Broken

Things here have been turned up side down. On Wednesday on the way to class, on campus, I slipped and fell on the ice. A nice student helped me up and I limped to class. The pain, however, continued to get worse. I just figured that I had pulled a muscle in the fall. Actually I was more pissed off about spilling my Starbucks coffee than I was about the fall at the time.

Anyway, Gregg made his way back home from Florida yesterday, and made me go to the ER. Long story short, they sent me home after some X-rays and told me that I had swelling in the joint. This morning I woke to an urgent phone fall from the hospital. Apparently the doctor I saw last night is in some serious trouble because it turns out that I have a "buckle fracture of the medial femoral neck" - which is the top of my femur where it connects to my hip is partially fractured. He didn't see it and when they sent my pictures up to Ortho, it was spotted immediately.

Because we live in the sticks, I have to wait to get an MRI on Monday or Tuesday to see what the plan of action is. Until then I am stuck sitting or laying around on pain killers. What fun! So, not sure when I'll get around to posting again. I'm hoping that is a fast healing sort of thing, but it would be my luck that it wouldn't. Two weeks into Spring classes and I'm already contacting all of my professors with something that sounds completely made up to me. I mean, what 32 year old falls on the ice and breaks the strongest bone in their body?

Lucky, lucky me, that's who.