Good Morning Everyone,
Wow I am amazed at how many people have responded. I want you guys to know that it is an awesome feeling to have the all of the support that I have gotten from this Great Community!
Its crazy reading about how many other people have gone through simmilar circumstances and had been faced with situations caused by other drivers on the road who are not as alert as they should be while operating vehicles that have 5-10 times more mass then our bikes.
You all have shared great stories, and have given me great advice from your experience dealing with similar situations, and I am truely thankful for all of it. :thumbup:
So yeah now for an update:
Physical Therapy tried to get me back on the crutches to hobble around again, and we kinda did it.. But even while doped up on percoset and morphine, the pain was still unbearable. And no one could understand why it was that bad.
That was until I found the answer late last night. Typically they dont change the dressings that they wrap my leg in after surgery. But mine had been saturated in all this orangey/yellow/red fluid that was oozeing out of my leg.. so inorder to keep it clean I had them change it that night since it hadn't been changed since wednesday even though they werent planning to have it done till tomorrow.
The nurse removed the wrapping that went from the top of my knee down to my toes and removed all of the cloth that was sticking to my leg..
Sorry if you guys are eating while reading this! haha
After everything was out of the way, I saw my ankle... The thing is inflated like a balloon, and is severely swollen. No wonder why it hurt to walk on it. It must have gotten real screwed up during the accident aswell.
There was no way for me to know that my ankle was in that condition, because when I first arrived at the hospital, my leg was obviously broken and they immediatly put it in a splint which immobilised my leg from the knee down.
That splint never came off until surgery till wednesday, which was after i was put to sleep with anesthetic.
Why the doctors didnt take note that my ankle looked like a balloon? I have no idea. But what they did do was advise the physical therapy team to get me on my feet with the crutches yesterday morning and afternoon.
Im no doctor but putting weight on a swollen ankle doesnt seem like the way to get it better.
Unfortunately there was no way for me to find out about it till now.
The docs should have picked up on it on wednesday though when they had the splint off, or better yet, before then.
So yesterday was definately interesting, and left me kind of annoyed that they didnt catch this sooner. This morning one of the surgeons assistants from wednesday came by and I let her know what I found and explained the reason why it was so painfull to get on the crutches during physical therapy.
So xrays for my ankle have been ordered and we'll just have to wait and see what they find this time.
Ill let you guys know what happens and where this whole thing goes, and once again thank you all for your support!!
