Hi All,

Today I hobbled in the podiatrist office and told him I thought I had a stress fracure in one of the bones on the top of my left foot. He did the x-rays and he said my diagnosis was correct, so I didn't need him. I said, "well, I knew what it was, but not how to mend it."

He showed me the x-ray which showed a shadow around the broken bone. He said it takes at least two weeks for the shadow to appear on the x-ray and that the cure was to put a positive and negative charge on opposite ends of the bone. That creates electricity which causes advanced calcium growth, that eventually surrounds the broken part and mends it together. Then he said our whole bodies are electric. I knew that part too. I also have to wear an orthopedic sandal which is mostly a shoe with lots of velcro.

At first I was wondering if the term "stress shadow" was borrowed from medicine to seismology and secondly if it would be possible to mend a broken fault by giving it a huge dose of electricity. Part A, is probably possible, but part B I suppose not likely.

And last, but surely not least, since we are indeed electric human beings I don't know why it would be so difficult to accept that the sound some of us human's hear is an electrical sound generated by earthquake faults. So those of you who tend to be disbelievers or fence hangers, the truth is closer than you think. IMHO.

Petra