Report from the front

I'm typing with 2 hands. Can't do it very long, though.

I was walking to work. I was 5 steps from the stairs. I felt my toe catch (the grating? the sidewalk? my other shoe?) and then I had that interminable time-slowing thing as I watched the sidewalk come toward me and calculated that I couldn't do anything to stop it. I felt my knee thwap into the sidewalk and I just lay there for a second flat on my face. You know how you fall and you kind of know the feeling, like "ow, I fell, fuck" but you know the difference when it hurts way more.

This hurt way more.

I thought it was my knee. I cried. 2 old ladies picked me up. I knew I couldn't just get on the train like this so I tried to figure out what to do. I'd been thinking about MKAEP (trying to work out my daddy issues and she's my partner on that) so I called her. Figured she'd talk me off the ledge and I'd just go to work late. I knew I needed to look at my knee before I went to work and I was too scared.

We talked. I cried. I finally looked at my knee and it didn't look the right shape.

Off the phone with MKAEP, on the phone with Pony Express because who else do you call when you need a considered opinion on which ER to go to? Called Audio Girl to tell her I wasn't going to work. Hobbled across the street. Hailed a cab. Spent cab ride realizing that the arm was as least as bad as the knee. Went to the ER.

Spent the next 3 hours at the ER. Much content to be found there but I can't type that much.

After many X-rays it seems that the knee is fine, the wrist is fine. The elbow has an eensy fracture. I forgot to ask exactly where in the elbow. So I'm supposed to keep the elbow immobilized for 2-3 days and then I'm supposed to move it. Also supposed to see an ortho. Have an appointment on the 23rd.

I took a shower today. That's interesting with one arm. Takes a while. As does everything.

I feel much better today. Knee feels a LOT better. The arm is very swollen. The elbow won't straighten completely, which concerns me, but I'm going to chalk that up to the swelling until the ortho tells me differently or I will freak the fuck out. And no one wants that. I'm going back to work tomorrow for a partial day.

Also, no, I didn't get any good drugs, they wouldn't even give me any motrin. Fuckers.

So, this hurts now and I'm going to stop but I'll leave you with this piece of advice: always bring someone with you to the ER, it's the only way you're going to get that damn gown tied.