Re: Gloves and Bench Pressing

On Sep 1, 10:21 am, Omelet <omp_ome...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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But his hands looked like something out of a horror film. Poor dude!

What was the name of that disease? Paget's!

http://www.arthritis.ca/types%20of%20arthritis/pagets/default.asp?s=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paget%27s_disease_of_bone

I may have mentioned this in an earlier post to MFW, but when I was a
pill jockey for GNC a lovely little old lady entered the store. While
she was checking out with her items, I timidly asked her about her
arms. Was afraid I'd offend her, but couldn't resist asking just what
had happened to her. Om, you say, "like something out of a horror
film," well the woman was not scarred or scaled or whatever you might
imagine a horror film would display, but her arms were like - at least
from their shape - slim and twisted tree limbs. It was incredible.

She explained that her bones had softened and then become hard again,
only in a much different shape than prior to the softening. It wasn't
especially ugly, but it was certainly very unusual. She might have
been a little over 5 feet tall and thin. Pleasant looking older woman,
but her arms were simply amazing. Not a horror film, but more like
what might have been an episode of Star Trek.

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Curt

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