Monday, March 20, 2006

X-Ray Update

I went in Friday to have my x-rays done. I wasn't allowed to bring my children so I had to wait till my husband got home from work. Luckily on Fridays he gets home around 3:30pm.

I rushed to the office because I knew they closed at 5pm. I waited around in the waiting room for awhile and finally had my name called around 4:30pm. The x-rays were done with me standing against a wall. One of angles had to be done 4 times before it came out clear enough. They finished with me at 5:15pm, so I wouldn't be able to get the x-rays till Monday morning.

This morning I started getting ready to leave the house. I went out to the garage to double-check that my husband had left the car seats in the garage so I could use them in the truck today. He forgot! I even thought about reminding him this morning as he left, but I figured he had remembered the past three mondays to get them out of the car I was sure he would have remembered this morning as well. I guess thats what I get for not following a prompting...

I desparately started calling people in the ward to see if they could watch the kids since I couldn't take them with me because I didn't have car seats. One person was willing to come pick up my kids and take them to her house so they could play with her kids while I was gone. She even gave me permission to go to the grocery store on the way home! Woot!

I picked up the x-rays and went to the chiropractor's office. I got curious as I was waiting so I peeked in the envelope to see if there was a write up or something. There was a letter along with the x-rays from the M.D. He commented that he noticed some slight scoliosis in the lower lumbar region. I couldn't remember exactly what that was, but I remember the awkward days in P.E. class when we had to go into the locker room and take our shirts off, and bend over while someone looked at the curvature of our backs. I waited for the Dr. to come in, trying to remember what scoliosis was.

She came in and asked if I had the x-rays. She took them out and put them up on the board. The first one was from the front view. Showing my spine and my pelvis. The first thing I noticed and the doctor commented on was that my left hip was higher than my right hip. 22 millimeters higher. Also she noticed the curvature of my spine. Just ever so slightly. In the x-ray you could see my left hip/ball socket, but you couldn't see the right hip. Even on the side view you could see that my left hip socket was higher than the right. I have a tilted pelvis. She said that at age 27, its good that there's no sign of any bone deterioration. And she was really amazed that my back didn't have more curving in it than it had.

The solution: a heel lift. This little piece of cork that fits in my right shoe, to raise my right leg up ever so slightly so it would be aligned with my left. The doctor said its good that we caught this now at such a young age. Using this little heel lift will help to straighten out my pelvis which will releve the constant back pain, but it will also help to prevent bone deterioration, arthritis, and more problems in my lower back and pelvis. I should have a little muscle ache in my hips and possibly my knees as my body adjusts to the new hip height. I'll take that now rather than the constant back pain in the future, and all the other problems that may come as a result of that as well.
Posted by ABQ Mom :: 3/20/2006 02:21:00 PM :: 10 Comments:

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