Upon return from our previous fishing excursion; I stepped onto the deck to wipe my shoes off with a boot scraper and instantly, I was on my back. The wet wood coupled with algae/lichen or whatever was enough to make me slip and fall.
The damage was two broken fingers, a wrenched shoulder and messed up hip. The fingers still look pretty bad and thankfully the shoulder has healed up well. The right hip on the other hand is very painful.
Fortunately the shoulder pain was pretty much gone by the time the hip flared up. I woke her up around 0130 on a Wednesday and asked her to drive me to the ER. She knows I have a pretty high pain threshold so she figured it was serious.
The ride to the ER was agonizing as I could not sit nor lie down. I literally stood in the examine room while they tried to work on me. They gave me a Fentanyl injection and were amazed that I was still standing there. The shot did absolutely nothing. Next up was a Dilaudid injection which took the edge off but still did not provide any relief. After being forced to lie down for a CT scan, which was not pleasant, I was back in the room and still standing. By the time the pain had eased just enough for me to finally sit on the hospital bed, the nurse came in and said the CT scan was clear and didn’t show any fractures or dislocations. Then she handed me the discharge papers with a prescription for 12 Percocet tablets. She suggested that I see an Orthopedic specialist as soon as possible.
Now…I’m not a doctor, but if Fentanyl and Dilaudid didn’t provide any relief, then what makes anyone think that Percocet was going to do anything? But that’s just me I guess.
Thankfully there was a cancellation at the Orthopedic specialists office and he could see me the next day. The 25 mile drive was excruciating but I was hoping that he might finally give me some relief. Nope. He said the CT scan wasn’t very good and only showed half of the hip but he didn’t think an x-ray, CT scan or MRI was necessary and that Motrin would help me. If the pain didn’t get better then he suggested I go to the ER again. UGH!
At this point I am really getting frustrated. I called my primary Care Physician to make an appointment. I figured I could suffer through one more day and explain everything to my doctor. Later that evening I get a cancellation notice from the doctors office and was urged to reschedule. My doctor had the flu. This all happened on February 7th and 8th by the way.
Needless to say it is currently February 18th and I am out of Percocet and have been bedridden since the 9th. Sleep has been virtually impossible and I still cannot sit down. I do have a doctors appointment for Tuesday the 20th which I am seriously looking forward to. None of this makes sense to me. I am not impressed with any of the treatment I have had so far but hopefully that will change. If it wasn’t for an old tens unit we had lying around, the pain would be a lot worse than it is now. I will add that not one doctor or nurse cared one iota about my broken fingers. They never even looked at them despite me asking for them to do so.
Fingers crossed that this is nothing serious and I’ll be back on my feet soon. As always, thanks for reading.
Velox Seeker 