Kristi
I Rue Everything
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Four years ago I broke my lower right femur a month before I was supposed to head to my first game at Texas Stadium. I wish I had some incentive like that to heal for this break, but this one is going to take a lot longer and be a lot more painful and doc told dad after surgery don't expect to do much with my leg for at least 12 weeks.
I broke it in a fall with dad out of my truck since the cable broke on my truck lift on the way to Deadwood, SD for a ski week of fun at Ski For Light. The accessible parking was poor, on a hill, and icy at our hotel. It wasn't a hard fall, but enough to due this damage and require surgery. I was more worried about a blot clot then anything and am grateful it wasn't that. Still sucks and the pain is horrible. Pain management was awful my first couple of days where the nurse denied and made me wait hours for pain medication. It was miserable and I reported him.
I'll have a lot of computer time as my leg is so swollen from bleeding into the leg for four days and the surgery that I don't fit into my wheelchair anymore so I'm stuck in a rent-a-crap hospital chair and relying on others to help me in and out of it. I use my broken leg as my primary leg to grab and transfer so it's driving me bonkers waiting for it to heal and I have only been out of the hospital a couple of days.
Any fun, free computer games or suggestions of things I can do to pass the time?
I wanted a photo of the post-surgery x-ray as I'm not sure if I have a rod or hip hardware and the nurse said it would be easier to get it off a free CD from the hospital then pull it up on the computer in my hospital room and take a photo with my phone. However, I have tried this stupid CD in three different computers and it's a no go. It's says I need IE 5 or better which I have. I'll have to wait for my checkup to get a post-surgery photo.
The bones should be lined up.
http://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/upper_femur.jpghttp://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/upper_femur.jpg
This is what it is supposed to look like.
http://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/normal_femur.jpghttp://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/normal_femur.jpg
I broke it in a fall with dad out of my truck since the cable broke on my truck lift on the way to Deadwood, SD for a ski week of fun at Ski For Light. The accessible parking was poor, on a hill, and icy at our hotel. It wasn't a hard fall, but enough to due this damage and require surgery. I was more worried about a blot clot then anything and am grateful it wasn't that. Still sucks and the pain is horrible. Pain management was awful my first couple of days where the nurse denied and made me wait hours for pain medication. It was miserable and I reported him.
I'll have a lot of computer time as my leg is so swollen from bleeding into the leg for four days and the surgery that I don't fit into my wheelchair anymore so I'm stuck in a rent-a-crap hospital chair and relying on others to help me in and out of it. I use my broken leg as my primary leg to grab and transfer so it's driving me bonkers waiting for it to heal and I have only been out of the hospital a couple of days.
Any fun, free computer games or suggestions of things I can do to pass the time?
I wanted a photo of the post-surgery x-ray as I'm not sure if I have a rod or hip hardware and the nurse said it would be easier to get it off a free CD from the hospital then pull it up on the computer in my hospital room and take a photo with my phone. However, I have tried this stupid CD in three different computers and it's a no go. It's says I need IE 5 or better which I have. I'll have to wait for my checkup to get a post-surgery photo.
The bones should be lined up.
http://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/upper_femur.jpghttp://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/upper_femur.jpg
This is what it is supposed to look like.
http://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/normal_femur.jpghttp://i849.***BLOCKED***/albums/ab55/kristina_allen/normal_femur.jpg