Re: ortho appmt.

Just remember....they call it "practicing" medicine. Sigh.

DeeTee

"d'huit" <threecedars1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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saw my ortho on thursday. something must have gone amok, cuz my xrays
showed almost no healing, just a bit of calcification above and below
where
it should be, none in the break itself. what happened to the almost
healed
broken bone xray, from just 3 weeks after i broke this leg? i just don't
get this. my bone healing seems to be going backwards. i'm wondering if
his xray machine is properly calibrated? natch. it can't be me!<smile>

my orthopod said that by february he will call this broken bone an
"official" non-union. said 6 months makes it "official". struck me
funny -
sounds like something we are supposed to celebrate, doesn't it?LOL

we/he discussed surgery - pins and screws with a bone graft. he was
speaking of soon. i dismissed it, cuz this isn't an important leg bone
and
the break isn't in a critical location. (and because i just don't want to
go there.) he agreed. he said we'll see how it goes in february. said
we
won't worry about it too much unless pain and swelling becomes an issue.
he
said i don't have to wear the aircast anymore, cuz it isn't helping and
the
bone ends aren't going anywhere they shouldn't be--that's the good news.
:-\

i sorta round about told him that i didn't think much of his "take tums"
suggestion from the last appmt. and suggested it wasn't a good option to
tell his patients about. told him that tums doesn't have any vitamin d in
it to help absorb the calcium. also told him that people my age, who live
at
this latitude, often have vitamin d deficiencies. he said i was right
and
said he was originally from arizona and forgot about that fact. asked me
what i recommended and take. i started LOL. i still think that is funny,
since what i've been taking doesn't appear to be working for me.

anyway, i lived with a femoral non-union for more than 7 years. this
broken
bone is not as important as a femur, so i guess i can live with this.

kate




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