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KarenS

(4,074 posts)
Wed Apr 20, 2022, 10:21 AM Apr 2022

getting old,,,,

so I go to the doctor because I 'hurt' my back,,,,

and I end up finding out more than I bargained for,,,,

While I am healing from picking up something that was too heavy and just need to keep doing what I've been doing,,,, and having some physical therapy in a month or so,,,,,,

seems like I fractured a vertebrae in my back awhile ago (within the past 10 years) and she said that based on how my bones showed up in the xray I probably have osteoporosis,,,, jeez,,,,

so I am reading about it,,,,

My 90 year old Dad says "gettin old ain't for sissies:

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getting old,,,, (Original Post) KarenS Apr 2022 OP
They get you snowybirdie Apr 2022 #1
Once that barn door opens .... Diamond_Dog Apr 2022 #2
A physician friend once commented that when one gets tested, something will question everything Apr 2022 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Apr 2022 #4

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