Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall addresses Osteoporosis in UK

Camilla has taken a leadership role on osteoporosis in the UK. She is quoted as follows:

My mother was only 72. In those days, osteoporosis, a crippling bone disease, was seldom discussed, rarely diagnosed and usually attributed to old women with so-called Dowager’s hump. My family and I watched in horror as my mother shrunk in front of our eyes.

She lost about eight inches in height and became so bent she was unable to digest her food properly, leaving her with no appetite at all. The local GP was kind and sympathetic, but he, like us, was able to do little to alleviate the terrible pain Mama suffered so stoically.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2053086/Camilla-Duchess-Cornwall-I-watched-horror-mama-died-slowly-agony-osteoporosis.html#ixzz1c2Km02YQ