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My life is becoming a bad House episode...
18 years ago
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This will have to be a brief note--because I can't sit at the computer long enough to write a long note. I have spent 2 days in the ER this past week. The first time was on Monday--Bel fell at work and hurt her foot. We feared it was broken and took her to an ER in Seattle--HORRIBLE mistake! We got to the ER just before 5pm and left for the hour drive back home at ONE O'CLOCK IN THE FUCKING AM! Eight hours...for an Xray and a perscription of oxycodone. They did give her morphine after the first few hours of waiting...but beyond that, it was a hideous nightmare and I vowed never to set foot in an ER again!
Naturally, I was rushed to one in an ambulance 3 days later. This time it was my turn. I woke up on Thursday morning and discovered I couldn't stand or even sit up for more than a few minutes without a pain in the back of my leg going from a dull ache to a searing, intense agony. Not wanting to go to an ER for what I figure was a pinched nerve, I waiting for a local Urgent Care clinic to open and Edmund drove me to it (I had to lay flat in the passenger seat.)
When we got there, the walk into the building became so excrusiating that I could NOT stand any longer, but sitting was just as bad and I ended up lying on the floor in front of the bathroom trying to make the pain stop for just a bit.
Naturally, this caused all hell to break loose. They assumed I had collapsed, and it was hard to dissuade them because I was lying there gasping with pain. 911 was called. Cute firemen showed up and I was able to explain a bit better what was going on. By then an ambulance had arrived to convey me away from the relatively inexpensive services of the clinic to the ruinous luxury of an ER. Fortunately, THIS ER was a good one...I was only there for 3 and a half hours.
But where Bel only had a badly sprained ankle (albeit severely painful and needed to be bandaged up and kept off of for days), I had lucked out with a deluxe package of bulging disks and pinched up nerves. Joy!
Now I am wildly hopped up on my own set of persriptions--including my very OWN percasets--which has allowed me to sit here long enough to record this event.
So...I worked one day this week...and IT was the highlight.
Naturally, I was rushed to one in an ambulance 3 days later. This time it was my turn. I woke up on Thursday morning and discovered I couldn't stand or even sit up for more than a few minutes without a pain in the back of my leg going from a dull ache to a searing, intense agony. Not wanting to go to an ER for what I figure was a pinched nerve, I waiting for a local Urgent Care clinic to open and Edmund drove me to it (I had to lay flat in the passenger seat.)
When we got there, the walk into the building became so excrusiating that I could NOT stand any longer, but sitting was just as bad and I ended up lying on the floor in front of the bathroom trying to make the pain stop for just a bit.
Naturally, this caused all hell to break loose. They assumed I had collapsed, and it was hard to dissuade them because I was lying there gasping with pain. 911 was called. Cute firemen showed up and I was able to explain a bit better what was going on. By then an ambulance had arrived to convey me away from the relatively inexpensive services of the clinic to the ruinous luxury of an ER. Fortunately, THIS ER was a good one...I was only there for 3 and a half hours.
But where Bel only had a badly sprained ankle (albeit severely painful and needed to be bandaged up and kept off of for days), I had lucked out with a deluxe package of bulging disks and pinched up nerves. Joy!
Now I am wildly hopped up on my own set of persriptions--including my very OWN percasets--which has allowed me to sit here long enough to record this event.
So...I worked one day this week...and IT was the highlight.
D:
If only hospitals were more like Scrubs.
My mom has something similar, and I've inherited that, so I know at least a small portion of what you're goin' through.
Again, I wish you and your friend a speedy recovery.
Well so much bout the new year being better. :/ my best wishes to you pup, I hope you can recover quick.
And avoid ambulances too, if you aren't dying call a cab.
And remember, your foot's never broken. No matter how purple it gets unless you hear a snap it's just sprained.
I don't envy you about your situation. I've had my own problems with degraded discs and irritated nerves. I can tell you that chiropractic and stretching/exercise will go along way towards a natural healing and re hydration of your discs.
Best wishes and I hope you are better soon.
the 'doctors' wanted to cut out my disks and fuse my back permanently to be in a wheelchair the rest of my life with no feeling below the chest! i have had my back twisted 90 degrees once, in one visit i was walking straight out the door, no meds needed!
go to a chiropracter ive thrown my back out nine times but i always am WAY better till i do something else that was dumb (lifted 800 pounds at my job because i was waiting for the overhead crane and did not want the foreman to come over and yell at me for doing nothing for another hour).
so i hefted each one up on a shoulder and walked it across the room to stand next to shipping ready to go to the client, then thinking i should at least balance the load, went back with the other 800 pound recently welded stainless steel intake and exhaust manifold for underwater testing of next gen nissan engines, over to the same place.
bending down to grab a dog through the stake table i twisted wrong, zigged when i should of zagged, and was 90 degrees to the direction my feet were pointing.
i went to the chiropracter BEFORE the pain set in i had about an hour. My miracle twisted me back into pointed in all the right directions in about ten minutes. i walked straight ever since!
But just to let you know if you bottom it gets your back out of whack you need a chiropracter to fix this. sorry to hear about your pain, but stop going to medical doctors they don't bother with studying of the spinal column except on how to cut parts off.
if you need to i can call my old chiropracter and ask for his alma mater of one that is close to seattle. the closest one to me is in San Fransisco!
When I had to go there again because of the checkups it just was hours and hours and hours of dumb waiting... guess the longest time we have been there just for taking some x rays and chatting some with the doc was eight hours.... 90% of those eight hours was waiting....
But hope you get well soon again *hugs*
Bulging disks sound excruciating. Get better, hun. And I hope your friend's ankle feels better, too.
I hope everything works out for you. *Hug*
Worst pain I ever had was a slipped disk. Crazy thing is that often the pain seems to be coming from somewhere other than the actual place where the problem is... presumably because it's the spine.
Hope you feel better.