"Evelyn" > wrote in message
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> I was walking through a parking lot on my way to a club meeting in a
> restaurant, and there was a pot hole full of gravel. My foot turned and
> slid and down I went, falling forward. I tried to catch myself with my
> right arm and it shattered the shoulder in a compound fracture. The top
> of the humerus bone was broken off, and another piece ripped off and was
> pulled across the chest. It was two surgeries, months of unbearable
> agony, many months of physical therapy, and for the rest of my life I will
> only have 50% mobility of that arm. You don't want to know what a lousy
> settlement I got for it either. It was pitiful. And yes, I am an
> artist. A bad deal all around.
>
> I understand that Actos has been associated with brittle bones. I was on
> Actos for a couple of years before it happened. Don't know if that
> affected it any. I do have osteoporosis, however, which I found out last
> year for sure. This injury happened in the fall of 2004.

I remember when that happened Evelyn...ghastly.

Cheri