Friday, March 14, 2008

Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!!

Wednesday morning I was heading to work as usual; had my hands full with my tote bag, my purse and trash for the dumpster. I locked my door, dropped my keys in my coat pocket and started down the stairs. The first flight was business as usual...the second, not so much. Two steps down and my boot heel got caught in my pants cuff and down I went. Besides landing pretty hard on my left shoulder and hip, I also managed to do some serious damage to my left ankle and foot. I called 911 and rode to the hospital with some very cute and very nice paramedics (I'm not just saying that because they gave me morphine either). Once at the ER several doctors and nurses stopped by to look at my Amazing Swelling Ankle - it Swells! it turns Blue!! The entire staff told me what a good job I had done. What do you all think?




After sitting there for 4 hours and watching my foot get bigger and more blue, they decided that they couldn't tell if it was broken or not because the tissue was too swollen to see through on the x-rays. Great. They sent me home with a half-cast, crutches, 20 Percocet and instructions to follow up with an orthopedic surgeon on Monday. Yippee Skippy.

5 Comments:

Blogger Carl Spackler said...

that is one nasty ankle...but i hope you get better soon.

besides, we need you in top condition in case i visit denver soon.

9:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

holy crap! that looks horrid. i so hope you're okay. i fell too the other day and banged up my bad arm, but you poor thing got crippled. lol. hang in there and feel better soon.

8:22 PM  
Blogger Southern Sweetheart said...

Yowsers!!!! That's a huge ankle lady! I'm sorry you fell - I've done that to my ankle more times than not and it sucks majorly. I hope it gets better soon and I know that the percocet will help! :) Get well Dear!

9:47 PM  
Blogger kcterrilynn said...

Well, it's not broken (which I thought was good news); I have what they call a 'severe high ankle sprain.' The doc says that's not much better than a break. It's going to take just as long, if not longer to heal, so looks as if I'm on crutches for several more weeks. Yippee-fuckin-skippy.

It's still about that swollen but now, besides just blue, it's got all kinds of colors: black, red, purple...and I'm talking really black, oh-my-god-red and holy-shit-purple. It's a sight to behold!

2:13 PM  
Blogger DrDon said...

Glad you explained that picture. I thought it was a shank of bologna.

11:06 AM  

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