Excuses, Nothing But Excuses
12.27.08 (10:44 am) [edit]
I have a valid excuse for ditching this blog for the past 2 months.
No, really .
Sunday afternoon this past November 16th on the way to a lovely mother-daughter lunc h at Applebees we were tboned at an intersection right on the passengers side of the car ,were I was sitting.
Yes,you read correctly ,I was hit by a Chevy Silverado(2-3k lb pick up) at about my shoulder.
Thanks to my father's insistence on a safe car, German engineering (front & side airbags and a steel bar in the door), and an off duty nurse who arrived moments after the crash) I am alive.
My daughter is fine ( but shaken), the other driver walked away and his wife also had some rib issues.
However , I have three fractures in my pelvis , and cracked ribs.So I can only walk with a wheeled walker or use a wheelchair .
I can't lift my legs, and need a potty in the room and a hospital bed.Can't shower, can't get out of bed alone,leave the house (unless per stretcher )...well you are getting the picure by now, I presume.I am on narcotics for most of the day, but am lucid.
Also I have a pelvic fixator ( like a big bar )in my tummy that keeps my pelvis still as I heal.
That sucker is stuck in with exposed pins.
It always hurts me.It comes out over the next few weeks thank goodness.
I will not be totally
healed for another three months .
It's been a hard ,painful recovery so far.
My Eddie is taking care of me and he is a wonderful nurse.Steff steps in too and helps her Ma out .Also her new boyfriend Dave has been giving us a hand.
Childbirth is a paltry pain experience next to this ordeal.
