I can't think of a better place to put this, but I wanted to share that I am home again.
The ride home was torture and I am in an exceptional amount of pain. Ow!
Fortunately, I have an RN on duty and I have liquid dilaudid for breakthrough pain. Unfortunately, I get to pick my dosage (to some extent) and I opted for a minimal dose. It is a long story but let's just say that addiction is a major concern and I keep my dosing to a very minimal amount. (0.5 mg dilaudid by IV.)
Those are permanent and the metal goes down further than is indicated in the x-ray. There are a couple more screws that aren't in the image.
Ol' Buddha got himself some new hardware!
Mine was done in a horrific car accident (I was not the driver) that started off at very significant speeds. We left a trail of debris that reminded me of the pictures of plane crashes. We went though a telephone pole and two trees that I know of. By the time we were done, there was pretty much nothing left except the passenger compartment. There was no nose, trunk, undercarriage, etc... Just the passenger compartment and even that was twisted up pretty bad.
It is in impound (the driver was shitfaced) but I am hoping to get pictures. We shall see...
How'd you break your femur?
The tale of how I managed to break my femur is not as exciting or glamorous as yours. At the ripe old age of 13, some friends and I gathered at our richest friends house to play laser tag and consume copious amounts of soda. During a heated battle, I slipped on some wet grass and fell down a hill. It wasn't even a steep hill, I suspect it could be classified as a large mound. That's literally it. I was running down a small hill, slipped, and broke my femur.
That seems like an exceptionally rare event, if we factor in youth and severity of the impact.
So, there's that!
We aren't even sure where, in all the accident, I broke mine. It is my left femur and I was a passenger.
I ain't scared of a few xrays. I kept all the xrays and the screws from my experience with breaking my femur and I used them for a presentation in school. Lol