Sorry, I'm back now

Well I had a rough week last week. I had s doctors appointment with my orthopedic doctor and he told me some news that I just wasn't expecting. I went in to talk about my back and ended up talking mainly about my hips. Well my right hip to be exact. Due to the cancer and tumors in my bones they have weakend my hip bones and I need surgery. They want to do the surgery before it actually breaks. The doctor feels it would be better because its harder to put something together thats in a million pieces than just to reinforce something thats about to break. I understand why they want to do this but its just hard to take in the fact that this cancer is taking a toll on my body. I'm a fighter and I'm not good with defeat. This is just a little stumble in the road to recovery, at least thats how I see it. I will have a stronger hip so that I can get around better than I have. They want me to stay off my leg, which is hard because I already don't get around as much as want, but I'm trying. Lets see how it goes...

The Search Continues

So now I make my first appointment to an orthopedic doctor. It didn't take me long because a few months earlier I had seen one for my wrist. I now wonder if that pain in my wrist a few months back had anything to do with all of this pain I was feeling now. Was it a sign? All I can do now is wonder. Well I saw the doctor and he did some X-Rays but he didn't see anything. He knew I was in severe pain so he suggested I get a bone scan. I was self-employed so like many self-employed I had no insurance. So I had to wait about a week to get the money together for a bone scan. A bone scan can detect osteoporosis, cancer, and a couple of other things, so I was told. When he even mentioned cancer I was like well I'm sure its not that, but lets see what this test shows us, because I was definitely in pain and something was wrong. I got the results back about a week later and he told me I had trauma to my rib cage. He asked if I had been in a car accident or maybe been kicked in class. I taught TaeKwonDo for a living so he thought maybe I had gotten injured while teaching. I explained to him that nothing had happened to me and that there had to be another explanation for the trauma showing in the bone scan x-ray. Well since we had to no explanation the next thing would be to get some CAT Scans done. This would look deeper into my organs and bones. Of course this was gonna cost some more money that I didn't have. Well I had to go to Florida with my sister for about a week, so I put it off until I came back and I figured this would give me some time to also figure out where I was gonna get all this money for these new tests. They were double what the bone scan cost, and I didn't know what I was gonna do. So in pain I drove to Florida with my sister and drove back alone. I can't believe it now that I know what was wrong. If I would've known what was wrong with me I would have never made that trip, but things happen for a reason. I came back with my sisters car, whose car payment I was taking over and if I hadn't done that I don't know how I would've been getting around these last 10 months with a wheelchair in tow. Anyways I get back and some good friends of mine lend me the money to get these tests done asap. They were very concerned and knew that I was also very worried because I had never in my life been sickly, never been in a hospital except the day I was born, never had a broken bone in my body, or any type of surgery or anything outside of a cold. Something was definitely wrong and I needed answers, quick!

So Now What?

So the search began for cause of my sudden pain. I first went to a general practitioner because I thought maybe I was having heart issues and the tightness I was feeling was not a muscle but my heart. Well the doctor checked my heart, my blood pressure, lungs, etc.. Everything sounded good and seemed well, but the doctor said maybe with the exercising I had inflamed my chest cavity. Which I never heard of but I'm not the doctor. So I was prescribed some anti-inflammatories, 800 milligrams of ibuprofen and rest, but nothing else. I did this for about a week before I decided to consult with a chiropractor because now suddenly my pain was traveling to my back. I didn't understand how this had happened because since my chest had started hurting I was taking it very easy on the exercise stuff when it came to my upper body. I started feeling a really sharp stabbing pain right in the middle of my back. Now my chest and my back were hurting, what was up? I started going to the chiropractor and whenever I got adjusted or whatever it felt sooo good, but the pain would come back later on. So now laughing, coughing, sneezing and deep breathing was feeling like I was being stabbed in my chest and on top of that my back felt like it constantly needed to be popped. I didn't know what to do. So after seeing the chiropractor for about 3 weeks my chiropractor suggested I see an orthopedic doctor for my pain, because nothing was getting better.

The Beginning

So 10 months ago I was diagnosed with Stage IV Metastasized Breast Cancer. I was in shock to say the least. A few months prior I suddenly started having chest pains, but not like heart symptoms, but literally my chest plate was in pain. I had been working out very hard with a trainer since the beginning of the year, so because this pain came on from one day to the next, it seemed, I coughed it up to just being really sore from working out. I thought I must have done too much weight on the flys or pull downs, or something. I believed I might have pulled a muscle in my chest or something but I never expected what I was about to encounter and deal with. I waited about a week before going to a doctor. I didn't wait long because I figured this soreness should be gone and I should start feeling better, but it wasn't happening. So I began to get concerned that maybe I did pull or tear a muscle in my chest, which was gonna suck if I needed some type of surgery. Now I wish thats all it would've been.