Re: Icky Accident - OT - public service message
- From: CrashTestDummy <f.j.bradfordREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:38:51 GMT
Sorry to hear the accident news, Jay, but glad to hear she's now on
the road to recovery. I, however, feel faint after your description...
any morphine left?
On 31 May 2006 09:40:41 -0700, "JayC" <jwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I hope everyone had a better Memorial Day weekend my family did.
My older daughter suffered a nasty (and completely avoidable) accident
this past weekend. She went at a resorty-condo-kinda place up-state
with a friend. The first night, around 11pm, the two of them were
running across an unlit common among the condos - it was dark, and my
daughter ran into a horseshoe pit that she couldn't see. She hit the
pin at a full sprint. It opened her up like something Tami would do.
She ended up with a ragged 5-6" gash from one side of her knee to the
other, exposing most everything that is supposed to be on the inside.
If nothing else, it made it easy for the surgeon to re-attach the
innard stuff that was out of place. The primary concern was that a
section of her patella tendon was torn off of her knee cap, but it
flopped right back into place and was an easy sew-job. There were a
few other minor tendon tears, but all minor and were fixed - they
shouldn't cause future problems (hopefully). He put in a drain (yuck),
re-cut the inital tear to make a nicer scar, and stitched her up. We
took her home after she was stiched up - first time I saw the sun come
up since college, incidentally. Unfortunately, we couldn't control her
pain a few hours later with the wimpy Vicodens they gave us, so we had
to have her admitted to a local hospital were she spent the rest of the
weekend being pumped full of Morphine.
She is home and fine now, but in typical post-surgery pain, except
worse since all of the incision work for her old-school large-incision
knee surgery was done through beating with a rusty blunt object. She
felt pretty good yesterday, however, and spent a fair amount of time up
and around, even though I told her to get off of her feet a hundred
times. She had a bad night last night as a result - no suprise to me,
but she never listens and always has to learn the hard way. I've told
her a million times that I know everything, but you know how teenagers
are, especially girls. I'm just glad she didn't trip on the pit edge
and end up with the pin stuck through her middle.
Anyhoo, we'll find out in another weeks if the ER surgeon got all of
the dirt and grass out of the hole - if not it'll infect and she'll
have to go back into surgery. Assuming that doesn't happen, she should
be good to go - I figure she is looking at a typical knee-surgery rehab
of 3-6 months, so getting back together before Varsity Soccer season is
going to be a challenge. She just started summer soccer, karate
tournament season, and began learning to drive - all of which are now
on the back burner.
All of this would have been avoided if the place put covers on their
horseshoe pit pins. The management was informed the next day about the
accident, and within 10 minutes, they had covers on them, so they DID
have covers around, they just were not installed. I'm now thinking of
opening a Jayrassic Park extension campus there.
Public Service Message: If any of you have pits in your backyard, or
are members of clubs with pits, please make covers. Everyone knows
that pins are completely invisible at night - and most have klunked
their knee into a pin at least once - which hurts like hell. I made a
half-dozen pin covers this morning for my Gun club's pits. They are
just about free - all you need is a 20" piece of 2" PVC pipe - clue a
cap on one end and drop it over the pin.
Jay
CrashTestDummy - '85 RM-250
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