So, today I finally got to go back to my orthopedist to find out what the MRI showed in my shoulder. Good or bad, you'd think the news would have ended the story, wouldn't you?
Not so much, apparently. When I was escorted to the examination room, I asked the nurse, very politely, to give the doctor a message. I asked him not to even come in if he couldn't find anything wrong, just to have the nurse come in and send me home if that was the case. You might find that a strange request, but I just couldn't bear to to hear yet another doctor tell me I had yet another "chronic condition" (Translated: "It's all in your head, or unknown to science. Either way, there's nothing I can do for you, so come back in a month and tell me if it hasn't gotten any better."). I've already got 2 bad knees, a bad heel, and a magical exploding eardrum that fit that bill, and I really don't need another one to add to it!
Looking rather confused, the nurse left in a hurry. In about 3 minutes, the doctor came in. "Good news, even if it's bad news!" thought I. He told me straight out that they'd found some minor tearing of the cartilage in my shoulder. Then he poked at me a little.
After the twisting and prodding, he said the amount of tearing was small, and probably wouldn't need surgery, because, "It's the kind of thing people go through their whole lives with, without even noticing." My eye started to to twitch at this, and I asked the fatal question, "So then, is it what's causing my injury?". "Probably not. I can't see any cause for the specific symptoms you are describing."
After I was done strangling the bastard, I sneaked out the back door of the office.... In my head. In the real world, I asked him if there was anything at all he could do to help me. He gave me a script for some anti-inflammatory drugs, and said it. The very thing I instinctively knew he would, all along. "I want you to come back in a month if the symptoms persist."
Do you think there's a doctors' conspiracy trying to make me burst a brain aneurism, or do the fates just hate me????
