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[pixiecrinkle]

Well, got my bone density test. That was largely uneventful. It was in the new building at Grant across the street from where I work, so I was in and out and back to my desk in 45 minutes! Wow! I only had to undress because I had a metal zipper in my skirt. And then, once in the room with the tech, I had to take my navel ring out. Good thing I can actually do that myself.

They make you lay down on this odd clear plastic table, and then the xray machine comes over your head and stops at your pelvis and takes an image of your hip bone, then of your lower spine.

I, of course, was looking at the screen as much as I could during this, and all the "X marks the spot looking things were in the green areas, which appeared to mean they were ok. I did have one vertebrae flagged in red, and to my eye, it looked substantially shorter than the others. Weird.

I think X-rays are so cool. It kind of weirds me out to be able to see them while they are being taken though. Odd.

When the tech was asking me questions about fractures and such, I was telling her about breaking my hand and realized that it was exactly a year ago. Then went back in my lj and realized it was actually a year ago Saturday. Funny? Ironic? Something.

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[krasota.livejournal.com]

Missing/shortened vertebrae aren't all that uncommon. My mother has a missing lumbar vertebra and a pars defect in the lowest vertebra, which means her spine shifts more than it should. Her major symptom is sciatica (from pressure put on the sciatic nerve when the spine goes where it should not. PT and keeping her weight down can prevent that, along with the nerve numbing shots she had done. ;)