An Unopened Medical File From a Colorado Lake House Clinic

where one of the pale blocks looked flattened, its edges jagged and compressed.

“But this is what caught my attention,” Dr. Patel said. “Do you see this deformity in the fourth lumbar vertebra?”

Caroline leaned over my shoulder, her grip tightening on the black rubber handles of my wheelchair.

“It looks crushed,” Caroline said.

“It is a severe compression continue reading …