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05 June 2009

Guess who the new guy with the broken foot and pain meds: ME! Very long angsty relationship-filter-sucks-to-be-me-but-what-do-I-do-now?-omg-personal! ahead

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Okay so the BF and I had a *little* too much to drink at our local bar last night. I was trying to kill the pain of my recent dental adventure with high-proof whiskey (I was spitting it out, and I wasn't on the pain pills then, I was saving them for the night). The BF however, had not had a lunch. Or dinner. So the drinks hit him like a load of bricks. We go home and he promptly goes to bed (Or rather, I put him to bed) and then I decide I want a pizza so I go out and get some. Come back, place the pizza down, trip over the vaccum cleaner hose and land face down on the floor-bonk-out of it. At some point the BF must have awoken up and noticed me passed out and this is bad cause just a week before I freaked him out something scary by falling asleep on the bathroom tile (I had 1950s-era tile marks all down my side, we where just laughing about it at the bar, actually) and being in such a deep sleep I wouldn't wake up. ANYWAY, I get up off the ground and notice a pain in my foot. Not too bad, but a pain. I get into bed and he's pissed and the NO TOUCHING ME! I'M MAD! NYAH! rule is in effect. Fine. Whatever. It's just I can't sleep. The ankle pain gets worse and worse. It's becoming obvious I sprained it something fierce cause I can barely put any weight on it at all. So I spend the rest of the night in a tub of very hot water cause my pain meds are on the other side of the bedroom and I don't think I can get there without taking half house down with me.

So now I'm here, waiting for a decent hour to come. I'm planning on making Makeup Yorkshire puddings (not as self-sacrificing as it sounds, the kitchen is tiny and all I have to do is stand in one place) for when he wakes up to anticipate the "You where passed on the floor!/OMG what did you do to your leg!" split reaction I'm gonna get.

Sooo. There.
Ow. (T_T)
posted by gomichild 05 June | 06:13
Yeah, I'll find out the whole story when he wakes up. Siiiigh, I need a cane.
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 06:46
Ooh, I feel your pain. I have broken my right ankle 3 times and have sprained it numerous times.

Next time ice it down instead of using hot water. The hot water just blows it up and makes the pain of inflammation worse. Those pain pills will come in handy. Good luck.
posted by LoriFLA 05 June | 07:38
Also you a cane might really work for you image wise. Don't diss it too early.
posted by gomichild 05 June | 07:40
Ouch!! Sorry to hear that, dude. What a tale, though!
posted by BoringPostcards 05 June | 08:02
Ouchie! Did you actually pass out after you tripped over the hose, or did you hit your head on the floor and get knocked out? Get the doc to check your head as well as your ankle.
posted by JanetLand 05 June | 08:41
I have taken a couple hard falls in my life. No fun. So, how was the pizza?
posted by Ardiril 05 June | 08:43
seconding the head doctor, The Broken Foot Whelk. Who knows what he might find up in that attic....
posted by Lipstick Thespian 05 June | 08:57
Ouchie! A sprained ankle is no fun, and passing out from a fall is Bad Business! Thirding the head doctor...
posted by muddgirl 05 June | 09:01
But how does one afford said doctor on no insurance, he asks. I'm not sure if I passed out after I tripped over the hose or If I hit my head. No bump. But who can say,

Never got to fucking eat the pizza.


On the other hand, how can you tell a sprained ankle from a broken one?
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 09:08
Dear God. Yes, doctor please, if you haven't already. And when you're well enough, I want to hear more about 1950s-era tile mark prints. I'm picturing a vintage ad in LIFE Magazine with a cheerful housewife with very elegant fleurs-de-lis all over one smiling imprinted cheek. They could've marketed that...

P.S. I hate "No touching, I'm mad" rules. We sure can be stubborn, improperly-expressive bastards when we're hurting.
posted by mykescipark 05 June | 09:10
Also I got a lecture on letting my insurance slip and the flat monotone of "Well, you have to go the doctor" with the faint whiff of "Well this ruined today" and "what where you doing up making breakfast, making your foot worse?!" Sigh. He's calling doctor friends and trying to find a walk-in clinic and I'm hoping it's just sprained (with a secret suspicion they'll just SAY it's broken, doctors ARE scary Booegypeople!) so I can sit in my comfy chair and pop pills all day.

You know, like usual.
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 09:14
Definately get the ankle x-rayed. You don't want it to heal wrong and hobble you for life. It probably is just sprained but you want to be sure.
posted by octothorpe 05 June | 09:29
The last time I passed out (the one that got the defibrillator stuck in me), I came to just before I ate the carpet. I had just enough time to think, "Hey, is that the fl..." That was the incident that pretty much guaranteed I would never gain custody of my son due to medical reasons.

Anyway, don't let this ruin your taste for pizza. Jump back in the saddle and order delivery.
posted by Ardiril 05 June | 09:38
SO 400 bucks and 4 hours later I know what I could have could have told you then. It's a sprain. The end. Thanks a fuckton medicine.


Oh! and about the tile pattern. I feel asleep in mid wee and slammed dead asleep onto the bathroom title, leaving little interlocking red rectangles up and down my side.
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 13:46
Also the crutches they gave me were crap in the slipper rainy streets and I was doing fine with my umbrella-cane, thank you never much.


I only want a cane if it can also be a sword. or a gun. Or a gun that shoots swords!
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 13:56
Yeah, I hate crutches and refuse to use 'em especially with a sprained ankle.

I've heard that sprained ankles become increasingly more likely each time you get one. Let it heal fully before you try to do things like play soccer or go bowling! Make sure to do ankle exercises! (I like to do "the Alphabet", which is simply writing the whole alphabet with my toe pointed in the air)
posted by muddgirl 05 June | 14:00
400 bucks? How much would the insurance premiums have cost?

Crutches suck, and when I broke a foot bone, I swear the crutches only made things worse.
posted by Ardiril 05 June | 14:12
Yet another reason to never go bowling or play soccer!
posted by The Whelk 05 June | 14:16
Make sure to do ankle exercises! (I like to do "the Alphabet", which is simply writing the whole alphabet with my toe pointed in the air)

Muddgirl, my weak ankles and I are in love with you.

The Whelk --- Ouchie! I too prefer the sartorial economy of an umbrella cane over crutches. My partner threw out my grandfather's cane-handled oilcloth umbrella, much to my dismay. "But it was broken, honey."

[sullenly] Yeah, well, it didn't work as an umbrella. As a cane, it was ideal. (And I could pretend in my secret heart that it had a hidden rapier handle. Hey, maybe I'll buy myself a rapier-handle umbrella as a replacement. Awesome.)
posted by Elsa 05 June | 14:31
Sprained ankles suck. I sprained mine most recently playing Ultimate (the last time I played) and ended up hobbling around for a least a month.
posted by octothorpe 05 June | 15:06
When I broke my ankle, I used a walker. Made me feel 90 years old but it was much better than crutches.
posted by JanetLand 05 June | 16:43
I sprained my ankles several times in my teen years. I'm actually less likely to sprain them now because my body has developed a really fat OH-MY-GOD-YOU'RE-ABOUT-TO-SPRAIN-YOUR-ANKLE-TAKE-ALL-WEIGHT-OFF-IT-NOW reaction.
posted by plinth 05 June | 20:08
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