Later she talked to their doctor - who informed my mother that the X-rays she'd gotten prior to calling the ambulance, showed nothing wrong. No fractures. Me: How'd they find the fracture then? Mother: the hospital ran a C-T scan and found it that way.

Diagnostic imaging can be tricky. Just about a month ago, my sister's husband was having a lot of pain in one shoulder. His dodc had an x-ray taken and it looked fine, so he diagnosed a soft-tissue sort of problem and recommended some exercises to treat it.

But, it didn't get better, so his doc sent him to a specialist, who, according to my sister, took one look at the original x-ray, and said, "This isn't good enough. We need to take some additional ones that detail the shoulder structure from all around." They did, the specialist looked at the results, and pointed to an area on one of the x-rays, said "There it is. We need to target that specific area with a cortisone injection. She did, and a week later it was better.

Hang in there!

( BTW, pic of angel or whatever it is in the tree with the branches all around it is fabu! Copied! )