Someone went BOOM today...

[monkey68]

... and that someone was me! I went back to campus this morning to take an exam, and the whole time, I was worried about what would the roads look like, since I have to take some side streets to get there, and after the storm this weekend, things still weren't that great. Turns out, it wasn't the roads I should have been worried about.

I'm walking from the parking lot to the building, and of course the path is rather hilly. You think that someone would be smart enough when they're clearing the path to maybe sprinkle some salt and make sure the hilly parts are not icy? Nope, of course not. So i'm walking downhill, and didn't see a huge patch of ice. Took a rather lovely fall. Tried to get up, fell again. Finally ended up sliding over to the side where the snow was and got up and walked the rest of the way in 15 inches of snow. Good thing I had my waterproof snow boots on. The best part was when I fell, one of the office workers was behind me, and first she yells out if I'm OK. Then she goes "Is it really icy over there?" I wanted to yell to her "No, I just got tired on the walk from the car and decided the ground would be a lovely place to sit" Seriously, what does she think? Of course it's icy!

So now I'm sitting here with a lovely bruise on my elbow, a swollen collarbone, a freakishly swollen hand, and a painful knee. All this before the actual exam, just because I felt so confident going into it, I had to make it harder for myself. And of course, it was my dominant hand I fell on.

 

[dakcp2001]

ugh, what a day! Hope your feeling better and your test goes well!

 

[JCJRSmith]

Sorry to hear about that. How did the test go?

 

[monkey68]

The test went pretty well, fortunately it was on a scantron, so I was able to bubble in with the other hand, took me longer, but we were given 3 hours to answer 100 questions, so I had plenty of time. I didn't realize how much my hand was hurting until I realized I couldn't hold the pencil. Lucky for me, I am somewhat ambidextrous.

I'm actually considering going to urgent care tomorrow if I can't get in with my regular doctor, because I'm actually starting to get a bit concerned. I've been icing it and have it wrapped up, but it keeps getting bigger and bigger and more and more painful. I took a bunch of Aleve already and it didn't even touch the pain. I have some Percocet left over from when I had surgery, but I had some bad side effects from it, so I'd rather not take it. I'm supposed to leave for a cruise on Saturday, so it would be really terrible if there was a fracture.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Wow.

I would definitely go to urgent care--take it easy through the night.

Hopefully it's just a sprain if it is anything at all.

 

[monkey68]

Just an update... just came back from the ortho. He's actually a great guy, when I called, they said I could see one of the others in the practice since he was going to leave to go to the hospital to do surgery, but I didn't care who I saw, so I got an appt. with someone else. He sees me in the waiting room as he's about to leave, and says he'll see me anyway, so I got through without any wait, which is unheard of in this office.

Anyway, they took x-rays, and they couldn't tell if I fractured my scaphoid or not. He called in one of the other ortho's to take a look at it, but he also couldn't tell. Sometimes, you can't tell if it's broken until a couple weeks afterwards. So they're treating me like I have a broken scaphoid; because of the poor blood supply, they err on the side of caution with these things. So I now get to wear a nifty thumb spica cast for at least 2 weeks until I go back for another x-ray. And did I mention that I leave on Saturday for a cruise? What a great accessory the cast will be on formal night!

 

[JCJRSmith]

Just an update... just came back from the ortho. He's actually a great guy, when I called, they said I could see one of the others in the practice since he was going to leave to go to the hospital to do surgery, but I didn't care who I saw, so I got an appt. with someone else. He sees me in the waiting room as he's about to leave, and says he'll see me anyway, so I got through without any wait, which is unheard of in this office.

Anyway, they took x-rays, and they couldn't tell if I fractured my scaphoid or not. He called in one of the other ortho's to take a look at it, but he also couldn't tell. Sometimes, you can't tell if it's broken until a couple weeks afterwards. So they're treating me like I have a broken scaphoid; because of the poor blood supply, they err on the side of caution with these things. So I now get to wear a nifty thumb spica cast for at least 2 weeks until I go back for another x-ray. And did I mention that I leave on Saturday for a cruise? What a great accessory the cast will be on formal night!

Well, better safe than sorry. Hope you feel better soonest.