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first day home
Jul. 13th, 2006 10:29 amokay. me and my broken-in-three-places ankle are back at home now, still high on percocet. the surgeon and her very cute PA came to unwrap my leg yesterday afternoon. under the eight layers of gauze and ace wrap was a still extremely swollen ankle. even i could see that. there was a moment in the ER on tuesday night when the doctor had a hushed consultation at the foot of my bed, the only word i actually made out was deformed, which made me sit up from my morphine-and-ativan haze saying, "did you just say my ankle was deformed?" ha ha. well, it still looked deformed when the surgeon unwrapped it.
for now i am at home, with crutches but not allowed to get up except to go pee and maybe shower (with the leg poking out since the splint can't get wet). an alarm goes off every four hours to tell me to take my percocet. i have a trashcan next to my bed in case it makes me nauseous...on the car ride home from the hospital kirk had to pull over so i could lose my hospital dinner out the car door. but as long as i stay in bed, i get light-headed but not nauseous. moving the leg in any way still makes me cry a little.
on tuesday i'll go back to see the surgeon, and if the swelling has gone down, i will have surgery to set pins and a plate into the ankle, on wednesday or thursday.
kind of dark, but here it is, splinted and wrapped, maybe four separate layers of gauze and three of ace wrap, plus the thick wet plaster layer of the splint. sigh. so painful, so ugly.
for now i am at home, with crutches but not allowed to get up except to go pee and maybe shower (with the leg poking out since the splint can't get wet). an alarm goes off every four hours to tell me to take my percocet. i have a trashcan next to my bed in case it makes me nauseous...on the car ride home from the hospital kirk had to pull over so i could lose my hospital dinner out the car door. but as long as i stay in bed, i get light-headed but not nauseous. moving the leg in any way still makes me cry a little.
on tuesday i'll go back to see the surgeon, and if the swelling has gone down, i will have surgery to set pins and a plate into the ankle, on wednesday or thursday.
kind of dark, but here it is, splinted and wrapped, maybe four separate layers of gauze and three of ace wrap, plus the thick wet plaster layer of the splint. sigh. so painful, so ugly.
