When will it end?
August 9, 2007
I spent a lot of time at the doctors today, mainly because I was a walk-in at the emergency room in Denver, so it was very packed in there.
My original thoughts were I had just 2 broken fingers, so they sent me to get xrays and then the doctors thought my right foot was broken too. My foot has been swelling up, with pain in the ball part of the foot, and the main joint at the big toe spot. I have been unable to walk on it with any pressure so they wanted me to get that xrayed just to see how it looked.
After reading the xrays, the results came back showing my right foot is not broken, and only one of my two fingers were indeed broken. The second finger was just bruised up, but the end finger had continued to worsen and the xrays show why.
I am no doctor. However, as it was explained to me… the upper portion of my end finger was broken up into many pieces and it is unsure how much concern it went into the “joint” portion of the finger. Tomorrow morning, they are having a orthopedics specialist from the University of Colorado review the xrays and make the determination if the joint is affected. If the joint is/was affected, then they will recommend surgery.
If I was to get surgery, I have to wait about a week to do it so the swelling can come down some. It would also have to be done right at a week, because they said with no surgery, the hand would be healed in about three weeks and I would have to live with whatever it ended up healing as. So tomorrow, I find out about the extent of the damage into the joint area and whether surgery is recommended. If I do need surgery, I will entertain the idea of sticking around Colorado to do it here or getting back into Washington in time to have it done there.
My 2 fingers on my right hand are wrapped up in a joint splint (it’s so hard to type on the right side of the keyboard uggg), and for now I’ll hobble with a soft shoe on the right foot. More bruises are showing up on my shoulder and rib cage, but overall my spirits are very good and I am truly thankful and counting my blessings as it could always be worse.
About the bike…I am actually thankful that I took the dive in the soft sand as it probably lessened the extent of the damage. I am slowly ripping the bike apart looking into it more and more to see the true extent of the damage to make a determination on what to do next.
So tomorrow, I will know the final disposition on my body and my bike.
My body has been aching all day today, and I am amazed at how much the body can do and perform when running on high adrenaline as I was right after the accident. Once that adrenaline high comes down, it brings one down very fast and the up and down experience is amazing in a bad way to say the least.
Here are some pics from the day:
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