#fractured pelvis

[orthomiami]

How to Sit Comfortably with a Fractured Pelvis: Tips for Optimal Support and Recovery

Discover practical tips and expert advice on sitting comfortably with a fractured pelvis. Learn how to manage pain, choose supportive seating, and promote healing during your recovery journey. Orthomiami provides comprehensive guidance to help you regain comfort and mobility.

[infinite-celestial-harmony]

Anybody that’s been hit by a car want to tell me what happened to you? I recently got hit by a truck and I’m bored at home all day doing nothing so I just want to hear other people’s stories and if you have any ideas for keeping yourself entertained when you’re trapped in the house

[mydags]

Wow..

What a day… migraine all day… busiest clinic to date. My cat was majorly constipated with a high likelihood of megacolon…. fuck me.. and the icing on the cake Sometime in her life with me…. during one of the times she escaped my house. One of the two times she was gone for over a week and a half or more….. she suffered a major injury and had a fractured pelvis…… which is now healed….which was causing issues in her colon moving things like it should…. fuck me jesus tits….. will post pictures as soon as I get to see her and pick up a copy. Well wishes would be amazing. I’m so astounded I never saw this in her. Shw never favores her leg or acted like she had pain in the back end. I feel like a major failure to my cat. This is going to be extensive and expensive. Possible surgery to fix her pelvis AND maybe surgery to fix her bowel... god's have mercy on our souls issues…. help.

[xsilverbackx]

Well, that was about the worst fucking news I could have gotten right now.....

[clockworkprinceherondale]

I just feel the need to share this story

I am disabled at the moment, using crutches or a wheel chair to get around. I have a fractured pelvis, thus going to the bathroom I need a little more support then the normal person. I really just need the side rails.

I was at a restaurant  and needed to go to the bathroom, so I hobbled over there on my crutches and when I got to the bathroom all 3 stalls were taken, including the handicapped one. Which, honestly, didn't bother me at all. The two regular stalls came out and left, which means it was me, some lady by the sinks talking to her friend in the handicapped stall.

Now, when you see a person with crutches and they aren't moving to the regular stalls, you would assume that they needed the handicapped stall. But no, the girl at the sink did not inform her friend that there was a girl who was in need of the stall. I also saw the feet of the woman in the handicapped stall, and she was standing in the middle of it. Not by the toilet but in the middle, telling her friend she would be out in a second she just had to redo her hair.

When she FINALLY got out of the stall, she looked right at me, saw my crutches (which I know she did because she made a face at them) and then STOOD IN FRONT OF THE DOOR TO THE HANDICAPPED STALL.

This bathroom is by no means roomy so there was no way for me to get to the handicapped stall without running this woman over. 

So I politely asked if she would move out of the way. What I got back was a snarky remark that was along the lines of "Why can't you use one of the OTHER stalls that are free. You're young enough."

This lit a fire under my ass because I do NOT want to be in this situation. So my response was "Well, I can't because I am HANDICAPPED. I have a fractured pelvis and I need the extra room and the hand rail on the side of the wall so I can easily sit down."

She had the nerve to sniff at me and tell me it was my fault that I fractured my pelvis, probably "driving like an idiot teenager".

I told her that in my five years of driving, I have been in only one minor fender bender, this fracture was from a horse back riding accident, and that I am in physical pain standing there arguing with her, with something that she knows nothing about and doesn't need to know anything about and that she "should move your ass out of the way before I call the manager and get you thrown out for being so rude."

She stuck her nose in the air and walked out with her friend looking down in shame.

I'm sharing this story because I know that, many of you wouldn't do something like this and I love you all for that. I'm doing this because it helps me relieve some frustration and to remind everyone that if you see someone with a disability, to not feel sorry for them, but to make sure you are doing what you can to help that person out.

Even if that's asking them if they need a door held for them or something off the top shelf or if you're in the handicapped stall and a friend is outside, that they give you notice that there is someone in need of that stall as soon as possible. 

You don't know their back story, you don't know how they got their injury, and you certainly don't know any special needs that that person may or may not need. Don't assume. Ask. (Politely that is)

Thank you

[authorjoeypaul]

Pain Scale

Since my most recent fall and subsequent extension of my fractured pelvis, my pain scale has been reaching new heights. I've been lucky enough that my GP is fairly understanding and has me on fentanyl patches, plus oxy twice a day and both severdol and oramoprh for break through pain, which there seems to be a lot of.

I just found out that my resit exam in on the 16th October, then on the 17th I see my respiratory specialist and then on the 19th I see a new doctor - Endocrinologist - who is supposed to be a fresh look at what the hell is going on with me and my body. Maybe they might be able to shed some light on it all.

Either way it's going to be a busy week and with my fracture now at six weeks to heal it's going to be a painful one too since I can't sit for long and only really find laying down as something where it doesn't hurt too much...ugh, this sucks!

[authorjoeypaul]

So, I collapsed again

This is starting to become a habit. My carer is saying that on Monday when I call the GP, she's going to insist on them coming out to me because this is just stupid. It used to be that my "party trick" was breathing problems and now I'm switching it to the collapsing. Either way, now that the fracture is worse because I landed on that side, the pain has ramped back up.

The amusing thing is I got my "Work Focused Interview" letter, it's on October 8th at 11:50am. I've been told (in the letter) that I have to either attend or give an "acceptable reason" why I can't or my benefit will be stopped or reduced. So, I'm off to see them with proof of my uni registration so they can see that I am at least trying to do something that will get me ready for work...

...the problem is that while I'm falling/collapsing everywhere and with my pelvis fractured I'm not sure if I'll be well enough to go to it, I think I'm going to have to because I don't want to test what they believe to be an "acceptable" reason. I mean, I haven't seen my GP yet, it's all been through telephone appointments and my carer going to pick up my scripts because I am NOT well enough or mobile enough to manage it. I'm spending most of my time in bed, in pain, barely able to move. The only thing I am managing is damaging my liver with pain meds and sometimes I'm able to revise for my upcoming exam.

They also kicked up a bit of a fuss about me needing my carer present and said that I should really attend alone. Yeah, well I *can't* so you'll have to suck it up and deal with it to be honest.

I can barely go three days without having some kind of fall/collapse, I can really see that working in the work place. Who is going to hire someone who a) needs someone with them at all times, b) is off sick more than they work c) can't tell you from day to day whether they can even come in and d) is off at the hospital all the time There was an agency who worked with getting disabled people back to employment and guess what? The government cut their funding and shut them down. Good going guys!

I just hope the place is wheelchair accessible, because walking is not an option right now...