Wrench in the works

[bill_schubert]

The direction of my day today changed yesterday morning but it too a while to develop. While getting on the bed she stepped weirdly on the step to get up and kind of twisted while her good leg collapsed under her. I was there but only saw the aftermath. She was in a lot of pain that only got worse during the day until she could not even walk at all but had to kind of drag her right leg while walking.

We called the on call nurse who called the on call doctor who sent us to the hospital. We went back to where she had the surgery and went in through a fortunately fairly quiet emergency room. Leaving the house took nearly an hour mostly watching Dana struggle to walk across the house to the car. We don't have a wheelchair and I'm now considering the utility in having one. They don't cost too much. Storage is an issue but we'll deal with it. Sure would have been good to have it last night.

The short version is she got a room and a radiologist took a picture and the on call orthopedist said it looked like she had a minor fracture. We were kind of hoping her hip joint was just unseated and needed to be put back. Bad as that sounds it is a quick process. It looks like her osteoporosis is catching up with her and has either cracked or chipped bone around her hip.

I had already cancelled everything for today and cancelled the chick pick up for tomorrow. We got her on the good pain meds and I finally left around 2:30 getting back here and finally in bed about 4AM.

Not sure what I am doing but I'll likely head over to the hospital after taking the dogs on a walk. Poor Toby doesn't know what is happening, only that his mom isn't here.

Dana did say they took a CT today already so I'm sure the docs are trying to figure out if they can avoid repeat surgery. Fingers crossed. No idea when she's going to come back. I would think tomorrow at the earliest.

Comments

[susandennis]

well, crapeola. so sorry.

[maisydaisy]

Oh no ! So sorry to hear this.
Sending healing thoughts.

[bill_schubert]

Thanks. Thank heavens (actually, thank the military) for our insurance. I can't imagine the grind of having to calculate what this would cost.

[msconduct]

Ouch! How awful, poor Dana. The last thing you need after surgery while at the same time being more likely then as you struggle with mobility (I know someone who fell down the stairs the week after his knee replacement). Fingers crossed for her.

[bill_schubert]

I cannot imagine even being in the same room with a flight of stairs after knee surgery much less falling down one. That's just incredibly painful. Like passing out pain.
Fortunately, Dana was not quite that bad, although certainly close. She's doing a lot better today and I'm trying to get information from the docs so we shall see.

[mallorys_camera]

Awww. Very sorry to hear this. Sending good thoughts to you & Dana.

[zoefruitcake]

Being behind on reading it took me quite a few posts to get to what happened. Poor Dana

[bill_schubert]

Well, she's doing much better. I'm headed up there to see her right now. She's very motivated to get home.