I'm back...(no pun intended)

And I've got heart and back problems. But the trip was still AMAZING. I'll put up more about it later, but right now I'm filling out like a ten page long survey on my health for my visit to the back doctor tomorrow. I went and got the x-rays this morning. I'm really surprised that I haven't started glowing in my nether regions seeing as I've had so many x-rays there already. My hips, my tailbone, now this. Why can't I just get a broken arm like normal people?

So as I am fillign this out, I start thinking about my hips. I get this a lot.

them:"You have six inch titanium pins in your hips?!?! You broke them?"

me: "Yes I do, but no I didn't break them. It's called a slipped capital femoral epiphysis(E-piff-uh-sis)."

them: o_0

Story of my life.

Anyway, I was looking up some medical words like tachycardia and palpitation to make sure I was spelling them right and decided to just browse around the information on slipped capital femoral epiphysis just because it is so RANDOM. I found that I have the worst luck in the world.

"A slipped capital femoral epiphysis is a separation of the ball of the hip joint from the thigh bone (femur) at the upper growing end (growth plate) of the bone."-PennHealth.com

It mostly occurs in overweight children because of the extra stress it placed on the ball of the hip. I am at the lower end of the BMI. Especially when it happened, I was tiny.

It is more frequent in boys than girls. 66% more common, actually.

It is more common in blacks than whites.

90% of cases are stable, 10% unstable. I had one of the worst cases of instability. "A child is considered to have "stable" SCFE if he or she can walk with or without crutches. More than 90% of cases are stable.A child who can't walk, even with crutches, has "unstable" SCFE. Unstable SCFE often occurs after a trauma, such as a sports injury or a fall. Falling can also cause a stable SCFE to be unstable." -familydoctor.org. I was unable to walk, was on crutches and then had not one, but THREE traumas. Two falls, one dicectly onto the hip, and, a slip after that. Jesus H. Christ.

60% of patients only have on slipped hip, the other 40% experience it in both. Me again.

It happens to one is 250,000 people and it happens to Drew and me a week apart. (Although he was a black male, so he's got an excuse.)

I should go to Vegas. I am apparently a great bet against impossible odds.