What a coincidence - my best friend since I was a toddler lives in Long Beach! You are smart to do a bleach treatment to your shoes when you get in. I leave my shoes at the back door when I come home from being out. Diabetes insipidus isn't really diabetes - it is a lack of anti-diuretic hormone - so your body keeps making urine more and more, you have constant thirst, and you crave only cold beverages. It is caused by damage to the pituitary gland usually. I've been off sugar for five years because of candida overgrowth caused by the steroids I have to take for adrenal failure. I don't blame you for not wanting to take Prolia. The night before they were going to give it to me, I went to that Facebook Osteoporosis Natural Remedies group - and two (2) women who had taken it and gotten osteonecrosis saw my post and spoke to me by phone about their experience. I will never take any of those bone-building drugs. It would be different if they worked. But the bone "growth" is only old, dead bone piled up on top of your real bones - and it all goes the minute you stop taking the drug. It looks good on a DEXA scan - but it is just dead bone. Lioness - it's been years since I thought about canning! Living in CA, we never really think about canning anymore - you can get whatever you want whenever you want it here! This is the first year I haven't been able to get pomegranates all year round. I have two pomegranate trees, two lemons, two Asian pear apples, and a fig tree! That's a lot of fruit for someone who can't eat anything but lemons and strawberries! I'm putting strawberries and peppers and bush beans out next week. I'm having a heck of a time finding my bush bean seeds! I put them where I wouldn't lose them! Thank you for thinking good thoughts for my parrot - I love her SO MUCH! I cannot imagine life without her. I keep hoping the sun will come out and she will perk up. I love Chester, the male, too - but The Baby (the female) has been my sweetie for 38 years (Chester is 36). I raised both from the time they hatched - I had their parents since I was 15 years old. The Baby is such a sweet bird - very affectionate - she is bonded to me. Regarding the boron - I have read that it is very necessary for bone growth and that it is safe up to 20 mg per day. I know there are some people who take doses much higher than that, but I'm not going to risk it. If I take 12-15 mg per day, my arthritis just vanishes. I was pretty good with 9 mg, but I was waking up in pain - so I increased it to 12-15 mg. It certainly is affordable. Wouldn't it be lovely if all of a sudden they figured out exactly what and how much we should take of each thing to regrow our bones? I read an article the other saying saying that taking Vitamin K2 (mk4, mk7) only increases bone growth by (I think they said) 2%. I'll take that 2%. In fact, I'd take it even if it just stopped me from losing any more bone. I wish I could get a DEXA scan tomorrow. My doctor wants me to wait until this pandemic isn't quite so hot. We just have to take it a day at a time - it will drive you crazy if you think of another year or two hunkered down. My bangs are so long - I can barely see where I am going. I really cannot cut hair! I may have to try. Desperate times call for desperate measures. What are you doing to pass the time? Once I have my garden in and my house all cleaned up, I will go back to making masks and I think I'll start a jigsaw puzzle - possibly I will crochet. Maybe I will go out there right now and plant my new rose.