Just had my ultrasound *long**probably boring**

The good news is that nothing looks torn.
The bad news, and what has been causing my pain, is that there is an incredible amount of fluid and inflammation surrounding my tendons.

Normal people would get a shot of steroids to bring this inflammation down, but he said he doesn't trust my tissues because of the genetic disorder, and feels like it would rupture my tendons. So he sat there stumped for a long time on what he wanted to do. He decided I should wear a brace and ice three times a day for three weeks and then come back.

So I love this Dr. I have shadowed him, he wrote me a letter of recommendation for med school. But, for some reason, I ALWAYS cry in front of him. It's disconcerting. My surgeon has never seen me cry. So today I was bound and determined not to cry. Made it through the whole appt. But I hung out a minute to talk to his nurse while she was cleaning the room and she goes "Do you ever look back on how much pain you were in when this first started and how much pain you're in now and wish you'd never done any of this?"

:-( :-(

I couldn't even answer. Because that's what I think about on my bad days.