"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "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.
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>> 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.
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> I remember when that happened Evelyn...ghastly.
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> Cheri


I am so paranoid of falls and broken bones now, you can't believe it.

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Best Regards,
Evelyn

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