quick medical update

I am actually working on an epic post about our amazing Thanksgiving weekend (spoiler alert: I do seem, after all, to be healing up okay!) but I wanted to post a follow-up after my meeting with the osteoporosis specialist. He thought my bone loss over the past 6 years (since the previous DEXA scan) and the bone-remodeling markers from my blood tests were worrying, and so I have just started taking alendronate sodium (Fosamax) which helps to prevent bone breakdown. He has also advised me to continue taking calcium, and to increase the vitamin D3 I take. If my bone stabilizes I should be okay; if not, there are some steroidal injections that can increase bone quality, but that are usually held in reserve because they can only be taken for a limited amount of time.

Contrary to the usual stereotype about doctors telling you not to run after a running-related injury, he said that it was a good thing I was a runner because that weight-bearing exercise probably helped keep my bone loss from being worse!