Again after yesterday

I had my (long-post-poned) appointment with Dr Chris Hanna yesterday.

Chris, a sports physician based at Adidas Sports Medicine, has known me for more than 10 years, supervising my first breaking up, non-healing, and operation. He saw me through the what-can-possibly-be-wrong-with-you-that-you-keep-falling-apart-for-no-good-reason period, got me to more specialists, onto Fosomax + pamindronate intra-venous infusions, and supervised several crutches-rehab cycles.

He referred me to the right person to start with in Sydney.

And (from afar) become aware that some odd and hard-to-detect but severe(-ish, my addition) form of osteoporosis discovered finally after a bone biopsy.

Heard that the 3-d bone scanning machine in Sydney was useful for discovering improvement (which I had) and that the Fosomax (which I had started anyway, clearly something was wrong!!) seemed to be doing considerable good.

And, back in NZ, tried to discover whether my apparently trauma-related (2 severe falls)
L5S1 disc-on-disc is a phantom newcomer issue or related to the other stuff.
Without any evidence decided unrelated.

So now is my man for both osteoporosis + the nasty back problem, sports and non-sports injuries alike ...
Background over, back to yesterday.

Back: we'ver tried everything. Rest, movement, corticosteroid spinal injections, Pilates, physio, pain-killers, strong and lots of them (they're good).
And especially time.
It has been 2 years, it's pretty conservative to wait that amount of time; here's the surgeon's phone number, here is the xray referral, here is your usual voltaren and tramadol script, please get new xrays, please call him.

Osteo: Obviously doing some running is helping a part of your physical condition (lack of mobility caused by the back problem). But it MIGHT be giving the ever-present ghosts of bad-Christmasses past a chance to do some nasty.
MIGHT. Something doesn't look/feel good (pelvis, a part of it I haven't fractured before). Here is the xray referral. Please get xrays and come back to see me.
BUT MAYBE IT'S OK.

AND IF SO, maybe you can try for a half-marathon in November.
Yep.
AND IF NOT ... well, we'll talk about that.

Have had xrays.
Have appointment Monday with Chris.
Have appointment Aug 19th with Peter Robertson (surgeon).

Mixed news.