Today is 8 days after the car accident. Ava is healing up beautifully, and Layla was the luckiest of all of us. I ran out of pain medication today, and I have tried making an appointment with the bone and joint doctor that they referred me to when they discharged me from the ER after the accident. Unfortunately, they do not accept car insurance payments. I do not have my own private health insurance, and I don’t have the cash to pay for the appointment and then wait for the insurance company to reimburse me. So I was unable to secure an appointment, I guess I will have to just do a google search and try to find one near me that will accept the car insurance payment.
It has been 8 days since the accident, the doctor who treated me after the accident had told me that I should be able to take the sling off in 4 or 5 days. We are past that mark and I am still in excruciating pain and cannot take my arm out of the sling, otherwise it hurts even worse. So, back to the ER I go.
This time I saw the doctor that treated Layla when we were admitted to the ER last week. He ordered new x-rays on me, because he agreed with me that I should be out of the sling and not in so much pain that some Advil can’t take care of it. When he got the X-rays back, we found out that I will have to be in the sling much longer, as in 6-8 weeks longer. My shoulder does in fact have a fracture. It was dislocated badly in the accident. They took two sets of x-rays right after the accident, one right before they reset my shoulder into the joint and the other set right after. The first set of x-rays showed that I had a break in the humerus, then the second set showed no fracture. Well after some of the swelling went down, they were able to see the fracture again.
I am not happy at all about having to spend the next month and a half to two months one armed. Though I know that I need to that way I can heal up properly so that I can take care of my family. I don’t think I have to be happy about it though!
