Well Girls, I haven't been on-line for a couple of days because I fell and hurt myself. Wednesday am I was leaving the house to go to work. We have 3 steps on our back porch. My right ankle gave out on the top step, I twisted my left ankle REALLY bad and landed on the cement on my left arm, squishing my boob, bruising my wrist and arm and wrenching my back! My hubby heard me scream and came running. We immediately took my shoe and sock off and it was already sweeling up huge and purple!! He picked my up and put me in the car. We almost got in an accident in the hospital drive way! The took me right in and x-rayed my foot and ankle. The dr came over, glanced at it and asked my medical history. I told him about my IBS and that I sometimes take Vicodin for it and than he totally treated my like a drug addict!!!!! Will had just gotten up so was in sweats and not shaved and the dr totally judged us!!  It was obvious with my foot swelling 3 times the normal size and black and blue and me crying hysterically it hurt so bad, that I wasn't there looking for drugs!!
The dr never came back. The nurse brought over this little splint thing and sent me home. The only instruction I was given was to call a Dr. Trummes in 10 days for a follow up. I was in SO much pain I couldn't stop crying. They never gave me any sort of rx. Luckily, I did have some Vicodin at home from my tummy so I started taking them right away. I almost passed out several times it hurt so bad. I laid flat on my back in bed with my foot up. Thursday am it still hurt just as bad so I asked Will to bring me the phone. Just then, the phone rings and it was my regular internist I see. Apparently the hospital had sent her a report of the accident. She told me the radiologist who looked at the x-ray suggested I call an orthopedica surgeon because the area all around my ankle was very dark, meaning I probably had torn everything and they saw what might be a bone fragment!!! I did call the hospital yesterday and file a complaint against the dr and the inadaquent care I received! This was at Beaumont hospital, its supposed to be one of the best hospitals!
So, I start by calling the dr listed on my instruction sheet, guess what? The dr they gave me is a BACK specialist and doesn't even do ankles and is out of town for two weeks!! So, I just start calling orthopedic surgeons from the phone book. I finally found one that could get me in Friday am. Thursday was awful. I was in so much pain. Will drove me to the dr this morning and he took one look at it and said I needed to be in a cast! They have me in a mobilization cast for at least three weeks. At that point they will re-evaluate it and I'll probably be in some sort of walking boot for a while and physical therapy. The dr doesn't think I'll need surgery at this time! I told him I was trying to get pregnant and he gave me the green light to keep trying.
So, I made it into the office today to put out a few fires but I'm still hurting. It's hard to use the crutches because my arm and wrist hurt. I was not able to keep my obgyn appt so no chlomid for me this month! I hope this post is coherent, they had me take two Vicodin at the dr offices before they atrting wrenching it to put the cast on-boy, did that hurt!  Its starting to calm down and I'm hoping it will start to feel better now thats its in the cast.
Heather, sorry I didn't get back to you about your moms braclet. I do have the beads on order and I still plan on seeing you in a couple of weeks!
I'll try to catch up on posts, hope everyone else is doing better than me! 
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