How awful!  But you do want to be sure!

Love and prayers,

Vickie B;

Ginnie, you have my prayers.  It's terrible to wait for a diagnosis like
this and go through the period of "not knowing".  Hopefully this will
turn out to be unimportant but even if it is cancer you will be able to
cope when you have all the information available.

Ann

Ginnie,

Prayers on the way for a cancer free diagnosis and successful hip
replacement.

Kimmy

Do lay low, Gin...there's lots of other things it could be and since it
hasn't changed in a year none of the others are all too terrible. Without
having done a nuclear bone scan (or even a bone density) the ortho doc dunno
diddly.

   5:36 AM posting? Ya sure you want this guy workin' on yer hip when he's
like this to ya right off the bat? Egads.

    Kisses for your PCP from me.

Hugs from Rosie

Prayers coming that way. Also sending TLC your way too. I think you need it
right now.

Ginnie, will pray that you get very good news on Monday.
Gwen

Oh Ginnie, you have my prayers and thoughts.  I can't imagaine how
difficult on many levels this is for you.  Please let us know as soon
as you can, just what the diagnosis is.

M

Sending Good Thoughts,
{{{{Ginnie}}}}

GrampaHugs,
Alex,

((((((((((((((((ginnie)))))))))))))))  the big c-word generally scares the
heck out of everybody, even though some cancers are easily and completely
treatable and/or curable.  i can only imagine how you must be feeling,
sweetie.  my thoughts and prayers are with you, that it IS a 'benign bone
island'.

ginnie, just so you know, and can have some measure of peace---when my son
was 4 years old, my godfather/uncle, actually had this very same kind of
cancer (his was a large leision).   my son just turned 30 and my godfather
is still with us, is still completely whole, now age 80 or 81 (i forget
which).

please, do try to stay off the walls and ceilings, sweetie.<smile>  i find
that deliberately taking lots of deep cleansing breaths and releasing them
slowly, sometimes helps keep me.

kate

I went in to see a new orthopod Wednesday, about a routine
total hip replacement, and left, scared out of my wits, with
a possible bone cancer diagnosis.

They found a lesion near the top of my femur, that was identical
to a lesion in the exact same place they *didn't* notice a year ago,
 on a different set of xrays they'd done.  Once they showed me
the xrays and peeled me down off the walls, they hustled me away
for a cat scan.

Since they had me hold the orders while they wheeled me
down there, I had time to memorize them:

Diagnosis: 1 cd 9  code 719.45
CT (R) Hip
R/O chondrosarcoma
CT Extremity: ordered 31691 CT Extr. lower w/o contrast

The lesion is just below the upper part of the femur where it
makes a 90º turn toward the hip socket.

The doc kept telling me, if it turns out to be cancer, they'll get it,
they can fix it, but they can't do the hip replacement until they
find out and remove it, because if they "shoved a pole down
the inside of the femur, it could break up the -whatever- and
send it all over your body".

Lovely visual.

Then he said he'd call me Friday after he AND the oncologist
both reviewed the CAT scan.

Thursday, my primary doc let me squeeze into his schedule,
and HE mentioned it could be a benign "bone island", and BLESS
HIS HEART! he made two different phone calls to the orthopod!

But both he and his nurse thought I looked clammy and felt too
warm to the touch;  turned out my pulse was 122!!  He'd gotten
worried I was in fibrillation, so he hustled me down his hall for
an EKG.  I felt calm enough, but my heart was acting otherwise.
So he gave me a script for Zanax and ordered me to "lay low" until
I hear from the orthopod --

--which now won't be until at least Monday, because the oncologist
was out of the hospital until then.

So I'm waiting it out, drugged to the ears, crying at the weirdest
times, and, like I said, scared out of my wits.  Any prayers, good
wishes, fingers etc. crossed will definitely help.

Thanks,
Ginnie      >^..^>
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Prayers on their way, Ginnie!

Hugs,
Carole