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November 27, 2007
> 3:17 PM
911 > my wife is broke Well, yesterday was a wild day. Liz, pioneer woman that she is, decided it was time to finish painting the foyer of our house, the top of which is some 17 feet from the ground. This is classic Liz, you have to understand. She finished the painting of our living room (same height) in the same way last year. Anyway, I didn't like the way she was situating the ladder. We were "joking" about how pissed I would be if she fell and killed herself or was hurt really badly. So, I'm working in the study and CRASH! Kids screaming - I run out to find her toppled over in the floor bleeding pretty good from her head!!! We got a rag quickly, folded it up and held it as a compress on her wound. Conor became the compress holder. McKenzie was crying but also helping out, getting this and that. I almost immediately called 911 and had an ambulance dispatched to the house. This was my first time to touch those three numbers in succession on the phone pad. Not fun, let me tell you. We really didn't know how badly she was hurt yet. I did my little triage questions: "Can you hear me?" "Do you know what day it is?" "Can you move your feet and toes?" All came back "yes" and that was good. "Are you dizzy at all?" "No" she said - good again. "Keep talking to me" I said, and she did. Then she said it was her arm that was really hurting worst, which I hadn't even noticed. Well, I noticed it then and eeek - crooked is a good description. Not good. Obviously broken - no protruding bone - better than it could've been. She was basically stable and we weren't moving her at all. The ambulance got here pretty quickly - about 12 minutes or so I guess. They were very calm guys, which was helpful. They asked her some of the same questions I had, of course, and did little tests about her neck and back - all fine. They got her up and she was able to walk to get on the stretcher. She never lost consciousness. So, I left the two kids at home (they were fine) and followed them to St. Joseph's East hospital ER. They assessed her - X-Ray, Cat Scan for her head, and all that. Head CT came back normal - very good. And of course she had a badly broken arm which was causing her a lot of pain by this time. They splinted that up and then the doctor began working on her forehead laceration. She took her time about sewing it up, which we appreciated. You could tell she was being very careful. She even said that she was doing this they way she would want it done for her if it was her wound. That's what you want to hear at a time like that. So, about 30 or 40 minutes and 20 stitches later, Liz has a lovely snowflake shaped 5 or six armed stitched up wound on her head about an inch and a quarter in diameter. Nice. Her arm - I believe it's the Radius bone in her forearm which is broken. It's a bad break - displaced and in a few pieces apparently. We were sent home last night with her arm splinted - a lot of pain most of the night. She had medication but it only helped some. She has seen an Orthopedic surgeon, this morning, and he said she needs surgery to fix the break. She will, by this time tomorrow, be a bionic woman. A plate and some screws - lovely. We go at 6:30am tomorrow to have the surgery. Then 6 weeks or so of healing I guess. Please pray that all goes as well as possible, no complications, full healing, all that. Liz, I'm sure, would appreciate that. She is fine and at home at the moment. She has some extra pain meds now that, when combined with the other, are helping out. We are very grateful that she wasn't hurt any worse than she was. She's pretty fortunate to have fallen approximately 15 feet onto a hard tile floor and not have any more damage. Angels are on duty even when you do goofy things with ladders I guess. OK, that's my story for today. I wish I had made all that up, but not so. It really happened. 0 Comments:| permalink | e-mail me | 
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