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On Sunday, August 31, 2025, I went to my local emergency room with terrible back pain. I wanted to drive 22 hours to see my mom and felt I needed some kind of Doctor's clearance. I had tried to pull up a locked window sash the previous week and thought that I had maybe slipped a disk. I had pain in my upper/mid back and in my lower back. The ER doctor ordered a CT of my upper back and an x-ray of my lower back. Nothing but a strange marble in my pleura in the upper back, but a compression fracture on my L3. That's what hurt. I dashed home to write my oncologist requesting that he order an MRI to see if cancer was causing the fracture. He made the appointment and a PET scan appointment to see if I had cancer anywhere else. I went to my local hematologist the day after Labor day, she brought me in first thing. "Did your oncologist give you a booster shot of the bone strengthener in early April? It is crucial to do that as t...