Falon73 here, thought I'd give an update on my healing progress since my accident for those interested.
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not sure if I am putting this in the right spot on the forums. but im sure someone can move it if I didn't.

 

Ok so few months back I had major accident on my scooter that ended up breaking both my left arm ( Humorous in 4 places, crush left clavical and dislocated shoulder and elbow socket) and my Right arm (lower bones below the elbow sorry cant member the names of them) severly bruised my liver and left kidney. with lots of miscelanious scraps and bruises.

how did this happen you ask, well we have a street in town with 5 lanes 2 on each side and 1 middle turning lane. I was in the inside lane (for all purposes of this conversation will say right side of the road ) (and yes I know some people like to drive on the left side) well as I was headding home some guy (only known as male because of other witnesses. I never saw him/her) pulled out on to my lane like he didnt see i was there and just stoped in the middle of the road for no reason any one could fanthom. ( I believe it was some kind of SUV ) bikes, scooters have slower breaking system if you hit it to hard you flip or other things. well with less than 8ft to the back of the guys SUV at 30mph I hit my breaks and obviously a lil to hard fliped my scooter over me crushing me into the payvement (mind you no protective wear, wearing shorts shirt flipflops) stood up arms flopping about tried to pick up my scooter people are ghasting in my direction.

several men and women got out of their vehicals on both side of the road (appearently they never seen this kind of accident before so they stoped traffic on the road on both sides. lol) few of the men tried to get me to go over to the curb several other men and women picked up the many many pieces and move them to the curb of what was left of my $1500 scooter and only transpertation, now probly worth just scrap.

one of the sets of people were people i knew from a computer repair work i do for them and offered to take all my scooter / belongings to my house since they knew where i lived. by this time 8 cruisers of Muskegons finest show up and start taking info from witness ( notice no fire truck or abulance in the first 15mins  they still at the cop donut shop i think. ) cop asks if i have insurances and registraition I said our state doesnt require insurances on anything 50cc or less and every Insurance company i called would not insure it anyhow. cop was oh ok thought it was a 250cc. said yes i have registraition but i cant move my arms  to get it for you. (they issued me a ticket for this because i couldnt get to my registraition in my wallet that was in my pocket. (cop would not go into my pocket after it either. :( ) alls good though I won that one in court when my dad went in for me on the account i couldnt get in because of new titanium rod)( I'll explain more on the rod just wait. ) so anyhow about 25-30mins goes by and finally fire truck shows up and about 5mins after that the ambulance shows up.  off to emergency I go. weee (thank god for Deloded or how ever that pain killer is spelt.)

Hackley Emergency only xrayed my left arm and only at the shoulder. they sent me home with no cast or anything and another shot in the butt. no script for pain killers

they did refer me to a orthpideious (or how ever its spelt) basicaly bone specialist. or so he thinks. :( pfft.

Dr. Fett (If you ever need a bone specialiest do not ask or go to him

Next day I went to Mercy General where they did full body catscan & xrays. (where i found out i was worse than even I though (didn't know my right arm was broke was still kind of using it. hurt alot though) Mercy General sent me home with another pain shot & nice script for some pain killer called norcos. also they set me up in a splint on both arms and some other bandages.

1 week after accident  they finaly set my appointment to come in and see him (Arm is sweelled up and blood bruises all over it.) doc tries to patch me up  by just putting me in left arm cast and right arm cast. then sends me home with script for more norcos. and says ill see you in 2 weeks to see how your mending.

2 weeks later I go back to Dr fet right arm feels fine now (been using it with out cast for bout 3 days) left arm and shoulder acke so bad i want to have some one amputate it. he decides it wont heal on its own (left arm) and that i would need surgery. he has his schedual nurse set it for 2 weeks after  the visit as hes going on a vacation. was set for a monday in octorber of 2013. (nurse forgot to schedual it) I was told by the nurse before i left his office I would recieve a call from the surgery head nurse to give exact time of surgery the day before, the day before the surgery, comes and goes no nurse calls me with time.

next day I get up make few calls the nurse at the surgery office says i have no set surgery schedual, she calls dr. fetts office to find out why. as dr. fett was schedualed to be in the surgery room for 8hrs that day for multiple surgerys. she gets back to me couple hours later. ( I had been told not to eat or drink anything from midnight on.. its not 11am and im diabetic. :*( my sugers going out of wack and droping fast. I tell the nurse she tells me to take a smidge of gluco to get it back up. and goes back to trying to find out why im not schedualed. at 5mins to noon she calls back and asks me to get a ride to the mercy surgery out paitient and to sign in by 12:45pm and she can squeez me into Dr. Fett's Schedual. Im thinking ok. still nothing to realy eat suger feeling low and nothing to drink to to mention tons of medications not being taken because they also told me not to take any of them so my asthma was acting up a bit. My mom has her home health aid rush over pick me up and take me in. (thank god someone has a vehical lol)

well most of the begining is like normal for most surgerys take your cloths off get in the gown and kiss your arse good by, nurse comes in gives me something to take, then anastieziologist (or how ever its spelt) comes in and starts his thing he deadends my entire left nervous system but forgets to tape the drip line down so it gets ripped out, and he has to come back and re poke me, im i dont care i cant feel anything atm anyhow. then I get another shot in my IV and Boom I see notun but clouds.

