So if you find yourself with an interesting condition called Calcific Tendonitis you might just get to see your friendly neighborhood Orthopedic doctor see, and she places you carefully in the middle of a fluoroscope machine and then she pokes some kind of pain killer (thanks be to God) into an area of your shoulder that just seems like a 'wrong' place to put a needle of any kind see, and then she takes a bigger needle and messes around with the horse head nebula shaped mass of calcium and squirts some saline solution in there and tries to pull out some of that stuff see, and you sit there all Zen like because you figure screaming is bad manners and might scare off the next people in line see, but all of a sudden it's over and it really didn't hurt all that much considering what's just happened and they give you your clothes back and let you walk out into the waiting room as if nothing scary has happened to you in the back room see, so you don't freak anybody out that is sitting there reading Family Circle magazine and all see?
The only thing that made me nervous was the prescription for Vicodin she sent me off with.
So far, I don't need any. That's a good thing.
But it's nice to know it's in the medicine cabinet now innit?
My shoulder feels bruised a bit, but not traumatized. Evidently we skipped the cortisone step in this treatment and went straight for the horse head nebula. She said the cortisone in her experience with this condition is just temporary. Boom. Done. We hope. If not, the next step is surgery. This is a step I would like to avoid as I have never had one up till now and I would REALLY like to keep that trend going as long as possible.
See?
(No, I didn't get to SEE anything since I was left at home ALONE, unless you count that DOG. But it sounds boring anyway. What good is it bringing out the big needles when there's no screaming? Pfft.... I think that doctor is a quack.)
Whatever.
The only thing that made me nervous was the prescription for Vicodin she sent me off with.
So far, I don't need any. That's a good thing.
But it's nice to know it's in the medicine cabinet now innit?
My shoulder feels bruised a bit, but not traumatized. Evidently we skipped the cortisone step in this treatment and went straight for the horse head nebula. She said the cortisone in her experience with this condition is just temporary. Boom. Done. We hope. If not, the next step is surgery. This is a step I would like to avoid as I have never had one up till now and I would REALLY like to keep that trend going as long as possible.
See?
(No, I didn't get to SEE anything since I was left at home ALONE, unless you count that DOG. But it sounds boring anyway. What good is it bringing out the big needles when there's no screaming? Pfft.... I think that doctor is a quack.)
Whatever.