Injured Knees
Original Story Posted on: June 6, 2008
What is it about getting older that makes us so dang clumsy? For an
entire week I have been walking (or I should say scooting) around my
home with 2 injured knees, and one so injured as to require 5
stitches. At least I am walking, although barely.
Last week, while leaving my son's piano lesson, I lost my balance on a stepping stone going across the yard and went down in a fraction of a second. It happened so fast that I didn't even have time to process a thought such as %$#@!!!! That word came out of my mouth after I looked at my right knee and realized that I had an open wound all the way down to the knee cap. I began to cry and asked my precious and very frightened son to run in and tell his teacher to call 911 - "NOW!" I felt myself slipping away as this overwhelming heat began to rush to my head and a feeling like I was about to pass out. I just kept screaming to the piercing pain instead and covered my knee with my hand so that I couldn't look at it - trying to distract myself from the passing out that was inevitable if I relaxed even a little bit or saw any more of the wound on my knee.
My son's teacher called 911, and then my husband. 9 minutes later my hubby arrived - before the EMS. They didn't arrive for another 4 minutes. "What if I was having a heart attack guys?!!!" I swear someone needs to improve the emergency medical response time by improving the emergency medical personnel that are available in this God foresaken North Carolina. I took the ambulance - Darn it needs some serious shocks. "Why don't these transports have shocks?!!!!"
Thinking that I wouldn't have to wait around and get in to see a doctor faster, I tolerated the shocks. I was wrong. I arrived at 7:30pm, and didn't get into the ER until midnight. An IV, some Morphine, and a couple of percocet later I was ready for the doctor to stitch me up. I got home at almost 3am.
So here I sit a week later and I still can't bend my right knee.
Great for blogging. Bad for everything else in life - like using the
bathroom. Have you ever tried to use the bathroom with your right leg
extended straight out? I didn't think so. Try it sometime, it isn't
easy.
Great for nappin' though.