I went to St. Louis yesterday for my 100 day checkup. I had lab work, visited with the doctor, then had a bone marrow biopsy. Everything went fine and it will be about a week before I get results from the biopsy.
I've been experiencing some back and hip pain again the last several weeks. I had a skeletal survey (x-ray of every bone in the body) and an MRI of the entire spine recently and both came back clean. The doctors don't think it's cancer related, rather avascular necrosis or micro fractures. Avascular necrosis is a disease most prominently of the hip where the bone in the joint dies due to lack of blood flow, and can be advanced from chemo, radiation and steroids, all of which I've had. The micro fractures could've come from weakened bones caused pretty much by the same treatments.
I'll probably get a PET scan pretty soon to try and pinpoint the cause of the pain, and if that doesn't show anything probably an MRI of the hip area. I'm ready to be pain free for a while, oh, and while I'm at it, maybe cancer free too!