I know that nobody with any sense ever said life was fair, but come on. Tuesday I saw my arthritis dr. he said take flexaril every 8 hours, wear wrist spint and use a cold pack for my elbow/hand/arm pain and if after a while it's not helping then for me to come back.
DH had forgotten to leave me some $ that morning, he called and told me he had some $ for me if I came by where he works, so after my dr. appt. I headed there. There I was, driving down the highway, thru town, speed limit 50 mph, which rrally is a little fast through considering that there are lots of buisinesses along there and there is no turning lane. I had slowed down and add my blinker on when all of a sudden a man in an older pick up hit me from behind. According to DH, who saw the whole thing and the law he was going quite a bit faster than 50 mph. Thankfully I didn't do any thinking, my insticnts just took over, I fought the steering wheel as hard as I could cause the truck was pushing me into other lane, boy, that would have been great. Thank God I am ok, I have a variety of strains, sprains and contusions, the ,majority listed as acute . Believe me, they are. Lots of pain. I talked to the insurance adjuster today after he had gotten the pics of my car, he said, and I quote " Oh ,my God". I didn't think insurance adjusters would be surptised about the shape of many autos. He told me I have alot to be thankful for. I am. I'll probably see the car for the first time tomorrow. I left the scene in an ambulance and nobody let me see it or told me how bad it looked. All DH said was it wasn't drivable and maybe totaled. It is.
One of the emts asked about my health proir to accident, I told him, then he asked about my pain level, I told him about 7 or 8 I guess, when he repreated that to the nurse, I wish ya'll could have heard his tone, I wanted to hit him. Just because we hurt like hell, are we supposed to be crying or moaning or yelling? I don't cry often, no big reason I don't guess, I just don't. I mean, most of the time will it help anything? No. I wanted to tell him off. My pain stays at about 5 or 6 most of the time anyway, unless I'm in a flare. I told him I have fibro. I also hadn't had a pain pill yet that day, I was out and had just a script from the dr.
The pain from the wreck has only gotten worse so far. So I am taking percocet and flexaril and ibprophen every time I can. Oh, wait. Here's the best part...the dr. wanted to give me vicoden for my pain
. I had already told him I had gotten a new script from arthritis dr. just a few hours before for the percocet. They finally brought me a percocet. I sure ould hace rather had a shot of some kind, but the pill helped a little especially being that I hadn't yet eaten anything that day and it was about 5 when I got the pill, accident was a few minutes past 2.
Well, one good thing...DH starting new job on the 27th and will have a work truck so I can drive our pickup and won't need another auto for a while, and you know, my car would have been pain for in May. Just 3 more payments! Oh, well, it could all be alot worse and am very thankful it wasn't and isn't. I'll just be so glad when all this extra pain is over with, my reg. everyday pain is plenty.
Thanks for letting me complain a while again. Hope you all are havinga better day than usual.
April
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