The Black Swan: April 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Life Experience!!

Well I had a life experience that I've never had before and I hope to never have again...I broke my first bone or bones in this case. I was riding a very fun quad at a friends house and I had the shifting down pat! I had been circling the house for awhile and thought it best that I practice circling the other way, since you can't circle one way in the desert the whole time...so I proceeded to circle the other way. I have found that if you ask it nicely, a tree will move for you but apparently either I didn't ask or I didn't ask nicely enough but I rode straight into one without any warning and with it not having the courtesy to step out of the way...so needless to say I broke both bones in my left arm. Went to the ER right after that with my arm looking like a Charger lightning bolt and after a few X-rays the doctor proclaimed it was broken and the bones were off by 9mm...that's a lot. So the next day, which was Wednesday, Mommi and I went to Poway to see a Orthopedist to see about getting my arm set. The first words out of his mouth, besides hello, was you need surgery. Or he could try and manipulate it back in place, which had a 60-70% chance of lining it up enough that I wouldn't need surgery. Might as well try it! So the doctor gave me a rather large shot of Novocain right in the break and then the nurse hung my arm by my fingers and put a 12lb weight on my bicep to get gravity to straighten it out as much as it could. Then the doc came back in after 12-15 minutes of hanging and started what felt like yanking on my arm. I didn't watch what he did but it felt like he was trying to re-break my arm. Anyone who says you cant feel your bones or your bones have no feeling...they're lying!!! The Novocain helped but I could still feel my bones moving around in there and it hurt like heck!! Both the doctor and the 2 nurses were very surprised that I didn't scream, cry, shout or moan through the whole yanking process. I took more X-rays after that and got a cast. The doctor brought the X-rays back in and said my bones aligned perfectly!! Thank you Lord I don't need surgery!! Here are some pictures of my experience ;)