Pain like no other. My Tibilar Plateau Fracture

So by now the pain is setting in and the memory is getting foggy. But I remember they wanted me to get from the wheelchair to the bed in the hospital to be examined.  They wanted me to stand up and that was impossible. I could not stand. I remember screaming. Somehow and I do not remember how they got me from the chair to the bed in the hospital examining room. I got into the bed and found myself curled up into a ball and at this point the pain was about a 4. However any movement sent a massive spasm of pain through my body and jumped the pain up to a 8 or more. But would not last long.

I remember thinking I am ok just here, if nobody comes and I am stuck in this position I am ok with that. But I also remember thinking NO the healing starts now. Right now I begin healing. Maybe all I can do right now is to keep positive and mentally not give up but that is ok. I am going to get back to Aaron my dog, my job doing social media, my love of cooking and so much more. I was going to get back to it. But right now I am totally fine being in this ball on the bed.

An unbearable pain

So really I have no idea how long I was laying on that bed for but they knew they had to take me to get an x-ray.  And so I had to get off the bed and onto this other bed to get the xrays. It seems like we tried a hundred times. But there was no way I was getting off the bed and onto this other one. Every time I would move my leg at all the pain would make me scream out. And if you know me I do not scream, I do not cry. I am very stoic. So for me to scream it says a lot. But  trying to get to the bed to get the x-ray done is a pain I would never forget.

The pain was off the charts. And we tried repeatedly. The patience of Nurse Jane was amazing but it was not happening.

By now I had moved from the wheelchair to the bed in the examining room. Now they wanted me to move again to a bed to get xrayed. After trying they gave up and decided the best way was to just take me on the bed I was in, sedate me, put the leg in a splint and then do the xrays. As they realized that even if I could get to the other bed and the x-ray room the pain from manipulating the leg to get xrayed would have been too much. So that is what we did.

Being sedated

I remember going there, and them doing a few things to set up. And I remember thinking for such a small room it feels like there are 30 people in here . Then before long I was fast asleep. I woke up and the first words I heard was “It is all over”. They had to cut my pants off and I had a red splint the length of my leg. Jane was there I am sure to make sure I came out of the sedation ok but I remember seeing pics of her pets as I told her about Aaron.

I was then taken to another room where I remember hearing “moving you must have been torture” and no truer words have ever been said. Little did I know what the x-rays would say and all the damage done to my knee.