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  • PuppyFive
    PuppyFive Member Posts: 2,808
    edited February 2008

    HEHEHE Calico,

    no we wont Recycle You!

    We will just Oil the  You and keep ya!!Tongue out

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008

    calico---generally, "proximal femur" means the upper part of the femur bone; where the uppermost portion of the femur joins with the pelvis is considered your "hip joint", but if the area is way up there, the radiologist normally would note that by terms like "femoral neck", "acetabulum" and some others.  Since they didn't see any fracture on the xrays or scans, you may have just bruised it badly when you fell.

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  • otter
    otter Member Posts: 6,099
    edited February 2008

    Gosh, Calico, I know zip about PET scans.  Yes, the head of the femur sure is at the proximal end; but I don't know whether the report would have said "femoral head" etc. if that was the case.

    As for your fall, yes you can definitely have a hip injury that goes unnoticed after a fall.  My dad slipped and fell on some ice last year.  He hit his knee really bad--skinned it up something awful; and he scraped the side of his chin.  The ER docs patched him up and sent him home.  The next day, he was gimping around so my mom took him back to the doc....who discovered my dad had broken his "hip" (actually, he broke the neck of his femur).  OTOH, my dad has some other problems that would have caused him to not tell the original ER doc that his hip was hurting.

    So, my final answer is that I don't know.  And I agree with Puppy--we are not recycling you.  Some things just aren't re-cyclable.  They have to be bronzed and kept in a curio cabinet.

    :) 

    otter 

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  • HeatherBLocklear
    HeatherBLocklear Member Posts: 1,370
    edited February 2008

    Just my two cents' worth -- don't worry too much about the blood glucose of 106. It's considered within normal range in most European countries as well as in Canada. Also, stress (like before tests) can make it rise. You're also in my thoughts and prayers; hang in there. Believe me, I know how tough it is to stay strong.

    Annie

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  • Calico
    Calico Member Posts: 1,108
    edited February 2008

    Thanks for the smile guys :)

    For now (this weekend) I assume the lighter upper was due to the fall, but it was on all the scans since dx, just not noted.

    I got all my copies including the DEXA and learned, I lost 9.1 % in the lumbar spine...Yikes....the onc called my bone loss "a little", must have referred to the 4.4 % and 4.7 % on right and left hip I guess (from beginning of Femara until 18 mo. later)....that teaches me to ALWAYS pick up copies....I do, just not on the dexa.

    Maybe it's related to that?

    I probably still will contact an outside cancer center to review.

    so....I am going to buy a bottle of RED..waddayathink*???? .....and I won't share with DH Tongue out

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited February 2008
     Calico, I just popped in and read the update, and while the proximal femuriddydiddydo  meant nothing to me, and the explanations meant nothing to me, I have to offer my hugs and support.  I'm thinking of you!  

    Love and prayers, Deb
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  • PuppyFive
    PuppyFive Member Posts: 2,808
    edited February 2008

    HEHEHE, Get a Big Bottle of Red, and drink it in front of Him!!!

    have a good weekend, Sweety, You deserve it!!!

    Puppy

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  • HeatherBLocklear
    HeatherBLocklear Member Posts: 1,370
    edited February 2008

    Hi Callie,

    The red wine is not a bad idea, actually. It helped me get through the days before my ovarian cancer surgery (which turned out to be a giant cystadenoma, by the way, after everyone was practically picking out the flowers and music for the service!).

    I'm not implying that you should drink yourself silly (nor that I did myself), but simply that a glass or two in the evening can help calm you down and keep you even during those very stressful times. I actually wonder if wine isn't less harmful than tranquilizers ...

    My DH and I would have a glass together before dinner, a second with dinner, and -- occasionally -- a brandy with coffee later in the evening (we shared one -- brandy, I mean, not coffee. We each had coffee; there's a limit to abstemiousness).

    Yes, you deserve a good weekend. As I write this, you're still sweetly asleep. I hope your dreams are as good as your future will be-- in other words, wonderful!

    Hugs,

    Annie

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited February 2008

    Calico..What does uptake mean exactly? I had pain in my hip so I got a CT of hip and thigh. No cancer but they found a benign tumor there that I had two different orthopedists look at. It's called enchondroma, I think, and he said that many people have them and they cause no pain and aren't usually found unless they are looking for something else.... They told me, from looking at it, that it's been there for years. Could that be what you have?

    Hang in there, Calico!

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  • Calico
    Calico Member Posts: 1,108
    edited February 2008

    Puppy and Annie,

    I had one glas and enjoyed it!!! :) bought a large bottle just in case it wouldn't be enough....then felt bad for wanting it...(sigh...)...so...trying to be a good girl!!

    Ravdeb,

    they have been comparing it back through all the scans to 2005.

    Maybe the small uptake was because I fell and it hurts, and I told them about the area.....who knows, without me saying anything, I still wouldn't know about it....

    it says on my report

    "..there is a subtle sclerotic density present there. Given  the stability, this likely represents a benign process such as a bone island or potential small bone infarct (*don't know what either one of them is). Neoplastic process would be considered much less likely."

      (how much less likely is what I  would like to know....is this a guarantee? No!...but no recommenation for another check up either)

    I don't know....I am trying to push it aside and not think about it anymore until Monday....also, I am kind of glad not to have known about it, together with the nodule in my lung I probably would have gotten a heart attack by now Tongue out but on the other hand I am so dissappointed, I have such a hard time believing radiologists anyhow since my missed mammo and my faith in doc's right now is really low....

    God Bless

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  • TenderIsOurMight
    TenderIsOurMight Member Posts: 4,493
    edited March 2008



    Calico,



    Just sending you a cyber ((hug)) hoping you're not dispairing much, and thinking how your doctor could help boost your faith in medicine. We got to keep faith in those helping us.



    I'd bet they mention your subtle proximal femur finding now because you mentioned you fell so it directed their eyes. This is not to excuse them (shame on you, radiologist!) for not informing you and your dear doctor the first times.



    2005 is quite a while ago, and if it's unchanged that strikes me as much better news than not. A small bone infarct is a loss of bone (local non functioning bone which may result in sclerosis) due to loss of blood nourishment. So this reading apparently falls predominantly on suggesting this is a benign process. No one gives percentages in radiology. But they clearly did not think there was a high risk here.



    Anyway, hope you are feeling some better about this, and if not, I'm sure you will weigh in with a plan.



    Seems like we're always having to plan, and plan, and....



    C'est notre vie maintenant!

    Tender

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  • Calico
    Calico Member Posts: 1,108
    edited February 2008

    Thanks Tender,

    still having the head in the sand about this....

    I really want to believe BUT there is this little voice inside me that asks "what if he is wrong just like the radio who read my mammo?" and it drives me nuts Tongue out really....absolutely nuts (and I hate myself for it because it causes anxiety...if I go for another opinion, the wait will cause anxiety too....head in the sand is comfy right now if I could just shut that voice...

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