Three words: good pain killers. Stay away if you don't need them, big pharma would love to hook another customer. Max Dillon Charleston SC
Oct 7, 2020 7:18:35 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>: > I am not sure if it’s a bruised or cracked rib, or I pulled something. In any > case I am not having any trouble breathing and not coughing up or pissing > blood or anything like that so I don’t see a point in going to the Dr at the > moment. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Oct 7, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> On 07/10/2020 5:43 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: >>> When I slipped and fell in a bath tub (landed hard on right side rib cage >>> on the edge of the tub) it knocked the wind out of me for so long that my >>> wife called 911. Once the EMTs got there I was breathing fine again. They >>> shared that if I had broken or cracked ribs, adrenaline would keep the pain >>> at bay for several hours, but warned that once the pain hit, sleep and >>> movement would be very painful. >>> >>> I went to a doc in a box to get some serious pain killers and asked about >>> an x-ray to determine if I'd broken a rib. Doc was an old grizzled guy, >>> said an x-ray most likely would not help determine that, and as long as a >>> broken rib was not intruding into the body cavity, no treatment other than >>> rest and pain killers was recommended. I needed meds for the first couple >>> days, then I just used Tylenol. >>> Max Dillon >>> Charleston SC >>> >>> _______________________________________ >> >> I had a similar experience in the fall of 2012 but not quite as bad. I >> slipped and fell down the stairs in my home and landed hard on my back. I >> thought I likely cracked a rib or two but also realized the medical folks >> likely wouldn't do much about it so I did not go and get checked out. I was >> pretty sore for a while but I survived. >> >> RB >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
