90 Degree Ankle

Compare this scan to the MRI of my ankle at this link. Better, eh? I placed my portable light box face down behind the film during scanning. A simple and effective trick. Why didn’t I think of it before?

“Intrinsically normal posterial tibial tendon.” The previous doctor went along with this! And they were both wrong, wrong, wrong. Four months, two doctors, six weeks of physical therapy — with a $180 co-pay — and here I am, starting all over again. If my ankle had been locked in the orthotic boot at a 90° angle back in July, I would have been able to run the Boston Marathon in April! Grrr…

My wife just suggested the radiologist must have viewed the film without a backlight, so it looked liked my first scan. HA! Wouldn’t doubt it. At least the money spent on the MRI was worthwhile, now that a competent clinician is involved.

5 thoughts on “90 Degree Ankle”

  1. OOHH, OW, OW! I can “empath” how bad that feels! except it’s my neck, or the sciatica I have on my left side (the Pain Clinic ablated the right side four years ago, and it’s STILL pain-free!) If I do a long speedwalk, like I did today (4 miles, yeah, that’ s nothing to you, but I just started up again), I usually hear about it from my entire left buttock down.

    One more thing: LEPROSY, MY GOD IT’S LEPROSY!!!!

  2. If you follow one of the white lines, you’ll see the bulge where the scar tissue and inflammation is.

  4. Ya can’t trust doctors these days (excluding Leslie, of course). Remember, my regular idiot OB/GYN (who I got assigned to when Tom’s insurance changed), thought it was OK to leave in my cantaloupe-sized fibroid, even though it made it nearly impossible to do #2, and made me PEE every two minutes! The thing was “huge” and I still have a lot of slack tissue down there, because the GOOD OB/GYN figured it had been growing along my C-section suture line (inside the womb) for many, many years.

  5. I neglected to state the diagnosis. Tendinosis. Tendinitis would have been fluid around the tendon. (Why is it tendon, then tendin? Don’t get it.) Tendinosis is scar tissue on the tendon. Thirty-three years of wear-and-tear from running.

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