Right Hip Surgery Tomorrow - 7/3/12

Surprise!!!!

Sorry that it has taken me sooooo long to tell y'all what's been going on with me lately. It all started back on June 13th......

June 18,2012
I went to see my oncologist this past Wendesday,June 13th, for my monthly Zometa infusion and check-up. The infusion went well,but the rest not so good. I told the doctor that I was still having pains in my hip,lower back and my right collor bone, sometimes bad, sometimes not. She sent me for some x-rays of the hip and clavicle. I had mentioned a couple of months back about my collor bone hurting then,but she got sidetracked with other things and I forgot about it because the pain went away. This time it felt bigger and was very sore in one spot. When the x-rays came back,she said there was a questionable spot on the hip and that the clavicle had been broken & healed. That I must have bruised it again in Chicago lifting Gurt's wheel-chair in & out of the house. I don't remember when or where I could have done anything that would have broken my clavicle in the first place?

My onc then set me up for another bone scan on Thursday,June14th, to get a better look at my right hip. She also set me up with an appointment to see my radiologist on June 20th about radiating my right hip. She also told me that my bone marrow was not producing enough to build up my bones,hence the Zometa. Dr. Goodwin told me back in the begining(Jan. 2011)when I was told I had bone mets that I can't be falling or I could break a bone, but how do I protect myself from breaking bones if they are so brittle that they break without me knowing about it? Are my bones that brittle? Well, I guess so!


June 22 2012
So, I saw my radiologist on Wed.,June20th, and he said,"between the x-ray and bone scan that my right femer/hip was so weakened that I could fracture that hip." He also said that if I fractured my hip,that hip replacement surgery would be the worst for me right now. He said that the femer had some "low spots"(I can't remember the medical term he used)in it and that he wanted to "stableize" the hip befor he radiates it because the radiation may make it weaker. He wants me to have surgery on my right hip to stablize the femer before radiation. I don't know what that intails,but I see the surgen on Wed.27th. They gave me cruches to keep the weight off my right leg & hip till the surgery.


July 2,2012
I saw the surgen,Dr. Bradley, on Wed. June 27th. He said that my right femer is 50% eroded up by the hip socket ball. He wants to put a Right Hip Trochanteric Femoral Nailing Rod in on July 3rd. He said that he would make an insision on my outer right hip and a small hole near the knee to screw the rod in. He said that I shouldn't be in the hospital more than a day or two and that I would be able to walk(putting wy weight on my right hip) right away. Very little or no phyical thepary,too. I suppose that means that I won't have to use cruches anymore.

Well Ladies, that's about all I have to tell you for now. Will be looking for the "Pink Buss" with a bunch of hungry,loud and "tipsy" Pinks making fools of themselves and others,who may or may not be getting arested, unless they have a good "get away driver" on board. LAUGHING OUT LOUDLY !!!!!!!

Love,Prayers and Healthy Thoughts to all my Pink Sisters.
Robert