Wednesday June 17,2009: Shoulder MRI results

Nothing horrible or earth-shattering. Continuing mild arthritis in my shoulder with a few small labral tears which can happen with aging and arthritis. I have to start the shoulder exercises regularly (in addition to all the knee ones) and go back in August.

Monday June 14, 2009

One more day to go to get the results of the shoulder MRI. I should know by this time tomorrow. Good news or bad news. COnsidering I wasn't called a few days afterward by the rheumy office (which is what happened back in Sept. 07 when an MRI scan showed 2 meniscus tears), I have my hopes up that it isn't anything more than a diagnosis of advancing arthritis, although it could also be a huge bone spur poking at my bicep tendon which is why it has gotten tendinitis several times. We'll see!
Meanwhile we attended a lovely wedding on Friday afternoon. I did wear heels for about 2 hours, after which I switched to my sneakers which I had in my purse. My ankles are feeling better but a couple of times a day at least, I've felt this kind of shocky electric feeling there, especially if I put my foot down wrong and my arch gets hit in the wrong spot. I see Dr. Gray on Friday afternoon and will mention it.
Twice in the last couple of weeks, I managed to jar my right leg, making the whole thing, the new knee and everything else. Youch. Left knee had some sharp pains last night. Surprise surprise (not). And my left hip has been aching since we got back from Boston. Urgh!
Meanwhile I got my itemized hospital bill which to me confirms that I had spinal anesthesia for my partial knee replacement, even though I had said I didn't want. I keep thinking perhaps I agreed to it when I was in LaLa Land and don't remember anything. Who knows! Wednesday marks 9 months, which is hard to believe. I'll be back tomorrow with the results of the scan.

Monday June 1, 2009: Shoulder MRI

I had the scan this morning. My head was in between 2 round things so I was the sandwich in a hamburger roll! But I could look out and see the wall where they had clouds painted. I used a spot on them as a focal point. And I managed to doze off. At one point, I remember waking up and moving my leg. At the end of the scan, the technician told me she did do one rescan because I moved, but apparently more than just my leg! I'm glad she didn't tell me while doing it that she was going to need to rescan something again! No headphones for the MRI room. It's through a speaker system. In the web site below (the practice's site), I had it in the middle picture labeled Open MRI but my head was where the person in the picture's feet are and my feet were where her head is. The bottom picture is of the extremity MRI which I've used for a knee and an ankle.

http://nerad.com/mri.htm

The disk with the scan will be delivered to the rheumy office. I don't need to pick it up so I won't get a sneak peak of the report. Hopefully, the rheumy PA will call me if there is something significant found on the scan, so I don't have to wait until June 16, which is when my next appointment is with her.