August 26, 2004
The Verdict
This is what it says on my discharge form: Impacted Radial Head Fracture with Navicular Tenderness.
Basically, I broke one of the two major bones in my right arm, at the elbow & my hand hurts near my wrist (I may have broken a small bone in between my thumb & wrist). Six hours, three waiting rooms, nine x-rays, two chapters of the Cider House Rules & one Lemon Bar. I left with a regulation sling (not as flashy as the red-orange one Mary MacGyver-ed for me), something cast-like called a Spica that keeps my thumb immobilized & directions to do exactly what I've been doing: ice & elevation. Some of my pill-familiar friends may frown on the fact that I may not fill the prescription for Percocet that the ER doctor wrote me for pain.
Posted by Rob at August 26, 2004 9:49 PM | TrackBack