Journal johndiii's Journal: Missing Poem 21
For those of you paying attention, there was no poem for yesterday. That is because I was in the hospital, due to a car wreck. I am home now, somewhat the worse for wear but grateful that it was not more serious. The inventory of damage includes four broken ribs, a pneumothorax (air in the pleural cavity around the lungs), and a bruise on my lung (pulmonary contusion). The pneumothorax was why they kept me overnight; it had apparently resolved itself by this morning.
I'm home now, with some good drugs and a little widget that measures the volume of air that I inhale. I have to use it for ten breaths, four or five times a day. With the sort of injury that I have, one of the risks is pneumonia, brought on by breathing too shallowly over a prolonged period of time.
I'm a quick healer, so I expect that I will be better soon. In the mean time, I am learning new ways to move my body around - ones that do not put stress on my ribs.
Ouch! (Score:2)
Glad you're going to be ok. Get some good rest.
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With broken ribs, that's not very likely. Unlike a broken arm or foot, you've GOT to breathe. You have my sympathies ... Sorry to hear about the car accident.
Holy Cow! (Score:2)
Excuses, excuses (Score:2)
Yeah, okay, I guess that's good enough.
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Seriously, though: get well soon johndiii... That seriously sucks.
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Get well soon (Score:2)
Hope you mend well and quickly.
Godspeed in your recovery (Score:2)
What these^^^ guys said. (Score:2)
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Glad you are (Score:2)
Ouch... (Score:1)
Replacement Bone Poem (Score:2)
Is like a femur
Break and crush
Like a lemur
Get well soon! (Score:1)
wow (Score:2)
Wow - (Score:1)
Whoa! (Score:1)
wow (Score:1)
Get well soon. :-) (Score:2)
ick (Score:2)