hi seasons
and all!...while I sit here typing like nothing happened! I guess it comes with age and stuff!
Yes a hip x-ray and a knee x-ray. I have no hip, basically, as I have a non-union which means a space between the shaft and the ball of the femur. I cannot read x-rays but the shaft was 'white' on the x-ray (I saw before Dr. Leung, {Female} came back.) I had to ask, "Where is the ball?" and there it was, a little malnourished looking gray circle sitting in the curve of the shaft. The knee aches/pains because the bottom (distal end) of femur is working in the socket but has no attachment at the top (proximal end)---just wants to wander through my nerves and muscles.
It will take exten$ive surgery to rejoin, but if the ball is dead? ..That's what is looked like to me, and I have been reading about bone necrosis.
Holy SH*T! I'm dying "A piece at a time", like Johnny Cash smuggling out a car in that song!
She said it doesn't matter about trying to therapize my external rotation of my knee. It will always be that way. All this therapy for internal rotation is good but not an answer with what we're working with. I can do whatever *I* want that makes ME comfortable, doesn't matter if I sit crooked or straight or what. This is it! I was sent for a blood test in case of an infection (which had crossed my mind when the pain increased) and am to call on Monday to find out! And I told her I wanted nothng higher than Tylenol Extra Strength for pain, but there could be an anitibiotic again! (Yes Mo2---take probiotics--if)
(I ought to put in here that I have been told two different ways, each by a separate person, on how I ought to sit, as well as how to place, and not place, my leg when in bed. They don't know I don't have a hip!)
The volunteers, many, as this hospital is one bigt B*tch of a thing, under expansion, (How did I ever escape for as long as I did last April?) were both women and women talk. They both have areas and one took me to the next area, on the way to the laboratory and each asked if this was my 'chair. I said "Yes" and they said if I didn't have it marked I had better, as the hospital was short of chairs and any running loose are grabbed........AHA! So the hospital DID steal my damaged 'chair!. which....... took so long for me to get a loaner as promised if I turned over the damaged 'chair. No Could do! So used an 11 year old chair of mine for long enough to infect my incision from the tire, then came the loaner and I was already infected from a "dirty tire" and the infection is what rendered the titantium useless, so it had to be removed and it was the titanium that would have closed the gap for proper healing--Who is at Fault?
I say the Insurance Comapny, on driver's behalf, for not bringing me a loaner chair when I needed it, while they awaited return of my damaged chair, that while I was out of it, disappeared, and I said time and again that I saw to it that it was brought into Emergency with me. Then when it was all clear to me I told the rep, before leaving the hospital. I've written my lawyer already and I'll bet he's furious, but will fight even harder with this information when he receives the Dr.'s records.
....and so it goes....the continuing story of a wronged woman, *weep weep* for another conversation piece in my dysfunctional family!
xx
Izzy
*Now I will search about infections rendering titanium useless.*
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