PAIN - warning, not a funny post
I don't think I documented the pain, and I am going to do so.
When I fell on June 5, I knew instantly that I had broken my right leg. I heard the same sound and fell the same pain as when I had done the left leg 9 months earlier. How in the world could I have done this two times so close together? The left leg I had broken in October 2004 was agony to get strapped onto the stretcher and then again to get into the car and out of the car at the ER into a wheelchair. Oh yes, x-rays were agony too, but that is a given.
This time, once they got me strapped to the backboard (my second time having this done – last time at 18 after the motorcycle wreck) (which reminds me – talking about times I might very well have died, I suppose we have to include the falling through the ice while skating on the duck pond at approx. age 7, being in a house fire, and being hit by a car running a red light.)
As I was saying, once they got me strapped to the board, onto the stretcher, through those rotten cobblestones, through the ride and into the ER into a wheelchair, I was relatively stable until the x-rays (more agony – just the way it is.) However, the bad stuff started once we got back to the hotel and I tried to sleep! My leg was having muscle spasms and they were about 15 minutes apart and would wake me up screaming with pain! The second night, I was now in a temp. splint before my cast and again I was having spasms. The third night I decided to be proactive and instead of just suffering by screaming with pain, I screamed “STOP IT!” as loud as I coul each time a spasm would wrack my poor leg. Now, bear in mind that poor Keith has Pneumonia and is trying to sleep next to me while I am trying to cast out pain demons from my leg! Quite a situation! The next day I got an Rx for Flexuril, a muscle relaxer, and it stopped those spasms. I need to remember to request that any time I am laid up – I had terrible back spasms after my hysterectomy, and until we finally got the Fexuril going, I was in agony once again! I have no idea why these heavy duty pain drugs don’t even touch spasms!
When I fell on June 5, I knew instantly that I had broken my right leg. I heard the same sound and fell the same pain as when I had done the left leg 9 months earlier. How in the world could I have done this two times so close together? The left leg I had broken in October 2004 was agony to get strapped onto the stretcher and then again to get into the car and out of the car at the ER into a wheelchair. Oh yes, x-rays were agony too, but that is a given.
This time, once they got me strapped to the backboard (my second time having this done – last time at 18 after the motorcycle wreck) (which reminds me – talking about times I might very well have died, I suppose we have to include the falling through the ice while skating on the duck pond at approx. age 7, being in a house fire, and being hit by a car running a red light.)
As I was saying, once they got me strapped to the board, onto the stretcher, through those rotten cobblestones, through the ride and into the ER into a wheelchair, I was relatively stable until the x-rays (more agony – just the way it is.) However, the bad stuff started once we got back to the hotel and I tried to sleep! My leg was having muscle spasms and they were about 15 minutes apart and would wake me up screaming with pain! The second night, I was now in a temp. splint before my cast and again I was having spasms. The third night I decided to be proactive and instead of just suffering by screaming with pain, I screamed “STOP IT!” as loud as I coul each time a spasm would wrack my poor leg. Now, bear in mind that poor Keith has Pneumonia and is trying to sleep next to me while I am trying to cast out pain demons from my leg! Quite a situation! The next day I got an Rx for Flexuril, a muscle relaxer, and it stopped those spasms. I need to remember to request that any time I am laid up – I had terrible back spasms after my hysterectomy, and until we finally got the Fexuril going, I was in agony once again! I have no idea why these heavy duty pain drugs don’t even touch spasms!
posted by colbysmycat @ 6/08/2005 12:09:00 AM
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