I fell down skateboarding last Saturday morning, Aug 11. Hurt my left leg and left arm. So I went home, thought I would sleep it off with rest, like any other skating fall I’ve endured. When I woke up the next morning, I was messed up. Arm was hurting a little, but my groin area was really sore. Couldn’t even walk. So I went to Urgent Care, which is like the ER. They told me I had a broken left arm and a pulled left groin. Gave me some crutches, a sling for my arm, some pain pills, two days off work, and told me to walk it off. Let me tell you, it’s pretty impossible to use crutches with your arm in a sling. My arm wasn’t that bad though. The two days off work came and went, (Monday and Tuesday), I still couldn’t walk right, and on Thursday, I went in to see a doctor for my arm again. And to hopefully get the doctor’s note extended for a couple more days. The doctor told me that I was in too much pain and walking too funny to have a pulled groin, so he took x-rays of my hip. He came back and said I had a broken hip and needed surgery asap. They took me to the hospital, and Thursday night, they screwed 3 screws into my left hip. This whole time, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and half of Thursday, I was thinking I had the worst groin pull ever, and I was trying to ‘walk it off’, like they said. They released me from the hospital Friday night, (last night). They told me that out of everyone they’ve ever heard of having hip surgery, that I was the earliest they’ve ever heard of being discharged from the hospital. Less than 24 hours after surgery, I was home. That’s where I am now, at home. Off work indefinitely, 100% disability pay from work. At least 1 month minimum off work. At least 3-4 months with this walker they gave me, maybe more. The walker has this broken arm attachment where I rest my arm on it, and I can tool around my house if I need to. I’ll need that until my arm is totally better. Maybe a couple weeks with the arm attachment. Doctor said in about a year, maybe, they can take the screws out of my hip. Here’s what my walker looks like. It’s in the process of being completely plastered with skateboarding stickers If you have any skateboarding stickers, or any kind of stickers you would like to contribute to the walker, let me know and I’ll tell you how you can get them to me. I’ll be using this thing for a long time.
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