And by "Go home, it's a sprain", and a follow up call "Oops, I meant to call someone else", you meant "Please come back, we think you broke your wrist"?
But what you say is true... I'm more annoyed that at the time they didn't really do the "Well, I can't tell, let's splint it and see you in a week" rather than the "Nothing wrong, ice it and compress it"
I took the initiative to buy a wrist brace, which they will certainly be prescribing on this visit.
I tore ligaments as high up as the back of my knee through the calf and all around my ankle - the week before Nutopia '05 infact...Was bad enough that I couldn't even hop to the fridge to get more ice, and crawling wasn't an option...passing out from the pain seemed to work pretty well. The blood pooling behind your knee is just plain icky to see!
As soon as I was able, I went to the hospital to get some happy pills and have them look at it. Before I could even pull a "give it to me strait doc, am I going to live?" the technician asked me 'had I broken my ankle before?" to which I responded, "No, why?". The tech indicated that although they aren't allowed to interpret the results, that she could see several hairline fractures that had healed up but left that calcification.
Turns out several severally torn ligaments, hence hearing the magic 'pop', but no actual breakages. Took the crutches - worst waste of money ever - and their drugs (goooodness!) and went to Nutopia and stayed highly inebriated all weekend in order to overcome the pain of walking on it. I wasn't even fit enough to take down my own dome.
Must have been cosmic revenge for me pulling an April Fool's Day joke a few years back of setting my ankle in a cast and saying I broke it and tore my ACL playing sports. *sigh* Cosmic Retribution :/
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BTW - Can you give me a shout at home this evening or tomorrow? I would like to run something by you for your input.
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Often, they can't tell if a wrist bone is broken without waiting a week for some calcification around the break, even on a good x-ray.
So they probably had trouble reading it, AND called the wrong person, since they had a pile of wrist x-rays giong to the expert?
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But what you say is true... I'm more annoyed that at the time they didn't really do the "Well, I can't tell, let's splint it and see you in a week" rather than the "Nothing wrong, ice it and compress it"
I took the initiative to buy a wrist brace, which they will certainly be prescribing on this visit.
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It's off to emergency for me!
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As soon as I was able, I went to the hospital to get some happy pills and have them look at it. Before I could even pull a "give it to me strait doc, am I going to live?" the technician asked me 'had I broken my ankle before?" to which I responded, "No, why?". The tech indicated that although they aren't allowed to interpret the results, that she could see several hairline fractures that had healed up but left that calcification.
Turns out several severally torn ligaments, hence hearing the magic 'pop', but no actual breakages. Took the crutches - worst waste of money ever - and their drugs (goooodness!) and went to Nutopia and stayed highly inebriated all weekend in order to overcome the pain of walking on it. I wasn't even fit enough to take down my own dome.
Must have been cosmic revenge for me pulling an April Fool's Day joke a few years back of setting my ankle in a cast and saying I broke it and tore my ACL playing sports. *sigh* Cosmic Retribution :/