[Dottore]

Originally Posted by genrex

My father had the same symptom.... acute pain in the muscle of his left scapula, for weeks and weeks. He thought he had "twisted a muscle" and he wouldn't see a doctor for it, instead thinking that it would go away by itself. After about two months of this, I got a phone call from my mother in the middle of the night. My father had fallen, and he couldn't get up. I was there in 5 minutes. I carried him to the car (doing a fireman's carry), and we all went to the ER.

The ER doctors admitted him to the hospital for testing, where they discovered that he had muscle cancer, and it had migrated to his spinal column. He lost all function from that point downward, which of course included his legs. He spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.

I hope your outcome is much better!

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They ruled out the big C with CT's and MRI's - so I'm relaxed about that.