WHAT HAVE WE DONE???.
So here we are back blogging again after a very long lay off. I thought i had better share our latest family mishap with you my friends and readers.
Last Friday Sue and I went out on our Motorcycles for a great ride, going to Lynmouth for a cuppa then on across Exmoor toward Minehead, then Dulverton and back to the van around 65-70 miles. When we got back to the Caravan I rode my bike around to the back of the caravan (where we keep them) as usual, i arrived and was just putting my bike on the stand when i heard this real commotion and screaming behind me. I looked round to see Sue lying on the ground with her bike on top of her. I rushed accross to get the bike off her, by then our caravan neighbor had come around too, between us we pulled out Sue's trapped leg, while doing this i noticed Sue's Arm was sticking up at a very strange angle.I immediately got her into the car and rushed off to Barnstaple A & E dept, where 7 hours later she was admitted overnight with a very bad Spiral Fracture of the Arm between Elbow and Shoulder.They put on a partial plaster with a very heavy bottom to try to pull down the bone where it was overlapping the other. After a night in absolute agony and loads of Ora morph + no sleep at 3 pm they discharged (she insisted) her to go back Monday afternoon for either a full cast (if the heavy plaster had worked) or to be admitted to Hospital for an operation to wire or pin her arm.
So yesterday we went back to the Hospital fearing the worst as the pain had kept her awake all of both nights. When we arrived at the Fracture clinic the main man (Consultant specialist) was there. After a thorough and painful examination and several X Rays he gave Sue a choice, did she want them to try to manually pull the bones apart and push them back in place and hope they stayed while they plastered it (which he said was going to be very very painful so she needed more Ora Morph), or she could be admitted for the Operation which he said carried a fair risk of Nerve damage because of the position of the Fracture. So Sue decided for the painful but less risky option. I think she now wishes perhaps that she hadn't. The procedure was that a Male nurse held her Arm in place while this Consultant pulled down and manipulated the bone back to somewhere near where it should be, I could hear Sue's pain from the waiting room but eventually she came (in full plaster) very unsteadily and very white, in a wheelchair to be taken for another X Ray to see how it was. After this the Consultant showed us the before and after pictures and he was fairly pleased with them. We could clearly see the break about 4.5 inches long and vertical (before) with one bone overlapping the other, after there was a distinctly smaller gap between. So now we have to wait 10 days then back for more X Rays to check its still in place, if not then its the dreaded Operation I'm afraid.
Sue is still in a lot of pain and the Arm is getting Blacker and more Swollen daily,we were warned it probably would be.
So Fingers crossed everybody. Don't know what other shit can get thrown at us though!!!!!.
Sue pictured by a motorbike just to show she didnt blame the bike, she just put her foot out while rounding the Caravan (2 MPH) her foot slipped over she went, the full weight of her and the bike hit the corner of the van on her arm, the rest as they say is history.
You can see by this picture how drawn with lack of sleep she looks.
These next pictures show how Black and Swollen the arm is, it also shows the Cast and how its taped to her Chest to prevent movement.
Last Friday Sue and I went out on our Motorcycles for a great ride, going to Lynmouth for a cuppa then on across Exmoor toward Minehead, then Dulverton and back to the van around 65-70 miles. When we got back to the Caravan I rode my bike around to the back of the caravan (where we keep them) as usual, i arrived and was just putting my bike on the stand when i heard this real commotion and screaming behind me. I looked round to see Sue lying on the ground with her bike on top of her. I rushed accross to get the bike off her, by then our caravan neighbor had come around too, between us we pulled out Sue's trapped leg, while doing this i noticed Sue's Arm was sticking up at a very strange angle.I immediately got her into the car and rushed off to Barnstaple A & E dept, where 7 hours later she was admitted overnight with a very bad Spiral Fracture of the Arm between Elbow and Shoulder.They put on a partial plaster with a very heavy bottom to try to pull down the bone where it was overlapping the other. After a night in absolute agony and loads of Ora morph + no sleep at 3 pm they discharged (she insisted) her to go back Monday afternoon for either a full cast (if the heavy plaster had worked) or to be admitted to Hospital for an operation to wire or pin her arm.
So yesterday we went back to the Hospital fearing the worst as the pain had kept her awake all of both nights. When we arrived at the Fracture clinic the main man (Consultant specialist) was there. After a thorough and painful examination and several X Rays he gave Sue a choice, did she want them to try to manually pull the bones apart and push them back in place and hope they stayed while they plastered it (which he said was going to be very very painful so she needed more Ora Morph), or she could be admitted for the Operation which he said carried a fair risk of Nerve damage because of the position of the Fracture. So Sue decided for the painful but less risky option. I think she now wishes perhaps that she hadn't. The procedure was that a Male nurse held her Arm in place while this Consultant pulled down and manipulated the bone back to somewhere near where it should be, I could hear Sue's pain from the waiting room but eventually she came (in full plaster) very unsteadily and very white, in a wheelchair to be taken for another X Ray to see how it was. After this the Consultant showed us the before and after pictures and he was fairly pleased with them. We could clearly see the break about 4.5 inches long and vertical (before) with one bone overlapping the other, after there was a distinctly smaller gap between. So now we have to wait 10 days then back for more X Rays to check its still in place, if not then its the dreaded Operation I'm afraid.
Sue is still in a lot of pain and the Arm is getting Blacker and more Swollen daily,we were warned it probably would be.
So Fingers crossed everybody. Don't know what other shit can get thrown at us though!!!!!.
Sue pictured by a motorbike just to show she didnt blame the bike, she just put her foot out while rounding the Caravan (2 MPH) her foot slipped over she went, the full weight of her and the bike hit the corner of the van on her arm, the rest as they say is history.
You can see by this picture how drawn with lack of sleep she looks.
These next pictures show how Black and Swollen the arm is, it also shows the Cast and how its taped to her Chest to prevent movement.
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