Following my spectacular, very public tumble on Monday (mentioned at the end of my previous post) I have to be sensible and have made an appointment to see my doctor in a couple of hours. Left wrist on which I landed, still very painful, making sleeping, dressing, washing and feeding cats (five of them waiting for me this morning!) slow and agonising. Was reluctant to go to Accident & Emergency (the hospital is just 5 mins walk from me) as I was only there 3 months ago with a scary, profuse nosebleed which I couldn't stop (but which I didn't blog about) and as that was the first time in my entire life that I'd been to
any A & E, didn't want to get a reputation as someone who goes round every so often just for 'fun'. So let's see what Mr Doctor advises - ice compress and rest, I'd imagine. At least all my fingers function, albeit painfully, so there's unlikely to be anything broken. More likely a muscle pull.
But not only that, I'd intended to make no less than four cinema visits this week. Number one I saw in Monday just prior to kissing the concrete, hard - but so far I've missed 'God's Pocket' (Philip Seymour Hoffman's penultimate film) and 'The Golden Dream' (re illegal Mexican immigrants to USA) - and it's looking like I'm also possibly going to miss 'Lilting', with Ben Whishaw playing the survivor of a gay relationship trying to take responsibility for the disposal of his lover's remains while his Chinese, non-English speaking mother wants to claim the body but is ignorant of the nature of the relationship between Whishaw and her son. Anyway, there's still a chance that I just may be able to catch this latter one tomorrow, even though I'm rather peeved about having missed the others. Mais c'est la vie, n'est-ce pas? (ou, en d'autres termes -
"Merde!")
A small fracture of the wrist more like
ReplyDeleteKeep us posted
Just seen doctor who sent me to A & E for X-ray, which I've now had done. They wouldn't or couldn't give me result straight away but said to see my doctor again in 7-10 days. Trouble is I've found out that he's got no slot available for a full 3 weeks, and any other doctor in his practice will be almost as long a wait. Anyway, now got to apply the RICE routine. Only hope that'll it'll help to make the three weeks wait more tolerable than otherwise.
DeleteThanks for your interest, J.G.
Ring up A& E it should be reviewed within 24 hours
DeleteI'm doing what they told me, J.G., though it doesn't fill me with confidence. My sister says that if the RICE treatment has had no significant effect by the w/e then approach A & E again. The swelling has definitely gone down a bit, but the pain is still there as before.
DeleteJust commented on the previous post and then saw this one. Hope all goes well at the doctor. (I prefer my own doctor to Emergency, which I've been forced to do twice in my life.) Hope the rest of the body isn't too achy and that lip is already healing.
ReplyDeleteTa for your concern, Mitch. I've responded to your comment on my previous post under there. We're surviving - so things could be a LOT worse.
Delete"MERDE!" indeed!
ReplyDeletebad crack in the sidewalk, lovey?
anyway, take advantage of your health insurance and see what the MD says. perhaps a compression wrap and ice will be recommended. let us know what happens.
I actually think it was my boots, A.M. They've got a slightly jutty-out edge to the soles and I do occasionally trip on them, but it's been a long time since I went flying and landing flat like this time. I do remember it happening once in Amsterdam and another time on a platform Paris' Gare du Nord, both well over 20 years ago - and it might well have been that this time I was shod in the very same sturdy footwear as then.
DeleteYes, all treatment is covered by our National Health Service so nothing to pay. Yes, I am going to apply an ice compression regularly now and hope the constant pain eases.
Grateful for your concern and I certainly will let you know how things develop. XXXX
smooches! please do be careful!
DeleteI've got to accept that I can't keep rushing around like there's no tomorrow, A.M., so being more careful is definitely the motto to hold to. Thanks.
DeleteI did not have to read this post to know that things were not right. The absence of a review spoke volumes.
ReplyDeleteI know just how difficult it is to function when you're in pain and have to do everything yourself, especially five waiting for food - I have three.
Hope that recovery is speedy and that you are soon seated at a movie theater seeing "Lilting" which I want to hear about. Even if you can't, I appreciate the fact that you informed me about this one. which would have escaped me.
Paul, the mental pain at not fulfilling my cinema p[ans is almost as much as the physical one.
DeleteI'm not sure if I should see 'Lilting' tomorrow as it's only showing at the most inaccessible of my regular venues - 50 mins on bus plus 30 mins walk - and then, to top it all, only this morning Blackso went and lay under a car again.
Only two of the five pussies waiting for me to rise this morning were mine. Others who come through the window have got to expect that their presence won't be shunned. The record number in wait for me has been seven!
All three films I mentioned certainly sound worth seeing. I'm particularly miffed about missing 'God's Pocket'. Tomorrow's the last day for 'Lilting' but if I don't go I'm hoping that it'll return to such a gay-aware place as Brighton, if only for an additional screening or two.
Thanks for your sympathetic words. It means an awful lot.
Hope the healing starts soon and ends quickly!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bob. Maybe it was a mistake to wait a full day before taking action, but now my fingers are crossed - at least those which I can.
DeleteRay,
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago I took an unexpected fall (tripped over a step going into the American Legion to make an appointment to see a doctor). My arm hurt so bad so I went to the dotor and indeed, I had a small fracture. You should definitely go to the doctor. You don't want to take a chance of something more serious developing. "Kissing the concrete" happens to the best of us. I never thought it would happen to me but it did.
Ron
Thanks for that, Ron. I'm doing all what the doctor recommends but so far it's not making the pain go away, or reduce appreciably - and getting to see him at all is no easy matter. But I'm the last to want to prolong the unpleasantness so I'll have to take it in easy stages.
DeleteSorry to be late to the party, as usual. What did the doctor say? Sounds like a lot of bruising occurred as well as the painful impact the body took meeting pavement. You know to take care of yourself. The doctor/nurse can help.
ReplyDeleteHope you're on the mend soon.
Thanks, C. There are certainly improvements, thanks to regular ice compresses. Swelling in hand has reduced markedly, though still visible - and I can now touch my forehead with left hand which I couldn't do a few days ago. So it's going in the right direction.
DeleteI'm following doctors order's, the only pity being that my next appointment with him isn't for another 2.5 weeks. But if improvement is maintained I can live with that. Still constant dull pain, though.