Hello Sexy Shorts

I have been having a problem with my hip and lower right back for about 6 months now.  I started out with some massage and then a pain doc for some injections that didn't do anything.  Then I went to my primary care and got put on some anti inflammatory, muscle relaxants and a nerve pain drugs to see if I could get enough relief to make it through physical therapy.  I have been in pt for 3 months now and I go 3x a week.  I had a week and a half break over christmas and I actually started feeling a little better.  That's when I started to question that I was doing the right thing.  I kept thinking about the old adage "no pain, no gain" or "it always gets worse before it gets better"  but this was starting to get ridiculous.  I have been going along accepting the fate of my neck and shoulder pain as a fact of life so when the hip got added to the mix I cried "uncle" and decided to see if someone could heal me.

Nathan knows every doc in town and decided that I needed to see one of the ortho's that he likes and spent some time in residency with.  They were second year residents together.  I agreed because he has to put up with all my complaining and at least if the doc told me that I was crazy and the pain was all in my head I could move on.  Well the day finally came for my appointment.  After a long wait in the waiting room, I was escorted to the exam room where I was told to take off my pants and slip into these sexy shorts so that I could get x-rays and have my hip examined.  I literally started laughing out loud when the nurse handed them to me.  You've got to be kidding me?  This dr gets to meet Dr Ivey's wife for the first time in these things?  For real?  Do you like the nice air bubble the shorts make?  Pretty awesome.  You know what else happens in this hybrid type paper concoction while you are sitting on a plastic chair for an hour waiting to see the dr?  Sweat happens, that's what.  Lots of it.  It is especially nice when you stand up and have to peel the shorts away from your skin while said dr is looking at me waiting for me to get up on the exam table.

After the exam and he told me that it was definitely a problem with my hip and I was right to come in and see him.....thank goodness I'm not crazy...at least not for this reason.  We got to examine my x-ray together right there in the exam room on the very large computer monitor.  Do you know what shows up on an x-ray of your hips?  The distinct outline of your lady bits, that's what.  So know I get to look at my x-ray with my lady parts in HD with a colleague of my husbands while sitting next to him in my sexy shorts.  I was also happy to see that it appeared that my iud was in it's proper place and looking good.  Fantastic!  Could this day get any better? I guess I can be grateful that while he was jacking my leg all around trying to get it to hurt that I didn't let one rip because, let's face it, it coulda happened.  

Well, I get to endure an MRI on Monday and then we will discuss if I need surgery or if we want to try an injection in my hip.  After that we get to talk about my painful rice krispy sounding knees that need surgery to loosen my kneecaps so that I don't rub away all my cartilage.  Good times.  We are in the middle of trying to figure out our health insurance and what kind of coverage we want so this little revelation was not a happy one.  Surgery isn't cheap.  I asked my hubby if he was going to leave me because I am too expensive and broken and he said "at least I know you couldn't catch me!"  Hahahaha