Exactly as the title says. I literally broke my butt in the parking lot at work.
Yesterday, when I got off of work, I was walking across the parking lot, and stepped on some ice and my feet just came out from under me. I literally laid myself out. Landed on my butt first, then fell back on my head. While on the way down, I hit my left elbow and right palm, hit my head and my tailbone.
So, I picked myself up, walked back into the clinic, luckily my boss and 2 co-workers were still there. One of the nurses called security, and they came and took my statement. Took pictures of my face and feet. After I finally got ahold of Mike, to pick up Jonathan, and after hearing him tell me that I need to go to the ER, I was put in a wheelchair and wheeled off to the ER.
The security guys were very nice and helpful and genuinely seemed to care that I was hurt. ER clerks registered, triaged me and then I got wheeled back to a room. My boss stayed with me until Mike showed up.
Just so you know, where we live was hit with a major ice storm a few days ago. Our parking lots at work had some areas still covered with ice and the ER at the hospital where I work saw 250 people from just falls on the ice on Thursday. There were also a lot of employees that fell and injured themselves on the ice.
So, I’m in the room, had to get a gown on. I had to also have a picture of my head and palm and elbow taken for security’s record. They debated on taking a picture of my tailbone, but the charge nurse nixed that. Thankfully. 
So, I was given some tylenol and we waited. And waited. And waited.
Finally after being there for about 45 mins, the Nurse Practioner came in and checked me out and ordered some x-rays and a CT scan. I had to have a pregnancy test because 1. she didn’t believe me that I wasn’t pregnant and 2. I was child bearing age. Did the collection and then we waited. And we waited. And we waited. My accident happened at 4:40 PM. I was wheeled to the ER at about 5pm. The NP saw me at 5:30 PM. Then at 5:50 PM I was wheeled to CT and then over to X-ray. I was taken back to my room at 6:30 pm. Then we waited. And we waited. And we waited. The whole time I’m laying on my right side, with a stiff neck, nausea waving over me, massive headache literally going in a circle, back to front, back to front. It sucked. My butt was throbbing and hurt to even attempt to sit on my whole bottom. My head had a small lump from where I hit it and just overall didn’t feel good! At 7pm, after shivering under a thin sheet for 2.5 hours, a nurse comes in to take my blood pressure and check my oxygen level. She then says let me get you some warm blankets. Comes back with 2 warmed up blankets and then says, I get you all warmed up and then I find out you’re going to be discharged. At 7:15 pm, the NP comes back in and says well your head and wrist are ok. But you have a possible non-displaced fracture on your coccyx(tailbone).
Lovely.
She says she’s going to prescribe me some pain medicine and then we could go home. At 7:30 pm, the other nurse comes back in with my pain meds. And then she said she had to go get my discharge paperwork and said I could get dressed. So 20 mins later she comes back with the paperwork, and my RX for my pain med. Sign the paperwork, and had to stop at the front desk to get my insurance card. Oh yeah, did I mention that our insurance has to pay for this. Not work comp, even though it happened while I was at work, in the parking lot. I was off the clock. So I was told it’s not considered work comp. Oh well. At 7:50 pm we walk out the ER doors.
On the way home, we stop and get Subway. Mike said the chick in the Subway was brainless. they didn’t have the bread we wanted, and she didn’t know how to manually run his debit card since the reader wasn’t working. Meanwhile, I’m sitting in the truck half asleep from the pain meds. We stop at Walgreens to get my RX filled. Mike went in and bought me a donut for me to sit on. Get home and Jonathan was still up. I was happy to see him, and he asked me if I felt better now. He really can be such a sweetie.
Sleeping last night was interesting. I like to sleep on my left side and couldn’t do that last night. Too much pain. Woke up this morning and was stiff, and so very sore. My neck was stiff. My left butt cheek is internally bruised and the soreness was moving up my back. My sternum(chest) feel really bruised. Hurts to laugh or cough. I was never so happy to get my pain medicine. After I took it, my neck started to loosen up and then finally my back and buttock. But I was also loopy .
I can’t sit squarely on my bottom just yet still. I’m hoping the soreness goes away soon. I’m still walking like an old lady. We went to Walmart today and it felt good to walk around.
So, come Monday, it’ll be an interesting time at work. I’m going to take my donut with me and probably be made fun of, but hell if it’ll help me get thru the day, then so be it!
Here is the link: Special Olympics 2011!
I keep telling myself that muscle weighs more than fat!!!! I keep pushing myself a little more each day. So far, my knees having been handling it ok! The past few days, the weather has been a lot cooler and the air is less humid which is helping my breathing while I am running.
