An ordeal I wouldn't wish upon Sheila Jackson Lee:
Getting three big assed carriage bolts (with galvanized washers) removed from your tibia. The doctors all say "It's no big deal!" "You'll be walking the next day!"
You don't realize that they're talking about no big deal in the context of the big deal it was when you got the Frankenstein bolts put IN your leg, not no big deal as in the great scheme of pain in general.
And when they say you'll be walking the next day they mean in the context of having spent three months in a wheel chair, not in the great scheme of hobbling and wincing and using a walker to go pee like an 80 year old hunchbacked snaggle toothed bag lady who happens to have wall to wall carpet and central air conditioning.
And when they say "I'll go in through the same cuts they made last time" they don't tell you how incredibly gnarly it's all going to look.
Thanks for the vote on confidence, CAD - and good luck with yours.Labels: accident, medicine |
Sheesh.
The sadistic part of me thinks that all doctors should have to go through some procedure like this; just so they'll understand what you're actually saying when you say the pain is an "8" on that stupid 1-to-10 scale!
At least you finally got it over with. Heal fast!