Drive safe??? WALK safe!!!!!

Wow! You must have been a challenge for that ortho surgeon to put back together! I hope you've got some good pain meds. Was the rib broken? That's especially painful because you can't really avoid breathing and every single breath hurts. If anybody asks what happened, tell them it was a skateboarding accident. :W That's what I hear is the cause of most elbow fractures. Feel better soon.

CA POPPY wrote:
Oh, no, you poor thing! I've had several of those accidents in the past few years and I know how it feels to have the ground come up and smack the daylights right out of you! Here's what will sound like a dumb question: Have you had your eyes checked recently? The reason I ask is because I have glaucoma and have lost a lot of peripheral vision. A couple of my accidents were similar to yours because if I am looking straight ahead, I cannot see what is on the ground in front of me, like curbs, rocks, holes or my dog. When I realized that was what was happening, I found that I could compensate by looking around more. But get some rest, take your meds and heal quickly. Gravity is our enemy. We first meet it as small children but in later years, it works harder at pulling us underground for good. Take care and don't let gravity win! :B

it's been 2 yrs.... might b good idea for check.

ok...surgery was tues. in full cast on lft aem. broke 2 bones in lft elbow, 1 of them in 3 pieces. fractured lft wrist and right elboe and did something to my lft shoulder............. arrrrrrrrrgh

thank yu everyone

CA POPPY, you have such a way with words lol. Another thing I need to watch out for is picking my feet high enough to get on the upper surface of things like curbs etc. That can be a blow to the knees for sure!

Oh, no, you poor thing! I've had several of those accidents in the past few years and I know how it feels to have the ground come up and smack the daylights right out of you! Here's what will sound like a dumb question: Have you had your eyes checked recently? The reason I ask is because I have glaucoma and have lost a lot of peripheral vision. A couple of my accidents were similar to yours because if I am looking straight ahead, I cannot see what is on the ground in front of me, like curbs, rocks, holes or my dog. When I realized that was what was happening, I found that I could compensate by looking around more. But get some rest, take your meds and heal quickly. Gravity is our enemy. We first meet it as small children but in later years, it works harder at pulling us underground for good. Take care and don't let gravity win! :B

Hope you get through this without any repercussions. Get your bone density checked just in case.

Sorry for your accident.

I think that is the same rest area along I-40 that my wife fell in years ago and sprained her ankle severely. Good luck on your road to recovery.

Just hearing about it makes my gut shiver!! Sounds like you got home OK, maybe they will give you good drugs to keep you from too much pain and such. Hope the new doc helps out, and gets you back on the road soon!

Oh...we did.....that day was a 12 hr day (including ER), then 2 8 hour days. Got home about 3:30 Thurs.....called an ortho I'd NEVER been to and got in at 8:00 the next morning!!!! How's that for service!!!! :)

Ouch Dee! ((hugs)) Hope you make it home safe and sound!