Welllll ... here's my update: I went to see my doctor and all of those tests for infection came up negative. He said that he's never seen an MRI like mine and is baffled. As a last ditch effort, he ordered a
three phase bone scan for me, which I had yesterday. It was sort of an all day procedure. They had to take a full scan before they did anything and then they shot me up with radioactive material and took another full scan. After that, they sent me away for
three hours with orders to drink tons of water. I took my daughter out to lunch to kill time. She deserves it for all of the chauffeuring that she's done this week. Four trips to Indianapolis in one week! When we got back to the hospital, they did a final scan. This one took much longer. For parts of the scan I could see a screen that showed the radioactive bits glowing in my system. After the test was done, I told the tech that I saw a big blob that was sparkling like a psychopathic Christmas tree. He grinned and said "Wellll ... that would be your bladder". LOL
The test results should be available on Monday. My doc says that if they can't find any infection, then it just about has to be an MS thing. It will be time to take things up with my neurologist. I really didn't want to hear that. It means that what looks like infection all along my spine is actually MS damage. That scares the heck outta me.