Most of you have suffered through looking at me suffering these last two years. You have seen me limping around, and doing things that caused some pain. Well today I have some answers.
Its not like I have not been looking for some answers. I have been to doctors and a chiropractor, massages and therapy.
Yes, we did know I have some deteriorating discs in my lower back but my back has felt fine. The problem was in my hip, (or so they told me) My back was sending displaced "referred" pain into a band around my upper thigh. Its all in the back! They say.
NOTHING took away the pain. Fed up. I got an MRI. MRI disclosed that I have degenerative hip disease. (we all do...kinda/sorta...over 55, by the way) Plus fluid in my hip. Spurs.
A hip replacement doc said I should not have hip replacement because I need to stave that off for as long as possible. You can only get two of them and they do wear out!
Live with the pain for as long as possible. Removing the fluid is too temporary.
I went to a fluid removal doctor who decided that before she started sticking needles in my hip and sucking out crap, I needed to a see a muscle specialist, a micro muscle surgeon. So in between all these seminars I trekked to see all these guys. The muscle doc did a simple sonogram on my pelvis area!
He told me he knew what I had. He found a bad, grade 2 tear in the Psoas muscle and a tear in the Rectus Femorus muscle on the top of my thigh. I did not let it heal and just make it worse with working out and teaching. I have been abusing it for two years! It could never heal. I tore it. I actually remember when it happened. When it started. Ground fighting. I thought it was my back jacking with me.
Muscle surgery is required. But, surgery is not possible for me until December the 7th. I have too many trips coming up! There are 300 police officers preregistered in Berlin next week at a special camp. That's right, 300! And a few USA seminars, plus a big one in Holland and a trip to the London, England which includes teaching at the London Police Academy. I HAVE TO GO!
These muscles..this is where I have always felt the pain and where previous doctors have sort of ignored that, saying it was referred pain from the small of my back. You might ask - why in hell did these others not see it? Because these specialists see only what they see. You know what a chiropractor works on. What a hip replacement doctor works on. Their thing. (But the chiropractor did help me in other ways. He did a good job and he actually referred me to all these other doctors! So, Dr. Ken Wilson guided me on and saved me in the end)
The Psoas Muscle! Please, please read this in case this happens to you!
http://www.squidoo.com/psoasThe Rectus Femoris. Please read so you will know of this.
http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/front/frontthigh/recfemrupture.htmI will absolutely have hip/bone problems in the near future. I've seen the evidence and I have the spurs raking across the muscles already. I do have hip arthritis. Back arthritis. You remember the Situs brothers? Arther and Burr (old joke stolen from one of my best detective partners-Danny McCormick). When the Situs Brothers come a knocking? Don;t answer that door.
So the rest of 2010 I will be biting the bullet and soldering on. Then on December 7... just back from the UK...this Day of Infamy...I will be "surgicalized." 6 to 8 weeks off for Christmas and most of January. What will I do? Maybe finish that Jack Kellog sequel? Start my rock band? NO exercise they say. Laying about like a sot.
Then back for Feb. 2011. Spitting out the bullet. Might train for the UFC!
Shitfire, I 'll only be 59!
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