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The woman on the phone said she was a nurse. \u201cMs. Barber, I\u2019m calling from your HMO. I just wanted to let you know we\u2019re writing a prescrip\u00adtion for you\u2014it\u2019s a bone-restoration medication. Your scan results show that you have osteoporosis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clunk<\/em>. I dropped my laundry basket, heavy with one more load before our vacation to Colorado. \u201cOsteoporosis?\u201d I sputtered. She must have the wrong Karen Barber. No way I could have osteoporosis! I was young\u2014well, not old, anyway\u2014the picture of health.<\/p>\n

The nurse, apparently unaware that this was the first I\u2019d heard the news, launched into an explanation of how to take the pills. \u201cIn the morning, on an empty stomach\u2026\u201d Her voice faded in my mind. Osteoporosis?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019d had a bone-density scan a month before, but only because my general practitioner insisted\u2014something about standard procedure after menopause. But osteoporosis? That was an old person\u2019s disease, right? I power walked two and a half miles each day!<\/p>\n

The only reason I\u2019d even been in the doctor\u2019s office was to get checked out for an upcoming mission trip to Honduras. Frail old people did not take mission trips to Honduras. Surely there was a mistake.<\/p>\n

The nurse, however, referred to the exact date I\u2019d had my scan. She asked if I had any questions. Too stunned to think, I mumbled no and hung up. I stared at the laundry, piled high in the basket.<\/p>\n

Every year my husband, Gordon, our three boys and our daughter-in-law spent a week at a cabin in the Colorado mountains. Everyone else skied\u2014I didn\u2019t know how\u2014and I took long walks on the mountain roads. What did this mean, osteoporosis? That I was too frail for trips like that?<\/p>\n

Come on, I was only 54. Gordon and I had so many plans now that our youngest was about to leave for college. I exercised every morning\u2014walking and praying\u2014drank plenty of milk, ate yogurt, took calcium supplements. I hadn\u2019t broken a bone since I was five years old. Not fair, God. I\u2019m too young for this!<\/em><\/p>\n

A few days later we left for Colorado. I didn\u2019t fill the prescription and barely mentioned the nurse\u2019s call to Gordon. No sense worrying him, especially if this all turned out to be a big mistake.<\/p>\n

Besides, the nurse had said something about stomach upset as a possible side effect. I certainly didn\u2019t want that<\/em> on vacation. I tried to put the whole thing out of my mind.<\/p>\n

At the cabin, though, I found myself feeling irrationally fearful. I had toyed with the idea of taking skiing lessons and joining the others on the slopes. What if I fell? Would my bones snap? Well, I could at least try some sledding. I looked at my boots by the door.<\/p>\n

Fear surged again and for a moment the entire outdoors loomed like an endless danger zone, a world of potential falls and bone breaks. I flopped down on the sofa and turned on the TV. A single phone call had accomplished what 54 years of life had not. Suddenly I felt old.<\/p>\n

Well<\/em>, I thought when we got back home, I am not dealing with this now<\/em>. Each day I found a new excuse not to go to the pharmacy. When I ran out of excuses, I decided to confront my doctor.<\/p>\n

I would tell him about my healthy active lifestyle and he would say, \u201cOf course, Ms. Barber, you don\u2019t need medication. There must have been some mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

The doctor listened then fixed me with a patient but pointed look. \u201cMs. Barber, there\u2019s no other way to put it. You have osteoporosis.\u201d He drew a picture: two circles, one filled with dense, crosshatched lines, the other with just a few lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are normal bones,\u201d he said, pointing to the full circle. \u201cLots of bone mass here, which in a young woman\u2019s body is constantly being replenished. After menopause, though, estrogen levels go down and the body stops replacing bone mass so reliably.\u201d He tapped the other circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, I\u2019m young!\u201d I protested. \u201cI take calcium pills.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOsteoporosis affects women of all ages,\u201d he replied, \u201ceven some men. And the fact is, people who have it need supplementation to help their bodies absorb calcium. Often you can\u2019t replace bone mass you\u2019ve lost. But you can keep what remains\u2014if<\/em> you take the medication.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dejected, I dragged myself to the pharmacy. The crowning insult came with the pharmacist\u2019s instructions. I would have to take the pill first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, then eat nothing and remain upright for half an hour. What did that mean? No breakfast? Could I still take my walks? I was becoming an old lady tethered to her pills!<\/p>\n

The next morning I woke up and looked in the medicine cabinet. The orange pill bottle stared back at me. I had spent the previous evening poring over the instruction sheet and looking up the medication online.<\/p>\n

Lots of unpleasant side effects, especially the stomach upset. I had a meeting at church. Best not to risk feeling sick. I\u2019ll start tomorrow<\/em>, I thought, and closed the cabinet.<\/p>\n

The next day was the same, and the day after that. Always some reason to postpone. The pills greeted me each morning, silent ambassadors from the land of old age. I\u2019d stare at them, waver and close the cabinet.<\/p>\n

One misty spring morning, I left the house for my 6:00 a.m. walk. I liked to pray on these walks, a different kind of prayer on each section. I glided through our woodsy backyard, smelling the damp earth.<\/p>\n

I crossed a bridge over a creek and climbed a hill past some tennis courts to the road. The road was where I switched to thankfulness prayers\u2014not asking God for anything, just thanking him for what I already had, and the blessings I knew I would continue to receive. I thanked him for Gordon, for the boys, our house, the beautiful morning.<\/p>\n

And, suddenly, without quite realizing it, I found myself thanking him for those osteoporosis pills. The pills?!<\/em> Yes, the pills. My prayer rolled on. Thank you, God, for my doctor watching over me so wisely. For the scan machine that found this problem with my bones. And for supplying a way to fix it. You take such good care of me.<\/em><\/p>\n

The mist was lifting, the sun just illuminating the road with soft, daffodil-colored light. I felt a warmth inside of me too, some small but profound shift. All this time I had been regarding these pills as my enemy, an unfair, unwanted sign of advancing age, of mortality, of lost youth.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what they were at all. They were a gift, a life-giving gift. I didn\u2019t need to fear them. I knew I should be grateful for them. Indeed, just thinking of them that way\u2014as something to be thankful for\u2014drove out my fear.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t afraid of the pills, I realized. I was afraid of growing old. I was in denial of the most basic plan God had laid out for us, of a journey that began and ended with him.<\/p>\n

The mist disappeared and the sun shone on me brightly. I finished the walk, entered the house and made straight for the medicine cabinet.<\/p>\n

Today, nearly a year later, I take my medication regularly, and have suffered not a single side effect. Gordon and I recently got back from a European cruise\u2014our empty-nester dividend.<\/p>\n

Am I old? I think about that question differently now. God knows the number of my years. And he\u2019s giving me what I need to make the most of them. Just like he always has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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