dazzledbylight
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& S K & GG2
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I have to DO laundry!
What's for DIn, K?
& S K & GG2
I have to DO laundry!
What's for DIn, K?
Soooo...Sarah broke her ankle in two places today.
Poor Sarah! Sounds like she's a pretty brave girl if she thought she just sprained it! Hope her birthday will be nice even with the broken leg.Sorry, had to go heat us up some food, we haven't eaten yet. Good thing there are b-day party leftovers.
She was home all weekend for her b-day (which is actually tomorrow, yay, what a way to spend it) and went back last night. Today, she was walking to school and we were on the phone. Suddenly the phone just went dead. I figured the connection dropped or something, tried calling back, no answer. Two minutes later she called me. She was walking through a rec center parking lot a few blocks from her house, went to step over a curb, caught her foot and went down. She was crying/in a panic on the phone, said she "sprained her ankle," felt sick, felt like she was going to pass out, so I calmed her down, and she said there was a nice man who stopped to help her, and was going to drive her home. I was grateful of course, but also worried about the whole stranger thing. Oh, when she fell, the phone dropped and the battery came out of it, and the guy fixed it so she could call me back.
He got her home, helped her to the door, and then one of her roommates helped her into her room. She had it elevated with ice, took advil, I offered to come right then but she said no, wait a few hours and see how it is. So, we chatted and stuff, then around 4:30 she told me to come, said it was swollen worse than she'd ever seen it (she's sprained it a few times in the past, but never to the point where she nearly passed out)...so, I left right after that, got to her place, took one look at it, and it was SO swollen (she said she didn't know how bad it was, since she'd had an ice pack over it) and her foot was just sort of on an angle that made me cringe and think that this wasn't good.
Packed her things, her roommate helped me get her in the car, and we drove to the urgent care clinic in Paris, at their small hospital (which is about 15 minutes from Brantford, but they're known for being a LOT faster than our walk ins or ER). They x-rayed it, the doctor said it's broken pretty badly in two places, but that he thinks she shouldn't need surgery. He got us an appt for an orthopedic surgeon at our hospital at 9 am tomorrow. He said the surgeon can make the decision re surgery, and will probably reset it and put a bigger cast on it. For tonight, she has a half cast halfway up her shin to keep it stable for the night, and she has a prescription for Tylenol 3s.
So, fingers crossed for tomorrow.
Oh, and, thank god for that man being there. I'd love to find out who he is, and thank him.
Bleh, got 2 hrs sleep. :coffeeIV:
GG, she said after she thinks she was in denial.
GG, I had to get up, to have her at the hospital to see the surgeon by 9 am.
Anyway, we're home now, no surgery.
The surgeon looked at the x-rays from last night, checked her ankle and said he thought that the ligaments on the one side were still in good shape, and that that would help stabilize it hopefully. He said they'd cast it, then do another x-ray with the cast on to see if the fractures were held together adequately. They were. After the exam, cast, x-rays, then back to see the dr again for the news, then she had to go up to physio to have a crutch lesson.
So, she has a full cast from her toes up to the knee, it'll be on for 8 weeks, she's to put absolutely no weight on it during that time, and the surgeon wants to see her again in 9 days.
I have noooo idea what she's going to do about school. It's a 5 minute walk to the bus stop from her place, a 15 minute walk to the campus, and then assuming she could even get to the campus, once she's there, it's all hills and stairs. She has two weeks of classes after this week, and then only two exams. The exams are no problem, I can drive her and wait, it's just the classes.
Ummm, I wasn't even lurking here wtf?
Gah, I'm so frustrated right now. I allowed myself to think about things that I haven't let myself think about for awhile. Dammit.
Hi dazz!
Good luck with the eye doctor tomorrow! Hopefully it won't be too expensive. I went to the eye doctor last month, and it had been 7 years since my last visit. Whoops! Let's just say I needed a slightly more intense prescription after all that time!
i onc edid that --- not seeing my eye doc for 7 yrs.
and i only went b/c my eyes seemed to doing something "offish" it was okay..... basically stress on my part.