Been there and done that with my daughter when she was nine. She developed a tummy ache in school. We didn't have a car available, so she had to walk the 1/2 mile home in pain. I really didn't think it was anything more than something she ate, but it just kept getting worse. I wasn't able to get her into a doctor till that evening, when their emergency clinic was open. He had her jump up and down and tell him if it hurt. That was how he decided she needed to go to the hospital. They actually had her do that there, too. She was in so much pain I had to carry her, and they had her jumping up and down. Turned out her appendix was ruptured, also. The luckiest thing about this was it happened a few weeks after my DH was laid off, but before his insurance ran out, so we were covered. A month later, and we would have been in real trouble. She recovered nicely, but had to take some huge antibiotic pills that they said had to be taken whole. No way. They were bigger than she was. (She's always been very, very tiny) We had to break them in half, and still they were big for her. Bobbi, you and your son are in my thoughts and prayers. He'll be out of there in no time, and feelling much better, I'm sure. Hang in there. Sally

Yeah, those are jet contrails and the morning sun in the reflection of a puddle from the rain the guy had received the night before. It was about 30 minutes after sun up.

The best news,just as we all hoped! Dexascan is a piece of cake - I used to do them when I worked in the Rheumatology office. Bone-building drugs may be prescribed, but they work slowly, so 6 weeks one way or the other won't make a huge difference. There are lots of reasons you can have osteopenia or osteoporosis - drug therapies, both chemo and steroids, being too thin (being under 127 pounds is a marker for risk), family history, early menopause, low calcium and Vitamin D, and the list goes on. For now, take care of yourself, be a good girl and do what the docs tell you to do. We'll all be here, thinking of you and cheering you on until those crutches are tucked away in the closet.

Sue, I have IE, Chrome, Opera, and Firefox. Right now I am using FF. I have not closed the browser nor have I deleted cookies nor cleared my cache or anything since opting out. Sure, it is not rocket science, but it is beyond me how to remedy this. I have resigned to just give up hope on the matter. I originally was going to let it ride and accept the ad links figuring that since this is a free site that I should tolerate it. But they are soooo annoying and useless. In the past I have occasionally clicked on a side bar ad that looked like it would be of interest to me, but these links don't tell you where they are going and they don't pertain to anything relevant. At least with the sidebar ads you know where you are going when you click them. I am never going to click on a highlighted word link again.