Ah! My Aching Hip!

I hurt my left hip a long time ago. Now every time I run I get to experience some pretty mind blowing pain AND it just gets worse after I stop, always making for a very not restful night of sleep and a frustrated day after.

Remedy? I stopped running. But the problem with the military is that they really WANT me to run and I won't do it (and my doctor agrees) and this has gone on for so long now that I am in the process of finding out if a permanent profile is the way for me to go. With one piece of paper I'll never have to run again. Sounds pretty amazing for my hip.

But of course they need documents, X-rays, MRIs, stuff like that so I was sent today to get an angiogram. I take off my jeans to put on the gown, then lie down on an X-ray table only to have to cute young thing assisting the doctor help me get down to the, uh, naked truth. No worries though, I was covered with a towel.

But as I lay there with my towel covering my shame, it had to be moved by the doctor to wipe it with iodine, inject it with anesthetic, and inject it with dye (it being my hip). This required the towel to be moved. Quite a bit to the right.

I was pretty uncomfortable lying there, not because I was basically naked with two people looking at me, but because the cute young thing was the first chick to see my package since my wife and I started dating. It certainly didn't help that by now the coldness of the hospital, the iodine and the tubes and needles coming out of the general are would make for a very unimpressive sight.

*sigh*

But after all that was over, they gave me a wheelchair and a ride to get an MRI. I love MRIs. They're the perfect place to nap. I like them quite a bit. Actually, after my first MRI (done to my head so I was fully in the tube) I contemplated replacing my bed with a homemade MRI tube with a mattress inside it. Imagine how little space that would take up!

And now I'm home. I can't walk all that great, but I'm here and glad the process has been started.

Hopefully I won't have to repeat it.

And hopefully that chick won't write about today's events in her diary while laughing.