It's only 10:30pm, and this night owl is very tired. Why? I guess it's probably related to the early doctor's appointments I've had these past two days. Today, I returned to the same office as yesterday in order to meet with yet another doctor--a rheumatologist. She was incredibly kind and very personal, which made the super early appointment a bit more bearable. She wasn't able to pull up my x-rays from yesterday, but she seemed to think that it would be a good idea for me to have steroid treatments for one week before deciding on the surgery one way or the other. She said she has had some success treating people with this kind of a problem in that way, which would allow me to avoid surgery entirely. To that end, she is having a bunch of blood tests run on me to eliminate certain blood conditions that could cause this problem (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis), and I will have another appointment with her in the new year.
Despite all of that craziness and the fact that I'm tired, I just can't seem to will myself to sleep. I guess, to some extent, I'm looking forward to and fearful of what tomorrow holds. At a more reasonable hour, I'm going to have a trial injection in my hip (to see if Option #2 is even viable) followed by a MRI-anthrogram. I'm not exactly sure how this MRI will be different than the one I had, but, when I googled it, the images looked pretty cool. The aforementioned notwithstanding, my emotions are a mixture of excitement over the possibility that I might feel better, even if only temporarily, and fear of the possible pain and immobility that I will likely suffer for 48-hours after the injection. Keep your fingers crossed!
More updates soon...
Besito,
A
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