I wake up groggy like most do from surgery, they called my mom about complications inside the surgery room (freaked her out bad enought to have her husband shove her into a taxi and come to the hosipital.) Still dont know what all realy happend. Doctors never seem to want to tell all.

so I spend the night in the hospital and wow i had a realy smexy nursy at night but i was to messed up from meds to even say hi. lol then in morning i get woke up by a way to happy nurse that was kind of flakey through out the day. the Nurse TA how ever was very nice. :)

finaly got to go home..... yay or so i thought. Mom was so freaked out because i live alone in my apartment she wouldnt let me go home she took me back to her very small 2 bedroom appartment. I lasted a week there before i had to go home.... I just couldnt take the mother smother lol sorry mom. (PS I LOVE YOU MOM!)

so the next time i would se dr fet was about 3 days after surgery i wasnt schedualed to see him till after a week or so. but I had gangreen growing out of one of my incisions. nasty stinky stuff. so they put me on somethin callee cephlexian 500mg  or something (sorry i suck a spelling complicated words) it was an antibiotic. and it cleared up with in the 10 days i was on the antibiotic.

went back to dr fett and they take X rays of the left & right arm finally he lets me have my right arm back yay mostly cause i pressured him saying it felt fine then proceded to show him the various full functioning motions i could put it through. my left arm though he was not happy with.

left arm clavical healed up ok still dislocated at shoulder and elbo and about inch and half of space between the broken bones on the humorus the rod hadnt been put in quite right and was too long for my humorous by about an inch So now im growing new bone im told and it will day 3-6 months before we see any real progress of growth. :(  any how Dr fett gives me some techno bable i didnt understand completely about sudo paralyzation or something... for my left arm... this isnt good im thinking. so he wants to start me on physical therapy asap for the left arm that hasnt even healed yet. less than weeks after surgery. :( referal nurse says someone during the week will contact me about setting up a physical therapy apointment.

time goes by  no one calls 1 week then next week wensday i call the nurse back and asked whats up, shes looks into it

thursday i get call back from nurse referals never sent info over the the physical therepy place so no one knew to call me. god I love my backwards health community we get now cant wait to see what obama care is going to be like.

any she has them call me friday and they are booked for another 2 weeks.

dr fet sees me on monday and hes like my god man who screwed up this time.

i say... I was told it was referals fault.  he looked pissed. nothing we could do at this point.

first day of physical therapy guys checks motion range of left arm nothing strenuous.

next time i come in the next week i get a girl she starts by massaging my arm (i believe to loosen up my muscles or somethin) then she starts moving my arm to see how far my motion ranges go and how much muscle strength i have. absolutly none. cant even twitch my pinky at this point.

go home. 

FYI at this point I noticed the day before this appointment with my physical therapist a red spot in the middle of my bicept outer arm. kinda sore kinda warm to touch didnt think much of it.

3-5 days later i have another physical therapy appointment. My arm is throbing where the red spot is and its hot as heall to touch, melts full ice cube in like 20 seconds easy. I know because i timed it was 21.3 secs to be exact. and wasnt a small ice cube.

I go into see my physical therapist and hes like damn man when did this happen. im like about last week or so just before my 2nd appointment i noticed it. hes like well were not doing anything today you need to see your doctor or get into the emergency room asap today.  so called doc offfice they are booked. so dad took me in to E.R. where they oh you have a surface skin infection. and give me more antabiotics then send me home.

1 week later i have dr fett appointment for check up. my arm is just as sore and not realy all that great. hes like damn it I think your body is rejecting the rod and I may have to pull it out. (I am thinking to my self great and i finaly got hand wrist and some elbow use out of left arm and now ill have to start therapy all over agian.)

so I have been taking this antibiotics and my arms starting to look and feel better except for the skin is peeling away where the red spot like 3-5 layers worth and few of the spots look white/yellowish and pussy. but hay the throbs gone and its not hot to touch. I see dr fett next week. currently 12/14/2013.

Wish me luck I will try to keep this updated for those who care. I may have missed few things or ran off on tangents I suck like that sorry. also ill try to figure out way to get pictures of my xray put up for those interested in seeing it.

 

 

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Sounds like a rough run mate, Keep getting better. 

Hope things look up for you and don't forget to ride with gear on when you're patched up.

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Quote:(they issued me a

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(they issued me a ticket for this because i couldnt get to my registraition in my wallet that was in my pocket.

What. Just, what.

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ow!

Oh man that sucks! I hope you keep getting better.

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:(

I hope you have a fast recovery :)

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ended up breaking both my

ended up breaking both my left arm ( Humorous

That doesn't sound very humerous to me at all.

 

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Damn man. Hope your recovery is a swift one!

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Man that's rough. Hope you make a quick recovery!

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Geez dude, that's horrible.

Geez dude, that's horrible. Good luck with your recovery.

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Heal up mate!

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Thanks :)

Thank you every one for positive comments ad encouragement.

2 days till i see the doc and find out weather or not I will be having another surgery to remove the metal parts the put in or not, I'm hoping no, because I realy do not want to restart my recovery all over from scratch. :(

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Plus if they leave them in, you're practically Iron Man. So there's always that. It does make going through Airport security a bit more annoying though.

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hope you all the best

hope you heal up quick. and wow US medical care system sounds retarded. i have to say this, im glad i live in Canada

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Oh my god. Feel better!

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Keep us posted

I hope things are getting better for you :) I miss playing together <3 

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OUCH!!!

I am sorry to hear this. I hope that it is good news you hear when you go in next time. heal up fast.. and the starting pt (physical therapy) less then a week or just at a week after surgery is normal i believe when i had surgery done on my leg three days after the surgery they had me in pt doing strenght training excirsizes

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*Ouch*

That's all I can say. I really hope you feel better soon! D: Much hopes the recovery goes well.