My mom-in-law broke her arm last night. Playing soccer in the dark with a bunch of undergraduates (well, it was on a well-lit field, and there were other people there, not just undergrads, but still). She's 70 ( Read more... )

My mom-in-law (much beloved by me) is in the ER with an apparently broken hand. No further updates are available at this time.

Well, I did go to PT this morning. It turned out to be the dumbest thing I did all day, on a day which included driving in frozen rain.
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First, a word about the icon, so you know I know a little something about orthopedics and pain. This is an x-ray of a foot which has undergone subtalar arthrodesis, which is a medical way of saying "scrape the surfaces off of two bones and join them together with a screw". It's about as painful as it sounds. This is what was done to my right ( Read more... )

I'm a medical mystery. This is not a good position to be in. I have a list of symptoms, and I've taken a huge number of tests (most of which have -oscopy in their name), and I have NO diagnosis and no prognosis. And it is getting worse. ( Details )