I can’t imagine having all this happening when you are still so young.
Many have advised driving. While driving is certainly easier on the body, driving is more dangerous than riding. Being pitched from a cart behind an uncontrollable horse results in a far more devastating accident.
Honor your son, stay whole for him. I think you doctor is the best judge of your capabilities.
On reading some of the posts, some of you shared meds you had been taking to deal with osteoporosis, could you share more about them please? Also, when you refer about a bone specialist, what kind of doctor would that be? I got diagnosed 2 years ago, due to a car accident that I was in. Due to my head injury and my back and neck pain, I was laid up for quite a while. Then immediately afterwards they were worried about some other major things going on with me, like they thought I had myastenia gravis, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer and possibly having strokes . needless to say, osteoporosis got put on the back burner while all the testing and everything was going on. My focus for the last 2 years has been to get better and get my life back. Fast forward to a month ago and my WHOLE world got turned upside down. Went to z Boston for a get away with hubby and 10 seconds after getting there I rolled my foot on their pavers, crashed to the ground and broke my foot. The break was bad enough that I had to have surgery, they needed to put a screw in and a plate. However, as they were putting the screw in, the bone started to disintegrate so they had to stop. They were able to finish that, but not the plate. I’m so freaked out on all of this it isn’t even funny. I had a bone density done a week ago, but they only did my hips. I don’t know why they wouldn’t do more areas of my body. Anyways, I’m freaking out, looking for insight and help. I would LOVE to start riding again, I used to do trail rides .I love horses and if it could help me to get my bone density back all the better. I used to play Camogie, but as that can be a contact sport I’m afraid to that I might get broke. Broken hip is a kiss of death. Any suggestions or recommendations you can give would be so truly appreciative. I want more to my life than feeling like I have to become the bubble girl. Thank you for listening
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