I'm becoming a professional waiter and I'm not talking about the ones that serve food. It's been a month since I went to see my primary care Dr. about having flank pain. At that appointment I told him that the lateral side of my knee had been swollen for at least a year with an oblong soft mass on the back of my knee for 2 months but it didn't hurt nearly as much as the flank/back pain. Since then I've been waiting for this exam, that consult, this opinion and test results. Test results have shown pleural thickening in bilateral lung bases and PVNS in my knee. I know that it would be extremely rare but not unheard of for PVNS to be in the spine, knee and lungs.
The docs haven't been able to identify the cause of the flank pain yet. Now I'm waiting again until Thursday to see my pain specialist to determine if the flank pain is originating from the area in the spine in which my baclophen pump catheter is inserted. The pump controls severe muscle spasms due to previous neurological damage (unrelated to PVNS). I'm sure another MRI is in order.
I am also waiting for my appointment on Friday with a orthopedic oncologist who is supposed to know about this "pain in the joint disease." I will be interviewing her to see if she has the expertise to treat my knee. I'll post my interview questions under another heading. I'm very apprehensive about this appointment. I've read many accounts of this neoplasm returning after surgery and quite frankly I don't want to be included in those statistics.
Three doctors are in the duck blind and a bird flies overhead. The general practitioner looks at it and says, "Looks like a duck, flies like a duck... it's probably a duck," shoots at it but misses and the bird flies away.
The next bird flies overhead, and the pathologist looks at it, then looks through the pages of a bird manual, and says, "Hmmmm...green wings, yellow bill, quacking sound...might be a duck." He raises his gun to shoot it, but the bird is long gone.
A third bird flies over. The surgeon raises his gun and shoots almost without looking, brings the bird down, and turns to the pathologist and says, "Go see if that was a duck.
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