Another orthopod bites the dust

January 13, 2011

Well, I've been quite here for a month. Saw another orthopod the 1st week of

January who turned out to be somebody who should be pumping gas instead of

looking at back injuries.

Before I saw this guy, I had been contacted by one of the out of state neuros

familiar with my xrays and MRI. He basically told me that my fractured and

downward pointing L5 transverse process very likely still has the iliolumbar

ligament attached. AND that the symptoms I described to him ALL coincide with

that ligament being compromised, especially the opposite side of the pelvis

being significantly higher than the other side.

Sooooooooo, I opened up my little handy dandy anatomy book, flipped to the pages

on lumbar/sacral ligaments and attachments, and my eyeballs googled out like

little binoculars. Holy Mabel Marie! And then I started internet searching for

more info. Yes, boya and girls, it's a ligament!

Ok, so scroll forward a bit and I go to see this 2nd orthopod specifically about

this possible ligament damage and treatment/repair/whatever. nd the guy spend

most of the appointment taking my health history, writing it in his computer,

and then putting it into his little tape recorder. And " I " spent most of the

appointment trying to talk to him about the ligament. And every time I would

speak he'd admonish me and try top force me to stop talking.

So I stood up, said " looks like I'm s.o.l. with you. " and asked him if he knew

anyone who actually knew about ligaments, since he was clueless (yes, I said

that), and he said " you just have osteoporosis " and just walked away.

....moron...lucky I didn't shove his baseball sized head thru the wall...

I have an appt with my pcp to find out wtf was wrong with that orthopod and to

read whatever stupid insanity he wrote down.

Ok, so who would I see, what type of doc, for ligaments?

From what I've been told by the out of state guy, this is a quick fix type of

thing where they just clip off the ligament from the tip of the offending bone.

....pruning shears anyone?

Sam

(PNW great granny)

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