as heading suggests, i have just been diagnosed, am waiting for MRI to identify more in depth, I live on my own, 

with my family all living abroad, and i dont want to tell them over the telephone, my two daughters are visiting 

in September by which time i hopefully will have more information, to make matters worse i ham waiting for a hip replacement, which has beeen cancelled twice already and i am very afraid it will be cancelled again with this diagnosis, My Surgeon is away until 13th Aug  so its all a lot for me to take in  at the moment. 

I just thought joining this might help me in some way