Bone-marrow biopsy.

Where the biopsy of the lump in my neck had taken a bit of the lump out, this was taking a bit of the inside of my pelvis out through a similar process. I asked if she was going to have to drill through the hard exterior of my bone to get to the marrow but it was more a process of pushing hard into my pelvis bone until it got to the middle then the litter grabber needle would take a tube of red bone marrow out which looked like a tiny worm. She’d given me a local anaesthetic which worked except I could feel everything that was going on (if you’ve ever had teeth taken out with anaesthetic its not exactly painful but still unpleasant) there was some pain as she was pushing so hard into my pelvis that it was clearly having some kind of knock-on effect and had a dull ache over a wide area.