Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 8:12 pm on Thursday, June 14, 2007
So its been about a 1 year (and a month) since I completely broke my ankle (broke every bone and dislocated it) and I’m proud to say my ankle is basically healed. I have scars on both sides of my ankle and it still swells bigger than my non-broken ankle but overall I can do everything again that I could do before I broke it. In fact I have started running at the Gym and it holds up well. Every so often my ankle will tell me if I’ve done too much by causing some pain or if the weather is changing. I still have all of the metal in my ankle as I figure that I’m going to at least enjoy the summer before deciding if I want to get the metal removed or not. Any of you out there who have broken an ankle before do you still have the metal or not? Is it as simple a procedure as the doctor says to remove it? Do I have to go back on crutches at all?
So I’m sure you’ve heard the stories about people going in for surgery and the surgeon operated on the wrong body part. I know I had but I always thought it was one of those tall tails that didn’t happen very often until today. My co-worker’s mom went into surgery yesterday for a repair to her ACL. The doctor signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on and then left the nurses to prep her mom. During that time some of the nurses went on lunch break and others took over. During the middle of this somehow the nurses ended up prepping the wrong leg. The surgeon started performing surgery on the wrong leg and got in and couldn’t find anything wrong with the ACL but stated sometime the ACL starts to repair and therefore kept scraping the tendon away trying to find the problem. He finally realized that they were on the wrong leg too late and then had to replace that tendon because of all the damage caused while in there. He then called my co-workers father and told him what happened and asked if he wanted the surgeon to still fix the bad leg (the leg he was supposed to fix in the first place). They decided they might as well go ahead and fix it. She now has had both tendons replaced even though only one was supposed to be fixed.
I can’t even begin to imagine especially if the surgeon had signed the leg that he was supposed to do surgery on how you mess up like that. Sad to say, as I’m not a suing kind of person, but this is a lawsuit waiting to happen and this is why our health insurance premiums are so high. We all make mistakes believe me I make mistakes in my job time and again its just doctors have a higher risk when they make mistakes.
Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 6:23 pm on Monday, September 18, 2006
So I went from slowly re-learning how to walk again with my broken ankle to now last week I was hospitalized again this time for a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs). The past 5 days I have been in the hospital from clots in both of my lungs major ones in my left side and clots in my right leg. This all resulted from the combination of having surgery on my broken leg and the fact that I use birth control. So now for the rest of my life I will be off birth control and for the next 6 months I will be on Coumadin (blood thinners) and have a different diet. Well thats the update for now I go from one hospitalization to the next. My personal opinion right now is I’m ready to be done with hospitals but yet I’m very thankful as it could have been alot worse in the long run!
Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 5:25 pm on Monday, August 21, 2006
After 3 long months I can walk again! I can where two shoes again and where pants again. For those of you this hasn’t happened to you have no idea how much the little things mean! I still have a limp as I try and reteach myself to walk, I have a nice size scar and my foot is still really swollen but you know what who cares I can walk!
Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 5:31 pm on Tuesday, August 8, 2006
So as I posted a while ago I broke my ankle on May 20th and it has been a slow recovery but here’s the good news, in a week and a half I lose the boot for good! Thank goodness too as I have a wedding to be in on Labor Day weekend. I’m praying that I can walk normal by that weekend but we will have to see. Therapy has been going well on my ankle so that’s good but you never know what its going to be like until you walk on it.
Filed under: General, Health Related — Christi at 7:24 pm on Saturday, June 10, 2006
Well as I said I broke my leg the other week and let me tell you I don’t like seeing how much things cost. Luckily I have medical insurance but I have no idea how much they cover. My little broken ankle was so far 15,000 that’s alot of money. One thing that you have to be careful of though is I received my bill which was not itemized. I kind of wanted to see what made up this cost and so requested an itemized bill and upon looking at it realized they charged me for 1 more screw then was in my ankle (I have the picture) and they charged me for 3 physical therapy sessions and I only had two. You have to be careful and for all those people that don’t have insurance get some! That’s just my recommendation after seeing these bills I can’t imagine not having some.
Well I had some excitement this past weekend. I was helping my brother move out of his place after he graduated. My mom and I were moving a mattress down the stairs and I thought I was down all of the stairs and I wasn’t. I missed one and my left ankle twisted and sprained slightly and my other ankle went snap crackle pop! I knew instantaneously that it was broken. I helped that there was a huge bump! So in Eau Claire they did Conscious Sedation and set my foot. They said I wouldn’t remember but I remembered them setting it although it was dulled thank goodness. Then I got put on pain medication and we drove back from Eau Claire to our Hometown of Waconia. There I got checked into the Ridgeview Medical Center where the next morning I had surgery. Apparently I broke all three bones possible in my ankle. Talented I am. So now I’m on pain pills and off from work for a week. I’m going to be going stir crazy I have a feeling. Any good websites that any one is aware of to waste time I would appreciate.
