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fabrisseI fell this evening. There's a gap between the cement driveway and the lawn; my foot got caught which rolled my ankle. I landed hard on both wrists, but the big issue is the plastic bin I was carrying back into the house.
It's the liner to a metal trashcan. The top is fairly flexible, but the bottom is rigid. I landed hard enough on the xiphoid process that I was worried that I had damaged internal organs. I hadn't.
Sis got me to the emergency room because so many parts of my body were either bruising or swelling But the longer I waited at the ER, the more my bottom left rib hurt. It's cracked. My wrists and ankle are fine, too. My neck was feeling like I'd whiplashed (again), but the CAT scan showed no injuries to the brain or spine. It just hurts.
So, I'm on hydrocodone for the next few days. I was prescribed heavy duty lidocaine patches for the rib. And as I know from having cracked this rib before, I need to sleep propped up. I do some anyway for the asthma, but I've added a little more height for the rib.
On a funnier note, we put Nora in her crate before we go out just to keep her from rough housing with Nicky and potentially hurting her spine before it's fully healed. When we got home tonight, Nora was out of her crate. Sis was pretty sure she'd put Nora in, but there was a chance that the front flap hadn't been fully zipped. Nope. Nora has figured out that the crate is soft sided and pulled the side down enough that she could get over it. She's so proud of herself.
Here's hoping that all of you are doing better than I am.
It's the liner to a metal trashcan. The top is fairly flexible, but the bottom is rigid. I landed hard enough on the xiphoid process that I was worried that I had damaged internal organs. I hadn't.
Sis got me to the emergency room because so many parts of my body were either bruising or swelling But the longer I waited at the ER, the more my bottom left rib hurt. It's cracked. My wrists and ankle are fine, too. My neck was feeling like I'd whiplashed (again), but the CAT scan showed no injuries to the brain or spine. It just hurts.
So, I'm on hydrocodone for the next few days. I was prescribed heavy duty lidocaine patches for the rib. And as I know from having cracked this rib before, I need to sleep propped up. I do some anyway for the asthma, but I've added a little more height for the rib.
On a funnier note, we put Nora in her crate before we go out just to keep her from rough housing with Nicky and potentially hurting her spine before it's fully healed. When we got home tonight, Nora was out of her crate. Sis was pretty sure she'd put Nora in, but there was a chance that the front flap hadn't been fully zipped. Nope. Nora has figured out that the crate is soft sided and pulled the side down enough that she could get over it. She's so proud of herself.
Here's hoping that all of you are doing better than I am.
