Bone Appetit!

I had a bone scan today--well, I guess yesterday, since it's 1203 AM now. Though my doctor thinks my recent hip pain is either arthritis or AI-related, she wants to be cautious.  (We seem to have a tacit agreement not to say the M word.) And since I'm always up for a quick shot of radioactive isotopes, I readily agreed.

For an old IV pro like me, the test was no big deal.  You get the tracer; you get a pedicure and have lunch work on your laptop for three hours; you drink a boatload of water; and then you lie still for the camera.  Easy enough.

The bed moves.  I know this now.

And then you wait.  For results that may not be conclusive.  I am having another glass of wine embracing the uncertainty.  

And Monday?  I get a bone-density scan.  So we can all know just how much I am falling apart.  Or to see if the Boniva is working.  One or the other.

Meanwhile, tomorrow I host Bunco. Yes, I said that. And more shamefully yet, there's a theme...Hawaiian Luau.  Which means I am up late making pineapple-upside-down cupcakes and char siu.  But this party did give me the opportunity to make yet another amazing scientific discovery.  I learned that drumettes are not the curiously small legs of misshapen chickens. As it turns out, they're part of the wing.  I know this because I am also making teriyaki drumettes.  When I asked the butcher if Safeway sold them, he said the bags of wings were 50/50 wings and drumettes.  Because, as I said, apparently a drumette is the first (or second?) part of the wing. I admit that is some smart marketing, but the upshot is that I probably will never eat another one.  Well, after tomorrow.

And finally, in other bone and chicken related news, KFC is now serving boneless chicken.  The Millennial Generation apparently prefers nugget-type food items.  I never eat there, so this is not a big issue for me.  But I really do prefer--and yes, it's irrational--when my meat doesn't look like the animal it once was.  Not my daughter, however.  When her 29-cent goldfish died, she looked at me and asked, "So do we eat it now?"

Mmmmm!