I Was Dissolving From the Inside — Vitamin D and Bone Loss After 50
The Fall That Almost Ended Everything It was a Sunday morning, about two years ago. I was walking down the stairs in my apartment building — the same stairs I'd taken thousands of times — when my foot slipped on the edge of a step. Not dramatically. Just a small misstep, the kind that happens to everyone. But instead of catching myself and moving on, I felt a sharp crack in my wrist as I grabbed the railing. Not a break — a fracture. A hairline fracture in my left wrist from gripping a metal railing too hard during a minor stumble. At the emergency room, the doctor looked at the x-ray and then looked at me. "This is a very minor impact for this kind of fracture," he said. "Have you had your bone density tested?" I hadn't. I was fifty-seven years old, and it had never occurred to me — or any doctor I'd visited — to check my bones. Bone density tests are something women get. Osteoporosis is a woman's disease. That's what I believed. Tha...