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    How often do we go through life believing that we are invincible?  We take so many

things for granted, especially our health.  We wander around as if we are going to live

forever and nothing bad is ever going to occur.  Yet, awful things do happen.  There

 are circumstances that enter our lives and we have no control over them. How we

 respond to those situations either causes us to fall apart or makes us strong. 

    I had to have a physical for the new job that had just been offered to me.  After the

 physical the doctor suggested that I have a bone density test.  I did not think that would be a problem; after all, I knew I was healthy.  I watched my diet, I exercised, drank plenty of water, and took my daily doses of vitamins.  What could be healthier than that?  I had always tried to take care of myself, but I soon found out that everything I had been doing right, did not matter.

    The results of the bone density test had come back.  I sat in the doctor’s office, and I could not believe what I was hearing.  It was not as if she said I had cancer, but still, I was dumbfounded.  The test results had to be wrong.  I was healthy in every way; at least, I had thought I was.  This could not be happening to me.  I was being told that I had osteoporosis.  Hearing this put me in a state of shock and disbelief.

    Never in a hundred years would I have believed that I would be diagnosed with such a dreaded disease as this.  How could my bones be so brittle, when I felt so strong? A decision that I had made in my early forties came back to haunt me.

    I had to have a hysterectomy due to uterine fibroids, and I had opted not to take any HRT’s (hormone replacement therapy).  I felt that the side effects would end up being worse than any other result that might happen.  Had the doctors explained to me that I could end up with osteoporosis; my decision might have been different.  Now, I was faced with a new enemy to overcome.