Originally Posted by
OldTryGuy
NO PAIN HERE EITHER >>> I've been told I LIE LIKE A RUG
BTW, had a private room at the Trauma Center until some 60yo guy was brought in with cracked pelvis, multiple breaks in his right leg, bad concussion and other minor stuff. He fell from ladder while 18' up fixing his RV garage ceiling. His wife called late Tuesday and he told her he would be home the next day and back to work on Friday.
Well, I ain’t gonna lie, mine hurt like a #$&$*$! First, since it happened in such a remote area, I basically laid flat in the road for an hour until someone finally happened along. When I
finally got to the hospital, they supposedly pumped me with morphine, but it didn’t even touch the pain. I still wonder if there was any active substance in the IV.
They must’ve had me on and off the x-day table a half dozen times, because they couldn’t get the right picture angle. Excruciating! And finally, they couldn’t decide whether they were going to operate or not (they didn’t), so I was kept in suspense as part of the adventure 😃. Then the head doc came in and said I was better off breaking a pelvis than a collarbone, because they tend to heal better.....right!
My roommate at the hospital’s name was John Dillinger, from West Virginia. Guy had the exact same birth date as my Dad. Other than that he kept soiling himself and kept me up all night with a cadre of nursing staff cleaning him up.......
Thought you would enjoy swapping war stories!