Tripped and fell on my right side Wednesday morning and broke my shoulder. Took 3 EMT's to get me up and onto the gurney. Fire station is just a half mile away; ambulance is a mile away. Was treated at an ER hospital 2 miles away and sent home with my arm in a sling. Will see an orthopedist at 1:30 today and see if she wants to do more than use a sling until I heal - which I am told is the standard treatment.
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Steve@Advance
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OUCH! Bad way to start the day! Hoping for a speedy and complete recovery.
Ellis Kinney
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You really type well left handed. Ellis
MarkB_MI
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I wish you a quick recovery, or at least one quicker than my own.
Back in February I dislocated my shoulder while skiing. Certainly the most painful experience I've ever had. At urgent care, they doped me, reset the shoulder and sent me home with a bottle of pain pills. For various reasons, it was three weeks before I got around to seeing an orthopedist. He ordered an MRI and an EMG (electromyogram, nerve test). Conclusion: I had a bone chip in a very bad place and serious nerve damage. Doc said he needed to operate ASAP. Had the bony bankhart surgery on April Fools Day and have been slowly recovering since then. I can finally get a good night's sleep, after three months waking up in pain at 2 am. Doc says I will get most of my nerves back in a year.
Good luck. Seriously.
Back in February I dislocated my shoulder while skiing. Certainly the most painful experience I've ever had. At urgent care, they doped me, reset the shoulder and sent me home with a bottle of pain pills. For various reasons, it was three weeks before I got around to seeing an orthopedist. He ordered an MRI and an EMG (electromyogram, nerve test). Conclusion: I had a bone chip in a very bad place and serious nerve damage. Doc said he needed to operate ASAP. Had the bony bankhart surgery on April Fools Day and have been slowly recovering since then. I can finally get a good night's sleep, after three months waking up in pain at 2 am. Doc says I will get most of my nerves back in a year.
Good luck. Seriously.
Owen Aaland
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I had a ladder slip and dump me on the floor from about six feet. I remember putting out my arm to protect my head. You are right about the pain from a dislocated shoulder. When I was in the ER the nurse asked me how my arm was. I told her the only thing that hurt was the shoulder. She wanted me to move my arm and I found out I couldn't. The elbow had also been crushed. The result was surgery on the shoulder and elbow to add hardware and another on the elbow to remove the pins, screws and wires. It was nearly two years before I finally was able to fully use that arm again.
Davy Fireball
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This is tool talk. You have to show us your sling and talk about capacity. Really I'm glad you didn't get hurt worse than you did.
I took pics of my arm but decided not to show them. I have very lttle capacity right now, most of my strength left me. I had trouble getting up and out of the bed, couldn't raise my upper body with one arm as there wasn't anything to grab onto.
Got a cargo strap out of the truck, had my wife hook it to a front leg of the bed and ran the strap up over the bed. Now I can just grab the strap and slowly pull myself to a sitting position so I can stand up. Works for me.
Got a cargo strap out of the truck, had my wife hook it to a front leg of the bed and ran the strap up over the bed. Now I can just grab the strap and slowly pull myself to a sitting position so I can stand up. Works for me.
Davy Fireball
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Please forgive me. In my poor attempt to make a joke from your misery. I'm sorry you hurt.
Awlknottedup
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If you smoke and are worried about your bones, stop smoking TODAY. A couple of years ago my SIL fell on her knee and hit a small sharp rock (the Ozark flower). She shattered her knee and part of the lower leg bones. She had extensive surgeries with enough hardware to build hog proof gate sticking out of the cast. She almost lost a foot from swelling and now almost three years later she still has troubles.
She was a heavy smoker for the last 50 years and has COPD. The doctor told her that smoking causes significant bone loss and her injury could have been much less.
She was a heavy smoker for the last 50 years and has COPD. The doctor told her that smoking causes significant bone loss and her injury could have been much less.
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