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| Near Driftwood Cove. Just one of many beautiful stops on the trail. |
When I went to the doctor this most recent time (a couple of weeks ago now), he was more puzzled than ever. The numbness and 'humming' in my foot, the full feeling in my calf, the leg/glute pain already described all added up to what seemed to be a confusing problem to him. "The hip is very complicated," said he, "we're learning new things about it all the time." I can only imagine this is true of any part of the human body. Anyway. Since the xray told him nothing, and the ultrasound told him nothing, but I continued to tell him that there is a very real problem with this dumb ole leg of mine, he has now ordered the test mentioned in the title of this post: MRI Arthrogram. Wherein, I learned, a contrast media called gadolinium (which sounds cheerful, somehow) is injected into one's hip, to enhance the visualization of joint structures (phrasing from the rather useful Center for Diagnostic Imaging).
Unfortunately, the test won't be done until December 13. Which feels a bit like forever from now. But then, while this is a vexing problem, this leg thing, it makes sense that there are probably people who have much more dire pains and injuries who should take precedence. Plus, sigh, I've waited this long.
Moving on - literally - a week of exercise at the end of August while on vacation in the Bruce Peninsula proved, once again, that for me, movement is happiness. Even on a 20 kilometre hike on the most rugged of terrain (from Cyprus Lake to Tobermory on the Bruce Trail), and many many hours of awesome mountain bike riding, and some spectacular swimming in the beautiful waters of Georgian Bay, my leg didn't bother me nearly as much as it can after a couple of hours at the desk. Sheesh. Perhaps I should figure out a way to make money hiking.
