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Thursday evening I was carrying a bowl of soup from the kitchen to my chair to eat it. Some of the soup slipped out of the bowl and onto the floor. My left heel hit the soup and slid straight out, and I went down onto my folded right leg. Now 32 years ago, I had a massive accident and my right leg was very damaged and pinned and plated back together. So this time, the tibia held but the fibula broke near the knee. Crap.
I couldn’t get up (pain) so I called 911. Whole comedy of errors there. The front door was locked so the ambulance guy had to traipse through the back yard to the back door, which was unlocked. They had been warned there were two poodles that I couldn’t get up to put in another room. He envisioned little yappers, but he was greeted at the door by “tyrannosaurus poodle”, a 60 pound standard. The dogs were very well behaved, considering the ambulance had to call for the reinforcement of about ten of their friends, since I am a very large woman.
Broken leg. I’m also concerned about soft tissue damage to my knee and ankle, as that’s where it hurts more. Yesterday there was a lot of pain but I got a great night’s sleep in my own bed last night and have much less pain today, even without meds. They’re calling it a “stable fracture” since the tibia is pinned and plated so the fibula is kind of stuck in place. I have crutches but no cast, splint or immobilizer. When determining what (if anything) was needed, a consideration was my incontinence and how yucky a cast or immobilizer would get.
I see an orthopedic doctor on Thursday and hope that goes well and I am not doing further damage in the meantime. I also have a wheelchair I can use.
Tuesday I am having an ablation to my heart for atrial fibrillation. (They thread a wire up through your groin and up into your heart to try and burn out the part of your heart that is misbehaving electrically). This is my fourth. My a fib is stubborn and I hable had three ablations already and three different pacemakers in four years. I’m getting quite tired of all this. My symptoms are episodes of terrible shortness of breath and fatigue. Think good thoughts for me, please. It feels like my body is staging a mutiny. I’m only 64.
I couldn’t get up (pain) so I called 911. Whole comedy of errors there. The front door was locked so the ambulance guy had to traipse through the back yard to the back door, which was unlocked. They had been warned there were two poodles that I couldn’t get up to put in another room. He envisioned little yappers, but he was greeted at the door by “tyrannosaurus poodle”, a 60 pound standard. The dogs were very well behaved, considering the ambulance had to call for the reinforcement of about ten of their friends, since I am a very large woman.
Broken leg. I’m also concerned about soft tissue damage to my knee and ankle, as that’s where it hurts more. Yesterday there was a lot of pain but I got a great night’s sleep in my own bed last night and have much less pain today, even without meds. They’re calling it a “stable fracture” since the tibia is pinned and plated so the fibula is kind of stuck in place. I have crutches but no cast, splint or immobilizer. When determining what (if anything) was needed, a consideration was my incontinence and how yucky a cast or immobilizer would get.
I see an orthopedic doctor on Thursday and hope that goes well and I am not doing further damage in the meantime. I also have a wheelchair I can use.
Tuesday I am having an ablation to my heart for atrial fibrillation. (They thread a wire up through your groin and up into your heart to try and burn out the part of your heart that is misbehaving electrically). This is my fourth. My a fib is stubborn and I hable had three ablations already and three different pacemakers in four years. I’m getting quite tired of all this. My symptoms are episodes of terrible shortness of breath and fatigue. Think good thoughts for me, please. It feels like my body is staging a mutiny. I’m only 64.
