Oh, Good Grief....

[ladysprite]

I am running out of body parts to hurt. Also, of all the ways to get injured at a veterinary hospital, this has to be the most ignominious.

So yesterday I'm at work, in a heavy rainstorm. And it's the end of my lunch break, and I'm going from the lunch room (which, at this clinic, is in a little separate building next door) back to the hospital itself. Which involves going outside, and down a flight of wooden stairs. Nice, shiny, painted, soaking-wet wooden stairs.

In this particular instance, it involved going down those stairs on my right hip, at a rather accelerated rate.

I did my best to tough it through afternoon appointments, but after an hour or so, when my boss noted that i had gone from 'limping' to 'navigating my way around the hospital by advanced brachiation' he rather insisted that I leave for the day. I spent the rest of the afternoon and night trying to find a comfortable way to rest that didn't involve straining my hip, shoulder, neck, or state of mind.

(Best guess is a bone bruise - there's nothing visible on the skin, but my whole right hip and backside are swollen, painful when I touch them, and sitting or stepping upwards hurts like anything. On the other hand, at least this morning I can walk without too much pain - which makes today's work shift a lot more survivable.)

I am lucky. I am damned lucky; I know way too many people who have broken bones sliding down stairs like that. And I have found that, as suggested (and thank you!), tylenol on top of ibuprofen actually helps like nothing else I've found; the pain in my shoulder is better now than it's been in weeks as long as I keep that up.

But still... this is getting a bit ridiculous.

Comments

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my PCP is pretty insistent about trying to boost pain meds with tylenol before trying someone else. I'm glad it's helping.

What happened totally sucks, I'm sorry you have to bear this on top of everything else. I hope you heal quickly.