MRI results: cue Twilight Zone theme

[cjsmith]

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.

Comments

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I vote for the tiny aliens. Although I think they teach those as being "demons" at med schools in Kansas. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That's it. My feet are possessed!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Ok, that's -- um -- weird. It's kind of like the surgery I had to get rid of endo (hysterectomy and laser treatment), and the doc said she got almost all the endo, but the *report* didn't mention endo at all, so my next doctor thought I was making it up.

Except I hope your report is right. Have you noticed a difference in pain in the right foot? Different from how it used to be? Different from your left foot?

This is odd, very odd. I vote for the tiny alien theory.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh man. That must have been frustrating.

Nah, they're both the same as ever. Some days are better than others, and it's a coin-flip which foot will be worse at any given time, but it's not like they're Way Improved or something.

That's two votes for the tiny aliens! Pulling ahead at the polls... :-)

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I bet it's the Musinex Monsters.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Woohoo, we have a race! It's two to one, tiny aliens to Musinex Monsters. The polls have not closed and final counts are not yet in!

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

If you have overuse tendinosis, you'll just have to stop overusing your feet. Start walking on your hands. If you wave your feet in the air as you go, the aliens will get seasick and leave.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Best suggested cure yet. (After all, if I do have overuse tendinosis, there's absolutely no real hope. I haven't used those tendons in a year.) I hope it's the aliens!