Here we are deep in the thick of another COVID fall with All Hallows Eve just days away. Halloween will always be one of my favorite celebrations. It will be a bit different again this year. Traditional trick or treating and costume parties may be limited but that doesn’t mean you can’t have a spook-tac-ular celebration. Rather than lamenting about what you can’t do, be grateful for the things you can do. Get creative and have some serious, socially distant, safe fun!
BARE BONES
The Halloween celebration might be down to bare bones, but the fun can be ratcheted up a few notches. How about a creative spooky meal? One year John and I prepared spaghetti and eyeballs with witch finger breadsticks. Another year we started our meal with monster brain dip (guacamole inside a skull) and bat chips (tortillas cut with a bat cookie cutter.) We’ve had meatloaf shaped like a brain drizzled with blood (ketchup) and mashed potato ghosts. Gross, yes. Fun, YES!
SPEAKING OF BONES…
Yes, I have a skeleton hanging from a noose off our bedroom balcony. Mr. Bones is a challenge for me to assemble each year. The head, hands, pelvis, and feet are easy. The bones of the arms and legs take a bit more thought. Each year when I assemble him, it reminds me that our skeleton is actually a pretty complex piece of machinery.
DID YOU KNOW?
WWW.bidmc.org helped me with a few fun facts about the bones of a human body that might be of interest to you.
- The adult body has 206 of them.
- There are 26 bones in the foot.
- The hand including the wrist contains 54 bones.
- The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the skeleton.
- The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone.
- Arms are among the most commonly broken bones accounting for almost half of all adults’ broken bones.
- The collarbone is the most commonly broken bone among children.
- The only bone not connected to another is the hyoid, a V-shaped bone located at the base of the tongue.
- Bones are made up of calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and collagen as well as other minerals.
HDD
You may be wondering what HDD and diagnostic ultrasound have to do with bones and skeletons. The fact is that ultrasound cannot penetrate bone. It can only see the outer surface of bony structure and not what lies beneath. It can however produce pictures of muscles, tendons ligaments, nerves, and joints through the body.
When you and your provider determine diagnostic ultrasound is indicated, we will move our bones as fast as possible to take care of you. Call us at 505-350-3397.
Have a safe and fun Halloween!