Glad you are back and on the mend. Sorry it happened, glad it wasn't worse. Did it turn out that you have a sugar concern now, type 2? Hope not.
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Dale Leavens wrote: > Good evening list, > > Many of you know that I sustained a fall on Monday morning March 12 on my way > to work. The front door is in the middle of my house which faces east and > opens onto a concrete block and lockstone sort of pedestal about 20 inches > above the front lawn, the lawn slopes down to the street but is broken by a > retaining wall about three and a half feet high with a hedge behind the top > of that wall. I have a series of steps about 30 inches long which are out > about two feet from the front of the house and run down the front of the > house to the north descending below the level of the lawn but to the level of > the driveway which runs east to the avenue. I had just stepped off of the > last step onto the lockstone sidewalk along the side of the driveway when my > right foot shot out and I fell backward. I was aware that for some reason my > right toes just weren't coming up and I felt the right tibia and fibula > crunch. > > Over Sunday night we had apparently had some freezing rain that turned to > snow. > > Once I arranged my foot sort of I pulled out my cell phone and called the > ambulance, lying on my left side in the snow propping the ankle with my left > toe. I had thought of crawling up the stairs to the house and leaning on the > door bell having locked the door behind me but decided that would only hurt a > lot and I would have to be brought back down anyway. > > So I tell the dispatcher my name, where I was laying with a broken leg and > that I would require an ambulance. The joys of these people! How old are you? > what is your date of birth? Are you bleeding? Are you hurt any other place? > Did you bump your head? ... > > I finally said "Send me a freaking car now! I am laying in the snow in my > driveway and the station isn't a thousand yards from where I am laying then > hung up! Had she stopped to dispatch then come back on maybe I would have > been a little more patient. > > Then I telephoned Janet who I thought had probably gone up to the shower, she > threw on some clothes and came out to get my computer just as the ambulance > turned up. > > Soon I was in the Emergency Room and I was right, a lower quarter tib & fib > fracture. They put on a bit of a back slab after a couple of injections and I > spent the rest of the day and that night in the hospital in Cochrane then > into another ambulance to timmins in the morning where the orthopedic surgeon > confirmed what I had figured, an intramedullary rod through the length of the > tibia to just above the ankle joint then screws run in laterally just below > the knee and just above the ankle. I spent the night in the timmins Hospital > and just before noon it was back into an ambulance and back to our Cochran > Hospital early Wednesday afternoon. > > Friday afternoon they came to take a blood sugar. "Why?" My last one was > high. "That can't be, I haven't had a last one, you must have someone else > requiring insulin." > > Turns out that the admission urine test showed high sugar and my glucometry > turned out to be 19. > > So, it could be that I am now diabetic. > > I decided to stay in the hospital a couple of more days partly because I was > a bit bummed out by that news and partly to see how I responded to the > Metformin they gave me since I don't have any means of monitoring that here. > > I came home on Monday Afternoon. > > I am still a little under the weather! Non-weight bearing for 6 weeks just on > time for our trip to England on April 21st. That is going to be a pretty dull > vacation by the look of it. I will have to go back to Timmins on Tuesday for > the Orthopedic clinic, arranging a ride will be the issue but I expect in a > couple of more days much of the pain should be subsiding certainly it is a > lot better than last week. Loads of people have been very sympathetic, the > staff collection was huge, a massive basket of fruit and candy and such and > my part-time Department assistant brought around the card with as much change! > > Anyway, I have got through most of the e-mail now, I don't like to sit here > at the computer more than a little while at a time just yet. I have selected > out a couple of messages though to respond and suggest to and will probably > start that tomorrow. They are supposed to come over tomorrow to change my > dressings and some dood is to bring a stool so I can sit in my shower rather > than on a plastic milk crate in the bottom of the Jacuzzi as I am presently > doing with a hand hose although that turns out to be working pretty well. > > Anyway, here I am, limping back. > > Dan, I should be able to do most of the work-up on the router table, don't > have the fence built yet and I probably want to make a couple of different > fences but I can catch up on all the documentation. > > > > Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype DaleLeavens > Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! 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