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!