Metal Me and Life Interrupted

I had been in pain all year. The pain sharply accelerated during August.
Two different sports orthopedians had diagnosed me with a likely torn meniscus. I had assumed my arthritis was getting worse. I had been trying to stabilize my knee with grocery store knee braces.
While rising from a sitting position I felt a pop in my hip. Combined with the pain, foggy thinking and fatigue, I was frightened. We hurried to the ER.
The triage nurse said my blood pressure was off the charts ( sign of pain ) and hurried me to the front of the line. The ER doctor ordered a CT scan. He explained he could see fractures more easily than in the set of x-rays I brought with me.
What he saw was a fracture through abnormal material near the ball of my femur and the lump I had recently found in my right breast.

The next morning I was in surgery. They removed as much of the tumor as possible and installed a metal brace along my femur to preserve my ability to walk.

After tests, my right breast and a couple of lymphnoids were removed and a portacath installed in my chest for future chemotherapy.

I was in hospital recovering and getting occupational/physical therapy for 3 weeks.