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osarabaMy mom tripped over an uneven grate about half a block away from work this morning. She fell onto her shoulder and, after an excrutiatingly painful ride to the hosptial in an ambulance, and several hours later, we were informed that she had dislocated her shoulder, fractured the ball of her shoulder, and broken the upper arm (humerus) bone -- all the way through. They tried to manually push the bone back into the correct spot, but it didn't work.
She was in horrible pain all day long as she can barely move without jarring her shoulder -- got 4 doses of morphine over an 8 hour period...
She's in the hospital tonight and scheduled for surgery in the morning to have pins and plates put in to put the bones back into their correct spots, and to hold them together.
...and did I forget to mention that while we were in the ambulance we were cut off so the driver had to slam on the brakes, throwing us all forward? Which caused her to scream in agony as the EMTs aren't allowed to give painkillers in the field? I was seatbelted in, so I was fine. But the other EMT who was sitting next to me, writing up his report actually got thrown off the bench into the cabinet?
I feel soooo bad -- this is one of those things that you just can't predict will happen, which causes you to go into those "if ONLY I'd gone to work earlier", "if only I'd gone down the other block" sort of spirals.
And I'm just relieved that she's feeling a bit better (some of the pressure is off her arm since they splinted it, I believe). I hope after-surgery and the next couple weeks are not going to be too painful for her -- I know we're all going to be stressed and stretched to our limits here at home.
She was in horrible pain all day long as she can barely move without jarring her shoulder -- got 4 doses of morphine over an 8 hour period...
She's in the hospital tonight and scheduled for surgery in the morning to have pins and plates put in to put the bones back into their correct spots, and to hold them together.
...and did I forget to mention that while we were in the ambulance we were cut off so the driver had to slam on the brakes, throwing us all forward? Which caused her to scream in agony as the EMTs aren't allowed to give painkillers in the field? I was seatbelted in, so I was fine. But the other EMT who was sitting next to me, writing up his report actually got thrown off the bench into the cabinet?
I feel soooo bad -- this is one of those things that you just can't predict will happen, which causes you to go into those "if ONLY I'd gone to work earlier", "if only I'd gone down the other block" sort of spirals.
And I'm just relieved that she's feeling a bit better (some of the pressure is off her arm since they splinted it, I believe). I hope after-surgery and the next couple weeks are not going to be too painful for her -- I know we're all going to be stressed and stretched to our limits here at home.
