Lying rather uncomfortably on the examination table while facing the painfully bright ceiling lights, I 
fidgeted nervously, desperately trying to ignore the gloominess of the situation.I attempted to focus on 
staying warm in the bitterly cold room, but the events of just a few months prior kept running through 
my head--the intense pain, my overwhelming fear, and the frantic scrambling of surgeons and nurses in 
the Emergency Room.The doctors told me I had broken a vertebra in my lower back.