Monday, April 6, 2009

Smiling Gamely

This is for you Dad. I thought you might relate.
"The child who ran to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collar-bone and incredible contusions-'it wasn't Jezebel's fault, Dad.'"-Pam Brown 1928 I feel so silly! This whole time I've been looking at the wrong part of my x-ray! If you look at the picture you will see the circle with the x is where I thought the break was and the normal circle is where it actually is. You can see where the bone over laps. The x-ray they took today didn't look much better. In fact I think it looks worse. The bones are sticking up more now then they were before, probably because I tripped and fell in the garage when Josh was at work and landed on my right shoulder.
It has been 5 weeks since my crash and so I went to see a specialist today to get checked out. He said he thinks my clavicle will take 4 months to heal. I may be being a little dramatic but I think I'll be dead by then. This is awful. The only good news is I can start moving my shoulder a little bit and getting back some of my muscle and rotation. I will keep you updated.

1 comment:

Kylee said...

Hey Ry,
Bummer news! I'll do what I can to keep you alive for the next four months. Summer is just around the corner, so you can really rest up then! Hopefully your bones get their act together and heal quick.
Love ya!