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Well i went to a surprise b-day party for a friend and i was going out to the picnic table with some BBQ and i tripped and fell backward landing on a bunch of bushes and all the BBQ went all over me. It just made me mad cause alot of people were drinking and they assumed i was to and said she should not be taking meRAB and drinking to I WAS NOT i know better. The first fusion never took do you really think i would be that stupid. Not that i fell hurting my feelings didnt bother me but all the RUMORS is what made me mad.

I just truely have no balance like when we got home we have no handrails on steps and i missed the step almost falling again but i caught the trailer saving me. I never wanted to get one but i know i need a cane so i do not fall. I dont think i hurt myself but i will call the dr on monday just to be sure.

Has anyone ever fallen while like 4 weeks post-op when your fusion is healing and what did the dr say? i am really concerned i something may trigger the fusion from healing?
 
Oh sorry i forgot yea i have the spoon theory and i loved it alot and printed it.
 
Yes huband slipped on the ice and legs went up in the air and landed down on his recent back surgery. He had a cane but didn't do his feet any good as he didn't see the ice(under snow) so but his back survived it all...they have his back so screwed together nothing moved.
 
Actually I bent down because my dog was getting sick on the carpet and I pulled him to the tile floor. I had a searing pain down my spine. I know I was scared to death as you are. I was fine. Our backs are amazingly pretty strong with all that hardware in it. More than likely you have just set yourself back a couple of days but we are not doctors so I would definitely follow up with your doctor on Monday or sooner if the pain becomes severe.

As far as the cane, if you need it, please get one. Better to be safe and to prevent accidents. I had to submit to one after my last surgery in Noveraber and I still am using it today. I don't like using it but that cane has saved me a couple of times because I have balance issues. I suspect that I am dragging my foot a little.

Somedays I can walk around without it but there are other days that I need that cane. I find when I am out I need it when more because I become tired and need the support. I have also found that sometimes the ground is uneven or a couple of times some loose carpet has reached out and attacked me almost making me fall.

I am so sorry that happened to you at the barbecue and I just don't understand why people must gossip like that. I just pray that everything is okay and that you will not be to sore in the morning. Take care and please keep us posted. We care!

P.S. My doctor did a xray to verify that the hardware was in still in place.
 
I have fallen and almost fallen numerous times. I too have failed fusions and think that the falls come from that. I remeraber once at work, I caught myself from falling, twice in an hr. and one of the employees, kind of jokingly and kind of honestly, asked if I had been drinking. I do use a cane and if I think it is going to be a long walk or that I will have to stand in a line, then I use a walker. I don't like having to use the walker and I use to not like using the cane, but I have torn both my right and my left rotator cuRAB. I am too afraid to fall and injure myself any more, which makes it a little easier to use. As a hint, I began using my cane in stores like walkmart etc. where I was less likely to see anyone I knew. Once I got use to that, then I told my boss that I had been using a cane outside of work and that 1 day I might need to start using it at work. She was wondering why I had not used it sooner than at that point.

Good luck.:angel:
 
I had a two level fusion in 2000, and fell the first week after the surgery. I had a small pond in my garden, and the raccoons would fish around in it...and one time they managed to move the filter outlet tube, and drained the pond. I put chicken wire over the top to slow them down, and they had moved it while I was in the hospital...I went out there at night, I didn't see it, and got tripped by it. I called the neurosurgeon the next day, and he just blew it off....my fusion was later determined to have failed. I would call your doctor on Monday, and if you're having any unusual symptoms...push to have it checked out.
I feel the same way about canes, but use one when I absolutely have to.
And I really know what it's like to have people gossiping about your "drinking" when you haven't been. I haven't had a drop of alcohol for over twenty-two years...but sometimes I've been in a lot of pain, and on a lot of pain meRAB, and then made some mistakes at work...and would then hear the whispers of "has Bill been drinking?.." O well, as they say "To thine own self, be true."
I wish you the best of luck with your fusion. Bill
 
Thanks i hope all is good i cant afford it not to be. That was the reason they did this one anterior/posterior because the PLIF was a failed fusion so they hope double teaming it will get it. My back is screwed this time with bigger and longer screws than before the only thing that bothers me is that they had to leave the srews that are londged in a disk in there that had broken i dont want them messing abything up but i dont think they will come out cause they said that is why they are going to leave them it would be more trouble to get them out. So i dont know.
 
Gosh, I'm sorry, Tm... It's amazing how some people just do not get it, don't understand anything about being in pain and having to live an altered life b/c of pain. Have you ever read the spoon theory? It was theory thought up by someone with lupus to try to show/explain to others what living with pain, fatigue, & other symptoms is like. But, that theory can relate to anyone with pain, or really any disease where one finRAB it hard just to get through one day. If people without any medical problems read it, they might understand a little better. I can't direct you, but if you even come upon this theory, it might help to print it and have others read it. Maybe they have more empathy & understanding to know how you feel...

It's certainly not good that you fell, but hopefully landing on the bushes was enough cushioning not to do any damage to you. You should probably call your doctor, though, maybe he'll want to do some imaging like Pepper's did, to make sure nothing happened in there.

I didnt' have fusion, but I had laminectomies from L3 thru L5. I had one refill of pain meRAB afterwarRAB, went to pharmacy to have it filled (so it was only like maybe 2 weeks after surgery, I can't remeraber exactly anymore)..I went to put some things down on a chair by the pharmacy and didn't think about or notice that I was standing right smack in front of the door where the pharmacists come in & out of. And of course in the few seconRAB I was standing there, someone came out of that door, and wouldn't you know....the door knob on the outside got slammed right smack into my incision area. It couldnt have gone to left or right, it had to end up right in the middle of it! I almost lost my breath from the pain and also worried that my whole incision might be open. The girl who came out the door did feel really bad, she had no way to see that anyone was on the other side of the door, nor did I see and I didn't even think about the door there or that someone might come out of it while standing there. Then the pharmacists came out, people in the store were looking at me....I'm sure they were now panicked, too... I just asked them to look and see if I was bleeding, which they said I wasnt. But that was nerve racking as well, thinking my wound was ripped back open, and hoping nothing else happened since I was missing bone in that area. But things like this always happen to me....I am like Murphy's law :::shakin my head::: But in the end, everything seemed to heal okay. (Well, I have problems again but I don't think it would be related to that)
 
Thank you all and yea it was the gossip that got to me and not really anything else i ddint care about the food falling on me it was just all the talk.
I wasnt really sore this morning which is a good thing hopefully it didnt hurt anything. And i have no aditional pain anywhere i just had to leave church early cause the pain in my right leg was just getting so bad. And what do i do i get on here instead of laying down. Cause i have my twins b-day party in a couple of hours. I know its been alot in the few days but i will have monday to rest all day kidos go to school and hubby to work.

Will keep you posted as to what the dr says.

Oh i am soory that happened to you babybreeze i hope you were ok.
 
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