As I rolled the dice in a game of Monopoly, a searing pain shot through my elbow and I could no longer bend or straighten it.
My eyes teared up from the pain and frustration, but I didn’t want my seven-year-old daughter, Amelia, to be alarmed, so I asked her to roll the dice for me.
I didn’t know it at the time, but my elbow had partially dislocated.
In fact, partial dislocations — or subluxations — had been happening
It’s a sad truth that getting older comes with an increased risk of health problems.
Some find that over the age of 40 their eyesight starts to decline, while wear-and-tear arthritis can creep up after 45.
But before you or your GP put your symptoms down to ‘just age’, read these women’s salutary tales, told to Angela Epstein, about how their serious health problems were initially blamed on the fact they were ‘getting older’.
