Many years ago, the feet of many young Chinese girls were tightly bound, resulting in crippling broken bones. This was considered culturally desirable and even erotic, and was said to make girls better able to make marriages profitable to themselves and their families.
This was largely an "upper class" practice, as it rendered women unable to engage in many activities and required servants to do many necessary tasks of daily life.
Foot binding is addressed in the novel Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lynn See, set in 17th Century China. This practice gradually ceased, and was at least nominally eliminated under Communism.
I cannot help but think about this as I try to recover at least some remnants of the active life I enjoyed before several vertebral fractures resulting from the medical mismanagement of the osteoporosis drug Prolia left me with pain when walking, standing or even sitting up. 
And see: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3227755/Chinese-woman-84-recalls-agony-having-feet-broken-bound-just-six-years-old-women-big-flat-feet-laughed-at.html
The "privilege" I enjoyed of being treated at a famous university and being given an fabulously expensive (albeit quite hazardous) drug for osteoporosis was similarly more likely to happen to someone in comfortable economic circumstances, much like the well-born girls in China whose may have even agreed to have their feet bound and broken.
I think about these girls at times when the pain is really bad.
And, as I consider the role of Prolia in destroying my active life, this thought resonates!
Before my back broke -- thanks to the medical mismanagement of Prolia, I could do the following things easily, and without pain.
1. Take care of my daily needs, including shopping for food, managing other activities of daily life with ease.
2. Spend enjoyable retirement time with friends and family, visit their homes, attend important family events (weddings, funerals, etc.), enjoy my grandchildren, go out for dinner with friends, entertain from time to time.
3. Travel - one of the things I most enjoyed in retirement. Visiting new places on my own or with friends, enjoying a few winter weeks in warmer climates and summers at a family place in the Indiana Dunes.
4. Getting about the city on foot, by public transit, and driving my car.
5. Actively engaging in community activities, political campaigns, and good causes of various kinds.
None of these things are possible for me now, at least not without so much pain as to cancel much or all of the enjoyment they might offer.
So what can I do? I can do everything I can to warn others about how Prolia and its mismanagement can destroy active living, and turn an enjoyable middle and old age into a kind of hell on earth. I am stuck in this painful trap of a broken body forever, but if I can keep even one other person from falling into the same trap I'll have done my job.
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