Deanna home

[Guest guest]

Deanna,

Poop kid, I hope you feel better soon and you get lots of

pain pills and sleep. Thanks for letting us know what happened. It’s a

good thing you went to the Dr.

I just thought of something strange. Anyone healthy and not

used to chronic pain every day of life would have gone to the hosp. right away after

the fall. I think she or he would have recognized the pain was serious right

away. When we live with chronic pain, we get used to it and tend to ignore

things we shouldn’t. Does anyone else think that might be true? I know

my husband gets a cold and it’s the end of the world but he doesn’t

want me to complain about my pain every day. Of course, who would?

Please take care,

From: Mojo

(Joanna)

Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:50

AM

To: LUPIES

Subject: Re: I'm home

from the ER

Deanna, you better take care of that

shoulder, or you're going to be completely " crooked " . I can already

imagine you: limping on your right leg, your left shoulder slouching down.

'Thinking of you and wishing a speedy

recovery.

Mojo

I'm home from the ER

Well 5 hours later I am finally home. Did not get brought

back to the treatment area until a little after midnight.

Once I was back there it went quick. Got the X-rays and pain

med, sling, and then released.

Now to explain what happened. Most of you know I developed

severe Osteonecrosis in my right knee (thanks to prednisone) I have to use a

cane to get around but in the house I never use it. Well anyways, I was having

pain in that shoulder since yesterday and I just figured it was sore because of

mowing the lawn over the weekend with the rider. Well today I was walking from

the bathroom into the family room when my right knee gave out on me and well

down I went, and I landed on my left shoulder. I just decided to take some Tylenol

and go on about my daily stuff. The pain continued to get worse and it got to

the point were I could not even move any fingers without a sharp throbbing

pain. I told Mike and he wanted me

to call PCP and see if I could go into Afterhours. Well PCP felt I most likely

had dislocated my shoulder and wanted me in the ER (he knows I hate the ER) So

I went like a good lil’ girl.

According to the X-rays I have a fractured Clavicle and most

likely sprained my shoulder. So the Dr. said I needed to get into my Ortho to

follow up – She gave me a sling, told me to ice as much as possible, gave

me 10 Dilaudid pills to hold me over till I can get script filled, and sent me

home. (Forgot to mention that before they took me to X-rays they gave me a shot

of Dilaudid in the good ol’ ass area J)

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