July 8, 2010
Avascular necrosis is the death of bone tissue due to a lack of blood supply. Also called osteonecrosis, avascular necrosis can lead to tiny breaks in the bone and the bone's eventual collapse.
For reasons unknown, I have it and I could be on crutches for months. Let me express a great big crapola.
July 10, 2010
I’ve been wrestling with God all my life. I suppose it was only a matter of time before touched my hip.
Avascular necrosis.
It’s the death of bone tissue due to lack of blood. In more graphic layman’s terms, I’ve got a hip joint rotting in my left leg. It is extremely painful if I walk on it. It’s painful just to sand up, to move to joint at all. I’m taking vicadin, however you spell it for the pain. I’ve been on some kind of painkiller for six month now so I’m not sure how it would feel au natural, but I get twinges just sitting. So I’ve had a stroke. I’ve got a couple tears in my rotator cuff, a hernia, and now this.
A friend of mine would ask me, “What is God saying to you in all this?” Jackie thinks He’s telling me to finish my novel. For me, that came through loud and clear with the stroke. So other than things don’t necessarily only come in threes, I’m not really sure.
I am avoiding talking about the good possibilities, like after the touch comes the blessing. Maybe He’s about to bless my socks off and He’s telling me to get ready. I’ve been reminding Him a lot these days He promised not to give me anything to heavy to bear. Maybe he’s telling me I can carry a lot more than I think I can carry. Wait. Now that I think about it, that doesn’t fall into the good things category.
July 13, 2010
I’ve been dreaming of a new life. Me and Jackie chucking it all and movingt to Italy. Perhaps understandable since the life I’m living now involves all my recent medical irregularities. The newest one is my left hip joint beginning to rot inside my leg. Unfortunately this is not an exzadurate. The medical term is avascular nacrosis. It’s the death of bone tissue due to insufficient amounts of blood leading to deterioration and eventual collapse. In some cases, with treatment the bone can regenerate. At the other end you get a new hip. So I could be on my way to becoming bionic.
July 20, 2010
So what I actually have is called an impingement on my left hip. I also have one on my right hip but that’s not bothering me now. They’re going to treat it with a shot of steroids to the hip joint. If I was younger they would do arthroscopy surgery a shave the little lump of bone that’s screwing things up but, apparently, in us old folks, it has a tendency to make thing worse. So I have to get the shot every six months or so.
I’m scheduled for the injection on Aug 11. It’s a tricky shot and the have to do it through radiology so the can see were to place it. I forgot to ask the implication of getting radiated every six months. Right now I’ll assume it a very low level dose and I don’t have to worry about it.
They said I can’t do damage by walking on it and I’m under no restriction so, if I can stand the pain, I’m allowed to do it, which means I’m off the crutches. I’m going to try walking for a day or two and if that works I’m going to try a go back to work.
This is all very good news as the alternative is a new hip and six months of rehab before I could work. With this, I could be back to work in a few days and at worst in about a month.
Woo hoo, praise God, and all that good stuff.
