Oh my where do I start ?
Ok, so I've broken both arms, both collarbones, three fingers, broken both of my big toes repeatedly, and my pinky toes too many times to count. Cracked six ribs on my left side and five on my right. Most fun was when my second child actually cracked my ribs while he was in the womb. Three on one side, two on the other. Spending the last month and a half of my pregnancy and going through labor with cracked ribs was no fun at all.
Let's see, I have also dislocated my left hip once, my shoulder twice, broke my left wrist so badly I need a 3 1/2" steel plate and 8 screws to hold it back together. That was just about the worst injury, because they could not do surgery for a week after the break because of swelling. Spending a week with your wrist broken so badly the doctor said it was a miracle I didn't amputate that hand at the wrist wrapped up in nothing but an ACE bandage was just about the longest seven days of my life. I was taking 1000 milligrams of Ibuprofen and 1000 milligrams of vicodin, and it never stopped hurting!
Other than that, my absolute worst experience isn't technically an injury. I had an ovarian cyst the size of an orange rupture while I was at work. The pain was beyond words. It took three EMT tech to pick me up off the floor in the fetal position and lay me on the stretcher. They gave me enough Morphine to put an elephant down, so said my nurse, and I couldn't stop screaming. Thankfully it stopped bleeding on it's own. My doctor said, after he finally figured out what it was, that I probably would have bled to death right there in the ER before they found out what was wrong!
So, those sum up most of my battle scars.
Gale
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