For the first 2.5 weeks of summer, I spent time with Mom in the hospital. It all began last Thanksgiving weekend when she fell in the garden and ended up with a compound wrist fracture. Months later, she was still experiencing back pain but didn’t realize it was from a compression fracture in her lumbar (lower) spine. It wasn’t until her hospital stay that an X-ray confirmed the fracture—and the diagnosis of osteoporosis. And then I started thinking about it. I come from a long line of women...

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