Bone Tuberculosis

Bones are the quietest part of you. They do not work loudly like the heart, they do not move restlessly like the intestine, they do not think like the brain. They carry. Simply carry. Day after day, year after year, an entire lifetime. They are the framework upon which everything else rests — your organs, your muscles, your upright posture, your capacity to stand in this world at all.

And it is precisely this framework that bone tuberculosis attacks. Not at the surface, not at the outer layers — but in the innermost place. Bacteria nest there, where you cannot look, and begin, quietly and slowly, to dissolve the substance that carries you. From the outside, everything may still look stable. From within, the hold is being worn away.