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I got a copy of my MRI reports. I can read them only at the most basic level; I don't know implications. Keeping in mind that the "flexor plate" and the "plantar plate" are the same thing, here's a tiny but intriguing snippet of the right foot report (emphasis mine):
"Patient with previous plantar plate rupture of the 3rd metatarsophalangeal joint as well as a Morton's neuroma at the 3rd interspace. Examination now for follow-up. [...] Specifically the region of the flexor plate of the 3rd metatarsophalangeal joint appears unremarkable. There is no evidence of edema at this time. No obvious flexor plate injury is determined. Recommend correlation with clinical history of surgery."
In other words, it's fine, and that should have required surgical repair.
I can't wait to hear what Dr. C has to say about this tomorrow. Maybe the plate never was ruptured. Maybe it was, and is healing on its own in an unprecedented burst of self-knitting telekinesis (now if only it'd quit hurting). Maybe my problem is tendinosis instead. Maybe it's forefoot degeneration caused by an allergy to cats. Maybe it's the tiny aliens living in my joints.
"Patient with previous plantar plate rupture of the 3rd metatarsophalangeal joint as well as a Morton's neuroma at the 3rd interspace. Examination now for follow-up. [...] Specifically the region of the flexor plate of the 3rd metatarsophalangeal joint appears unremarkable. There is no evidence of edema at this time. No obvious flexor plate injury is determined. Recommend correlation with clinical history of surgery."
In other words, it's fine, and that should have required surgical repair.
I can't wait to hear what Dr. C has to say about this tomorrow. Maybe the plate never was ruptured. Maybe it was, and is healing on its own in an unprecedented burst of self-knitting telekinesis (now if only it'd quit hurting). Maybe my problem is tendinosis instead. Maybe it's forefoot degeneration caused by an allergy to cats. Maybe it's the tiny aliens living in my joints.
