Oh The PAIN!! >_<

Jun 14, 2009

So last Sunday I returned from Virginia again...

So I begin my story:

I just took a four hour bus ride with my knee throbbing still in pain from running to the bus in the first place.  I slowly walk a distance to the 6 train and continue walking when I emerge from the subway on the way to the apartment.  A block away from the apartment I encounter my uncle who is, I am assuming, on his way to take care of my grandmother.  Since he is the only one that can lift her.

Let me explain, usually instead of keeping my uncle imprisioned within the house, we watch her, but when the stomach starts hurting we give him a call.  So as I was saying my uncle was on the way to the apartment, probably to take care of my grandmother, I see a lady in a wheelchair at the elevator door, and I with my things cannot fit into the elevator.  I decide to take the stairs as my uncle in front of me has, he holds the door open for me to enter first......And THAT is where it all goes wrong....

My first mistake was entering first, still in my mind I was thinking he has to go take care of grandma, so he would be in a rush.... That is my second mistake... because that makes me want to hurry not wanting my grandmother to soil herself, or be in alot of pain.  

So with a bag strapped to my back a bag in each hand I begin to hurry up the stairs. Third and final mistake... I heard it... nay I SAW it... it might sound like the cheesiest thing ever but as I heard it within my body, I saw it like a flash of CGI like in House or CSI when they show detailed features.

I heard a crack, a pop and I could hear a tear, within my body it wasnt a sound i heard with my ears, and I went down, yelling in the staircase not caring or embarassed at who heard my scream.  My uncle asked me if i was okay, and the person that I am so that I wouldnt hold him up in the staircase said, "yes I'm okay, go on ahead."  Then it took me twenty minutes to walk about five feet to the door.  

So I goto sit on the couch and just sit it out, my aunt over the phone is telling me to goto the emergency room, but I have never been tothe emergency room by myself, so funny that, i was afraid to go.  After scolding me on my nature, which is putting other people before me, I need to start putting 'me' first she says... easier said than done,  I convinced myself that I will be fine if I lay down for a few, in which case I hobbled down the hallway to my room. 

After laying for a moment I noticed that every movement hurt beyond imagination, I had the urge to use the restroom, another brilliant mistake.  Upon standing my knee buckled and with nothing to hold me back I landed back onto my bed... but not before hitting the cement wall with full force with my head.  Thus, knocking the proverbial sense into me, and I decided as I saw stars that I need to goto the emergency room.

I somehow made it to the street corner, hailed a cab to the hospital.  Where I was given no pain medication, an xray, and an immobilizing brace.  "your knee is normal"  he said, and sent me on my way with an appointment on monday.  NY hospitals what can I say.....

Luckily at home I still had the entire bottle of vicodin that I never used from the WLS surgery...  yay!
I had one that night and one the next day but haven't had need for it after that.  I am wearing my brace everyday, and have been walking on it very slowly, and carefully.  (Which did not stop me in the least from enjoying the puertorican festival on saturday)  W00t !  Trust me my calves are paying the price today. 

I have my appointment tomorrow..... well....today... in six hours.  LOL

I posted a couple of photos, I've never posted photos before so i'm psyched.   wheeee! lol ^_^
And I'm going to bed.

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