A story we can laugh at now...
I live in an older farm hose. Very nice and updated but still has the old farm house features one of which is a very long steap stairway. At about 11pm last night I was coming from my room to the downstairs to get something ( don't even remember what). I stepped down on the first step and went head first all the way down the stairs bumping the wall with vairous body parts as I was descending. I new before I reached the end I was hurt badly. OF course I was home alone. But lucky me always having my cell phone in my hand (which I was able to keep hold of). I called my mom and she came righ down. I was on My stomach with legs still on the last step. She was able to log roll me over, put a pillow under my head and blanket under my knees. My head, neck, ribs, lower back, hip were punding and my legs were tingling. I was really scared. I told her she needed to call an amubulance. Here is the kicker. She takes 30 minues to clean and vaccum my house before she calls because she doesn't want them to see my house a mess. Call you believe that??? What a crock. I amscreaming and she is vaccuming. So she finally calls and they arrive quicly. of course put a c-collar on and put me on the back board. I was Ok until I arrived at the hospital and and they couldn't find a vein to get me pains meds in. I had a major anxiety attack from being strapped down and tried ripping everything off me. Oh and before that they cut all my clothes off (my favorite rolling stones sweatshirt and and favorite Pj pants. So I am having a horrible anxiety attack as they are sticking 5 times to try and get a vein. My hubby had met the paramedics there and was trying to calm me down. It was horrifying. They finally get a vein and give me 2mg of Ativan IV which did nothing because I take ativan everyday. They finally bring me in Zofran and dilaudid and I was able to calm down. being on that board was causing me more pain than I started with. I had to wait about 30 minutes which seemed like eternity to get a ct scan. then had to wait for the the results. My head and neck were fine so they took the collar and board off me. Gave me another load of dilaudid and there i wait to go get xrays. X-rays come back ok too I guess because they discharged me with get this. A 6 pack of 500 mg vicodin. Candy as far as I am concerned, Main thing is I am not badly injured just major muscle damage which pt will hopefully fix. I ws able to come home and sleep well on the dilaudid. I woke up because I was supppose to have a big promotional day at work and couldnt even walk. I amjsut now getting around and feel like I had a car accident. Which maybe what I did was worse. Moral of the story guys. On your foggy days watch out for the step. I can laugh now at how stupid it was but it was scarey at the time. Can't imagine what I looked like going down the stairs like that. Wish I would have had a camera. Oh and my hubby knows all the paramedics and emts that were here seeing me in that condition.


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