Bone scan next week

Went and saw my doctor this morning to discuss my left leg x-ray results (finally!). If nothing was wrong, the report would have come back "tibia and fibia normal". Mine didn't. It came back with a long paragraph of very scary medical lingo that basically equates to "your tibia and fibia are FUCKED UP"!! Seems that there is extensive hardening (scary "sclerosis" word in there somewhere), evidence of extensive stress, hardening, lateral thickening, etc, etc. And fracture. Somewhere in there, something has fractured and healed badly, possibly more than once. Thus the pain.

My doctor has ordered me to have a bone scan on that leg, which actually sounds like a neat procedure. It's a nuclear scanning technique rather than X-ray-based. They inject a radionucleide into your body and it permeates into the bone, acting as a tracer for areas of bone which are healing or broken down. A gamma-ray detector picks up the nucleide and creates an image. Cool!!! The whole thing takes 3 hours - injection then wait 2 hours until the nucleide goes through your body, and then 45 min for the scan itself.

The problem with this is that I now know that it's not a soft-tissue area and that anything high-impact is just making the problem worse. Which means Muay Thai is out for a while. I figure I can still do boxing training, as long as I don't kick or pivot on the left leg. Boxing should be fine. I'll talk to Kru Bob on Saturday - he's back from Cambodia/Thailand today. Biking should be ok though - it's not load-bearing. Squash is out. Ball hockey is out.

But really, what can be done for a fracture? Other than staying off it?

The afternoon was quite an experience. I learned something today: all people are not equal. Certainly not in the eyes of the overlords who have control over the purse strings. If an overlord can get away with keeping the purse strings tightly knotted, they will, even if it means perpetuating an inequality. If that overlord is asked to put their underlings on an even playing field with the rest of the nation, they get very defensive and angry. It's amazing actually. As an underling, I tend to feel very angry when a known inequality is being ignored, no effort made to make it right. Right now, I'm mad. Incredibly pissed off that bullshit is being ignored. But we will make it right. There's strength in numbers.