the fall of a derby girl
Jul. 12th, 2006 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aslanti'm very high right now on percoset, but DETERMINED to tell livejournal all about my shitty tuesday. at derby practice, i went into a sloppy turn, heard a massive CRUNCH in my left ankle, and fell to the floor, pretty much screaming in pain. pretty much.
prognosis: fractured fibula in two places, fractured tibia in one place, both around the ankle and generally a very unstable break requiring surgery to set properly. despite being given massive amounts of morphine last night, the pain just would not go away. was supposed to have surgery to put pins in the bone today, which meant i wasn't allowed to eat -- today, though, the o.r. is fully booked so surgery can't be until tomorrow, thus i can eat, and thus be fed percosets that have finally dulled the pain. finally.
the surgeon said if the swelling is not down today, she can't operate on it for two weeks. i don't have two weekss! sigh. i am begging them to do this now, before my oregon vacation, before my summer is essentially shot. especially because those are two weeks i would basically be bed-bound, at home, bored out of my skull. fuck. i do not have two weeks. so i'm trying to plead my case as best i can.
challenge of the afternoon: pee in a basin. try not to cry too much when they unwrap the jones bandage to look at the swelling. i can't move it without the bones grinding together and producing the most excruiciating pain.
fun facts: my roommate snored all night, extremely loudly, and now that she's awake, she likes to play pornographic books on tape outloud so we can all hear. no headphones. wtf.
prognosis: fractured fibula in two places, fractured tibia in one place, both around the ankle and generally a very unstable break requiring surgery to set properly. despite being given massive amounts of morphine last night, the pain just would not go away. was supposed to have surgery to put pins in the bone today, which meant i wasn't allowed to eat -- today, though, the o.r. is fully booked so surgery can't be until tomorrow, thus i can eat, and thus be fed percosets that have finally dulled the pain. finally.
the surgeon said if the swelling is not down today, she can't operate on it for two weeks. i don't have two weekss! sigh. i am begging them to do this now, before my oregon vacation, before my summer is essentially shot. especially because those are two weeks i would basically be bed-bound, at home, bored out of my skull. fuck. i do not have two weeks. so i'm trying to plead my case as best i can.
challenge of the afternoon: pee in a basin. try not to cry too much when they unwrap the jones bandage to look at the swelling. i can't move it without the bones grinding together and producing the most excruiciating pain.
fun facts: my roommate snored all night, extremely loudly, and now that she's awake, she likes to play pornographic books on tape outloud so we can all hear. no headphones. wtf.
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Date: 2006-07-12 05:44 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-07-12 05:58 pm (UTC)insurance = good to go, thank god.
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Date: 2006-07-12 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 06:23 pm (UTC)Thank goodness for Percoset and medical insurance.
♥
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Date: 2006-07-12 06:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-07-12 07:16 pm (UTC)I wish you the speediest recovery. Poor dear.
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:33 pm (UTC)look, if they say they won't operate on it for two weeks just threaten them with mom's pending arrival. she's a powerful force, you know that.
i love you, heal quickly, i'm looking forward to your visit!
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:38 pm (UTC)lots of ice and elevating last night, but now i just have this fancy 'jones' wrap, which is like eight layers of gauze and ace, with a hard-set splint somewhere in there, too. the pressure of it will help the swelling reduce on its own, apparently. not sure, but probably will get an anti-inflam once i check out, too.
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:39 pm (UTC)(congratulations on your new job, though!)
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:40 pm (UTC)one of my fav natalie goldberg quotes:
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.”
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:41 pm (UTC)kiss your ankles, thank them for being whole!
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-07-12 08:47 pm (UTC)xoxo.
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Date: 2006-07-12 08:50 pm (UTC)And who knew that there was a pornographic books-on-tape market?
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Date: 2006-07-12 10:56 pm (UTC)i empathize wholeheartedly.
hooray percoset though. always nice.
..........
say, do you think yr roommate could burn some
of those audio tapes & send them our way?
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Date: 2006-07-13 04:46 am (UTC)you poor darling. just reading about it makes me queasy, i cannot fathom how awful it must be in reality. yay for percoset, though. i once hurt my back in a bizarre way and got percoset from the lovely folks at the ER. those were a couple of fun days.
also, earplugs are great.
(hughug)
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Date: 2006-07-13 02:25 pm (UTC)i'm home now, so thank god for no more crazy elderly softcore-listening roommates.
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