Jay "The Birdman" Stumpff - My Story

I went to the doctor today to check out my leg. My general doctor said that he thought that I had some sort of tendonitis or something since my leg would not quit hurting.

My leg has hurt since January 18th. I was doing some exercises on a stair stepper. Not the mechanical thing but an actual step that you step up and step off 1 billion times. I was doing an endurance test when I felt pain in my right leg.

My general doctor put me on a steroid to help with the tendonitis and even put me on an anti-inflammatory medicine and my leg still hurt. He told me that there are only 2 things in the area that could be the source of the problem. We ruled out a blood clot with a Doppler image of my leg. Then he treated my leg with the medications I mentioned earlier. He gave up and sent me to an orthopedist in Tulsa.

I took off today so I could drive down to Tulsa to spend a day in the doctor's office. When I got to the doctor's office I went through a series of paper work then got to go to the room after a half hour. Then someone took me to an x-ray room to finally x-ray my leg. I waited for the doctor for at least an hour before he came in with the x-rays.

He asked me what happened and as I was explaining what happened he put up my x-rays and turned on the backlight. Before I could get the story all out I saw a little bulge on my bone in the spot where the pain was occurring. I knew right away that I have some bone growth around a darkened spot. Sure enough I have a broken leg. I have a stress fracture on the fibula, the smaller outside bone on the leg. The doctor is unsure how this happened other than the stress on the bone from the exercises and all the walking I did in Canada. He also said that there is nothing he can do about the bone since there is new bone growing to heal the fracture. I have to keep doing what I have been doing.

I am a tough guy! I have been walking around on a broken leg for the last 2 months! This marks the 4 broken bones in my body. I hope it is the last.

On a side note, one website I read mentioned that the tumor on my pituitary gland can cause loss of bone density. That could be a link but I am not a doctor. Then again I knew my leg was broken 5 weeks ago but no one else thought it was. I had to pay over 100 dollars in doctor’s visit co-pays to find out something I already thought I knew. Oh well, at least I have insurance.

~Ironman Jay~

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