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Being disabled in my non-dominant hand is so funny. Like, I don't use you anyway????

"We're gonna try to do less invasive procedures before taking out the bone."

Why? I have 206 bones. I don't need them all, particularly that one. Take my bones, doc

#someone told me this sounds like a the magnus archives reference #osteonecrosis #mildly disabled #i want them to take out my bone so I can save it in a jar

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

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My bone died and now I can’t walk!

here’s the story of how my skeleton betrayed me and how people’s reactions have inspired my upcoming villain arc.

Since the beginning of the year I’ve had some trouble with my hip, which made walking painful and gradually more difficult. I assumed I’d pulled something, but when things didn’t improve, I went to a doctor. Multiple X-rays, an MRI, and a CT scan later, I was diagnosed with avascular necrosis (AVN; also called osteonecrosis). I don’t know why I, as a 19 yr old female, developed a rare condition usually found in middle aged men with a history of steroid use and alcoholism, but I’m being passed around doctors who are looking into procedures to lessen the damage. Basically there wasn’t enough blood getting to my bone and the tissue died, fracturing in the process. I’m on two crutches and can’t walk for more than a few steps without leaning on the wall or something.

One of the most significant things I’ve noticed outside of my body, though, is the way people treat me. I work for a small company, and customers new and old have all had something to say about a young woman having to use a crutch. (I use one at work so my other hand is free.) I’m not kidding when I say that the day after I started using them, a man came in and asked, “why’re they making you work if you’re a cripple?” and he laughed. You’d be surprised the number of people who’ve called me that. Most people assume I broke something doing sports. I get “what’s wrong with you?” on the regular, which is *such* a strange thing to ask someone! I tried responding with ‘I don’t know’ or ‘broke my hip’, which were true, but didn’t seem to satisfy people. If you joke and say ‘bear attack’ they demand the real story. Once I knew what it was I had, I simply told the really insistent customers that I have a bone disease. (People don’t like that either! One woman asked my full legal name so she could write a letter to her priest about me, then came back weeks later to tell my coworker she sobbed in her car because of me!)

Coworkers aren’t much better: my boss and another coworker, both women around their 60s, were looking at me and laughing, so I asked what was up. They said I should tell everyone I got injured having the roughest, craziest sex of my life. That I found a sex shop that sells the perfect handcuffs and I could recommend them to customers who asked. My response to that was just to stand there like 🩼🧍‍♀️.

So! Yeah! People should stop assuming that they’re close enough to strangers to joke about their conditions or grill them for information. No, I don’t know when I’ll be able to walk. No, I don’t know why I developed this problem. No, you can’t walk into the store and call me a cripple, you don’t know me, you’re not funny, my bones have literally degraded and you’re laughing about how I’m ‘hobbling around’?

(Nobody get me started on doctors. I have one really great one but I’m currently in a new hospital where a nurse explained that they may or may not have lost the file for my CT scan… Plus the RMV had no idea where my handicapped placard went and told me just to keep calling them until they had it.)

That’s all folks! I might have updates about walking or surgery eventually but that’s my story :’)

#avascular necrosis #osteonecrosis #ableism #disability #physical disability #< just to specify. hoping for improvements to mobility soon <\3 #also I super miss running. and putting on socks and rolling around on the ground and stuff MANNN this is unfortunate #unrelated

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A sprinter with arch pain. Kohlers AVN: Not everything is always mechanically pain driven.

More ankle rocker is not always the right answer. An orthotic or stability shoe is not always the answer.

Thus, not everything will have a mechanical solution and a corrective exercise. People without a medical background will not likely know what Kohlers Disease is or Mueller Weiss syndrome is for that matter (the adult form of AVN (avascular necrosis)).

So, an athlete coming to you with pain in the arch, you as a trainer, coach, and maybe even a therapist or doctor for that matter, might easily think: "impaired ankle rocker", too much pronation, wrong shoe fit, etc . . . , . the list can be very long.

But sometimes, the problem is unrelated, or indirectly related. This case of Kohlers/Mueller Weiss came in this week from out of state in a sprinter. The pain started with a shoe change, and some pain in the arch region, dorsally in this case. Could it just be a massive stress response?, but it also could be Kohlers. Time will tell, but as you can see, the STIR sequence MRI shows a MASSIVE inflammatory response in the navicular bone. And if it is Kohlers AVN, we are in the early inflammatory stage. You must catch this in the early stage, and try to not let it progress to avascular stage and necrosis and collapse. That means utmost protection, taht means 100% non weight bearing. If you break through the cortex, and this is early AVN, a deformed collapsed navicular will result, and that *could mean foot pain for life. Certainly impaired foot biomechanics.

Don't dismiss unchanging pain, or worsening pain. Sometimes it is not mechanical. This case remains unknown right now, meaning massive stress response (ie pre stress fracture)? or AVN early stange? I am not taking a chance, bag it up and reimage several weeks later. Over treat this one, just in case.

Shawn Allen, the other gait guy

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