skatha Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 If me having to have ankle surgery to correct a misdiagnosed fracture wasn't enough, my husband was the bottom car of a 2 car pileup last Tuesday. In addition to a badly broken leg, he had internal injuries and it was a scary 2 days for us. Things are definitely looking up now, but the orthopod told me Sam would likely have some arthritis in the right ankle. Crap!!!!! He's having 2 surgeries to clean up the leg(it was an open fracture) and then a plate to hold the tibia together on Thursday. We hadn't scheduled our Tahoe trip for January because 1. my ankle surgery and 2. the crappy snow... Recent casino shootings are helping either....... First I was thinking to fit our third trip late March-early April but now the third trip looks to be a wash.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Sub Posted December 4, 2005 Report Share Posted December 4, 2005 ack! internals working out ok? thats scary. odds are it was just some idiot not paying attention? dangerous. glad he's ok...relatively at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatha Posted December 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Well, D....He had his spleen removed. He was placed in a back room and I had showed up to this ER(not my hospital's) with my white coat still on. He started to drop his blood pressure and I started telling his nurse what to do. Most worrisome for me is the nagging feeling he would have died if I hadn't been there-the urgency to deal with his injuries wasn't the same as I have when dealing with a similar circumstance and I watched the clock, so I know and I've had multitrauma patients so I know( as a doc). He's in a bigger hospital now with really good orthopedic specialists.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 Oh wow! I wish him a good recovery very fast! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Sub Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 god thats even more scary, and even more fortunate that it worked out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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