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It's been almost a week since the accident - so how am I?
Honestly, better than I hoped I could be. The biggest worries were that I may have fractured my wrist and herniated another disc in my neck; the doctors' suggestions were that if I didn't start to improve within 5-6 days I'd need further workup. Thankfully, I'm starting to improve.
I spent most of the past week in a drug-induced haze; at my doctors' recommendations I was pretty aggressive with the meds in the hopes of nipping any muscle spasms in the bud before they turned into chronic tension and pain. And the end result is that, while I lost several days to a blend of napping and daytime tv, at this point I've gone from 'constant pain and unable to find any position that isn't causing discomfort enough to make me cry' to 'generally achy but tolerable.'
It's a nuisance, mostly because otherwise I had been doing so well in my recovery. Most of my pain was gone - I was down to one chronic knot in my right shoulder, but other than that I felt better than I had in over a year. I had started running again. I was dancing while we were on vacation. And it's frustrating as heck to go back to 'often needs help lifting a coffee mug or climbing stairs; needs a nap after being out of the house for four hours.' But at least it's reassuring to know that, if I got better once I can get better again. Eventually. Agonizingly slowly. Someday.
Other than that... it's likely that my car will be totalled. Even if the body damage wasn't too severe, the cost of replacing the air bags in a 12-year-old car is pretty close to the value of the entire car itself. Which means I need to start thinking about a replacement. Which, truth be told, is an expense I don't need when I've been out of work for 4-5 months - even if they reimburse me the full value of my car, that's not bloody much. And I'm sad that, no matter what, I can't get another Saturn. But such is life, and I knew I'd need to replace her eventually.
So. Unwelcome expenses, frustrating pain, heartening recovery, overall could be worse. That's about the size of it....
Honestly, better than I hoped I could be. The biggest worries were that I may have fractured my wrist and herniated another disc in my neck; the doctors' suggestions were that if I didn't start to improve within 5-6 days I'd need further workup. Thankfully, I'm starting to improve.
I spent most of the past week in a drug-induced haze; at my doctors' recommendations I was pretty aggressive with the meds in the hopes of nipping any muscle spasms in the bud before they turned into chronic tension and pain. And the end result is that, while I lost several days to a blend of napping and daytime tv, at this point I've gone from 'constant pain and unable to find any position that isn't causing discomfort enough to make me cry' to 'generally achy but tolerable.'
It's a nuisance, mostly because otherwise I had been doing so well in my recovery. Most of my pain was gone - I was down to one chronic knot in my right shoulder, but other than that I felt better than I had in over a year. I had started running again. I was dancing while we were on vacation. And it's frustrating as heck to go back to 'often needs help lifting a coffee mug or climbing stairs; needs a nap after being out of the house for four hours.' But at least it's reassuring to know that, if I got better once I can get better again. Eventually. Agonizingly slowly. Someday.
Other than that... it's likely that my car will be totalled. Even if the body damage wasn't too severe, the cost of replacing the air bags in a 12-year-old car is pretty close to the value of the entire car itself. Which means I need to start thinking about a replacement. Which, truth be told, is an expense I don't need when I've been out of work for 4-5 months - even if they reimburse me the full value of my car, that's not bloody much. And I'm sad that, no matter what, I can't get another Saturn. But such is life, and I knew I'd need to replace her eventually.
So. Unwelcome expenses, frustrating pain, heartening recovery, overall could be worse. That's about the size of it....
