Doing everything I know I shouldn't...

So I mentioned the other day that I was having some residual foot pain from the 7 mile run my cousin and I did last weekend. In actuality, I've had some level of pain in that foot for approximately the last three years. A few years ago I saw a podiatrist about the issue who thought it might have been the sesamoid bones.  I had X-rays done which did not show any issues and was basically told to wear Danskos all the time (note, I'm 26, 5 feet tall and female...clearly that didn't happen).

Over the last few months as I've been more active my foot has only bothered me more and more. I put off scheduling another appointment for quite a while, mostly because I've been scared of what I was going to be told! But I finally bit the bullet and scheduled an appointment with a sports medicine specialist through Student Health. (How weird is it that I'm back to going to "student health" and that they have a sports medicine specialist on staff?)

The doctor I met with took me a bit more seriously than the last, which I appreciated. As a first step she sent me over to the hospital to have x-rays taken and we scheduled a follow up appointment for next Friday. If she cannot determine the cause of my pain from the x-rays I will then, likely, need to have an MRI.

Fortunately I was able to get right over to the hospital and have the x-rays taken. Naturally I also requested a copy of them to bring home....

So now I'm googling x-ray images of healthy feet and comparing to my own. This kind of stuff is why past doctors have explicitly forbidden me from googling or researching on my own! This one doesn't know me well enough yet...

Anyone know how to read x-rays?

Looks like a foot to me?

Unfortunately I don't have a medical degree so none of this actually means anything to me. Seems like I'll have to wait until next week to learn more. Oh and bonus, the doctor mentioned what I thought was a bruise could potentially be either a result of this foot pain...or melanoma and may need to be biopsied. So the waiting this week is going to be fun. 

Time to go run now...(I wasn't told I couldn't)!