Because I haven’t had a significant fracture in decades, I feel like the fragility of my bones has been more of an abstract concept than something visible and tangible to the people around me.
I have Osteogenesis Imperfecta or “brittle bone disease”.
I’ve broken around forty bones over the course of my life—most of them pre-puberty.
People can imagine what…
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