ice packs from the edge

[indigo_rose99]

There are moments in life when I am grateful that I have truly wonderful friends.  Today was one of them.

With T out of town, our friends are being really lovely.  Inviting me to lunch.  Courtney is coming to visit later in the week.  And today I went rollerblading with raaga123.  Which turned to to be way more exciting that such exercise is supposed to be. Going down a hill and around a curve, I took a tumble.  Somehow it managed to involve both elbows (no pads), one knee (no pads), my right butt cheek (duh), my tail bone, and my head (no helmet).  I left a really amazing pool of blood on the pavement.  Head wounds bleed a lot, don't you know?

raaga123 took me to the emergency room (don't tell T this part until after he returns, I managed to very carefully leave the words "emergency room" out of my email to him).  The scrapes, including the head wound, hurt like such scrapes always do.  Yes, feel free to wince in sympathy.  No, the really painful part was my tailbone.  Getting up, getting into and out of  raaga123's car, climbing onto the examination table to be examined by a doctor were possibly among the most painful experiences of my entire life.   The x-ray technician was amazingly nice.  But perhaps that was because I went from following her very slowly  but conversationally down hallways to crying and shaking from the pain of simply climbing onto the x-ray bed.  Turns out, they can take perfectly good x-rays even if you are shaking uncontrollably. 

According to the experts, I do not have anything broken and do not have a concussion.  Yay, I'm not injuring myself worse by moving!

I'm home (raaga123 would not let me drive), and drugged up.  I'm taking the max dosage at the shortest end of the time span.  The words, "Tomorrow will be worse" hang over my head like a...  Well, you get the idea.  If today is this bad, I plan on spending tomorrow as drugged up as I possibly can.  If I can spend the next 48 hours asleep, I will. 

I have several friends planning on calling me to check in.  My friend and neighbor, Bruce is going to call and I'll ask him to help me put the futon down (sitting is harder than being horizontal.  At least, I hope it is.).  In the meantime, I'm rotating ice packs.

Comments

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

If you changed your mind about body flow Tuesday, you could have just told me. You really didn't need to go to all this trouble.

I hope you feel better soon. Or at least sleep very well. I am glad they didn't have to put you in a body cast. (How do you splint tail bones?)

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Really would not have intentionally gone to this much trouble to avoid Body Flow.

I don't think they DO split tail bones. Which is why they gave me so many pain killers -- just in case it is cracked, this is still the best they can do.

[fraeuleinchen.livejournal.com]

I wonder if it was the same curve that took a bite out of *me*... on my first trip to the Veloway back in 8/06. Your T and that same raaga123 helped me through, though I was not in bad shape by comparison: a gash on my arm was the bulk of the damage (was a scaredy-cat wearing knee pads but *not* the elbow pads). I'm sorry to hear about your accident and that you didn't break any bones... I hope your drugs work well and without any side effects!

[raaga123.livejournal.com]

No, not the same curve. This one was much earlier in the circuit. Fortunately it was close to a street access, so we could walk out and I could blade back for the car!

[mr-efficient.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I promise that lunch with me will never involve exercise, and will almost never involve bloodshed.

[tiger-stripes.livejournal.com]

*hug* I will be handing you virtual icepacks, band-aids, etc.

[raaga123.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to read that people are keeping tabs on you! I hope you're starting to feel better.