Here's the report from the second MRI:
This is obviously a bit nasty. A roughly egg-size cyst sitting just above the socket of the hip joint which means not only a high risk of a fracture but a difficult repair job afterwards because of not enough good bone to attach a replacement socket to. The good news is that I have a (cancellation) appointment with Orthopaedics at Broomfield 9am Monday morning. The secretary said "He wants to see you straight away". I think I've been walking around on a bit of a time-bomb for quite a while, without knowing a thing about it. Just glad I pushed hard for the right scan to be done and that the new haematologist agreed to push it through quickly. As I understand so far the options will be to put in some strengthening metalwork (but danger of it breaking through into the joint - not good), or packing the cyst with bone chips taken from some other bit of my skeleton, or "artificial bone" which encourages new bone to form. We shall see.
One question is whether the development of this cyst is enough to explain the (referred?) left thigh pain that started all this off. If not, still looking for an explanation of that.
A few other things to write about today, but leaving them for later.
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