densitometry test. Again, we got a low-cost one where they measure the density of your heel bone. I have just about every risk factor for osteoporosis (pale skin, skinny bones, female, and a close family member has it), so I've been wondering how my bones are doing so far. I got to find out that my bones are plenty dense now (at least my left heel bone is), so that's good. And now I have a baseline measurement, so that later if I have another perfectly fine measurement, I can check if it's a worse perfectly fine measurement or the same perfectly fine measurement as today's.
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In the afternoon we went for a walk around the neighborhood. Check out this driveway entrance. There's nothing that says home like a big, old boat propeller.
I don't know why, but I just love that picture. Look at all the interesting life forms in it, too!