Though the sails are outspread, she lies still on the salt sea

[sovay]

I have apparently sprained my elbows. I am covered in Ace bandage. I had no idea that could happen.

(No X-rays were taken; the nurse practitioner thought the chance of a fracture was sufficiently small that imaging was uncalled for, although if I wake up tomorrow with worse pain or heavier bruising or suddenly restricted movement, I should call back immediately and get myself irradiated. Chances of bone bruise are quite high, given local coloring and the ways I responded when she prodded the affected areas.)

My lower back looks normal for having had a stair-step whacked into it; my neck looks a bit whiplashy, so I have some exercises for it. All of me hurts slightly more than it did before the appointment, because of the examination, but I expected that. The sprain explains the pain from typing, opening doors, manipulating knife and fork, all the million normal small movements that daily life is heir to.

The bandages are going to take a little getting used to.

Comments

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Oof, very sorry to hear that. Hope you are more comfortable and healing nicely now. My daughter had a radial head fracture recently. Its existence was deduced mainly by symptoms, as it wasn't properly visible on the first X-ray, but the X-ray after it healed showed the place where the fracture had been more clearly. They only put it in a sling anyway (too much restriction of movement during healing is apparently not supposed to be good for the sort and degree of injury she had). I've always had this image (as it were) of "Oh, they will X-ray it, and then they will Know All," but it doesn't actually always work that way.