windyshores, thank you for your sympathy. I am sorry you lost your mom as well. It's so hard. Any now I am afraid of dogs when I have always loved them and was planning to rescue one. Never had a dog before and thought eventually I would. Not sure about that now. I am relieved too with taking teriparatide working out good. I think I would have already experienced common side effects by now, right? It's been a week.