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[SlugButter]

Fell from a roof yesterday and just got released from the hospital with 7 broken ribs, a bruised kidney and a dislocated shoulder. Completely missed my spine or I’d have been in real medical trouble. Thanking my lucky stars today that it was just ribs and the shoulder. Pain management is going to ****, since I don’t take opioids though.

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[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

Fell from a roof yesterday and just got released from the hospital with 7 broken ribs, a bruised kidney and a dislocated shoulder. Completely missed my spine or I’d have been in real medical trouble. Thanking my lucky stars today that it was just ribs and the shoulder. Pain management is going to ****, since I don’t take opioids though.

That frikkin' sucks man! Was the roof wet or just slippery? I nailed roofs for six and was fortunate that I never fell off of any of them (knock on wood). Ice and heat will be your friend for a little while.

 

[legendndisguise 10+ year member]

Ouch man. I feel your pain. Had broken ribs and dislocated/broken shoulder as well. Good luck with recovery.

 

[SlugButter]

That frikkin' ***** man! Was the roof wet or just slippery? I nailed roofs for six and was fortunate that I never fell off of any of them (knock on wood). Ice and heat will be your friend for a little while.

It was slippery. The ground was also wet I was on an extension ladder, the bottom went out from under it, I grabbed the edge of the roof, but it was also wet. All that did was cause me to fall back first when my hands slipped off. If I wouldn’t have grabbed the roof edge, I could’ve controlled the fall better.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

It was slippery. The ground was also wet I was on an extension ladder, the bottom went out from under it, I grabbed the edge of the roof, but it was also wet. All that did was cause me to fall back first when my hands slipped off. If I wouldn’t have grabbed the roof edge, I could’ve controlled the fall better.

Your instincts took over. It probably hurts to breathe which sukks. Why won't you take any pain pills to alleviate your pain?

 

[SlugButter]

Your instincts took over. It probably hurts to breathe which sukks. Why won't you take any pain pills to alleviate your pain?

I have hydrocodone, but I don’t like pharmaceutical drugs. I will probably take 2 before bed and just use aspirin during the day. I had to prove I could take a deep breath before they would let me leave the hospital. Hurt like hell. Every movement hurts with broken ribs though.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Oh man!!! I have some severe back problems....I'm glad you didn't mess it up. I'd just say make sure you rest up well, if you can, before you try to push yourself too hard. Definitely want to let all of that heal properly.

 

[Dafaseles]

Oooooooo, that's terrible news! Recover quick man! Hope you get back to 100% soon

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I've had 2 shoulder surgeries between 16-18 years old from a dirtbike wreck where I slammed into the ground after jumping something and my front tire landed on a hidden rock, threw me into the ground right on my left shoulder. I had to eventually have 5 anchors put in my shoulder for the 5 tendons that were completely torn. Then at 19, because of my pretty bad pes cavus, a football injury that never healed, and my neurological disorder and how that messes up my connective tissue, I had a full rupture of my L5/S1. It was very bad. I'm so glad you don't have to go through that. My disk broke down over a period of years and my disk fully ruptured, because my chronic health issues make things not heal well....like my wisdom teeth. But I couldn't move or feel my entire left leg, I could only feel the right side of my thigh and no other parts of my leg. Couldn't really walk....the scheduling for the surgery and how fast my situation went from bad to worse lead me to basically going in and out of shock from the pain. I was 19, about to turn 20, when I finally had the surgery. I don't even remember the 2-3 weeks before the surgery. I was in bed, I think. It was really bad, and it was so severe that my body still thinks it's dying, and there's nothing I can do about it. How long my body stayed in the injured state broke some automatic system that your brain uses to protect your body. Ever since that surgery, which I'm so likely to have because of the type of advanced chronic health problems I have, my body is stuck in a forced state of awareness like I'm dying. My body still think it's dying, and it's been that way for 10 years. I've re-bulged the last 25% of that disk in my back in March 2020, just by bending slightly the wrong way after sitting for too long. I can't drive to go see my family or friends, for example, because I can't sit in a car....if I have to have surgery again, I'll be in debt for the rest of my life, and the surgery will almost certainly be a fusion of those two vertebrae. I've been living in a bedroom for 10 years, basically, because of what my back surgery did to my overall health.

I was getting really upset, because I have a 6 speed manual fun car as my only vehicle, and my left side sciatica is the issue. I was so worried I couldn't drive my manual, because I was having trouble controlling my left leg, due to the disk. Oh man, that mad me sad. But it hasn't fully broken yet, but it hasn't really gotten better, because my body tries to crush itself (advanced neuro problems). That's why you see me on here a lot; can't really do anything else.

So, my point is this: definitely take care of yourself. Let your body heal well; if my horrible health issues give me any credibility, then take it from me, nothing in the world matters if you have no health. No health = no life. Don't sacrifice your body for money or anything like that; you run a risk of winding up with neither.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I think I actually have pics of my shoulder surgery. I was lucky; the surgeon doctor for the TN Titans that runs out on the field when a player is injured actually did both of my surgeries. Great dude, he is a maniac with his own body, because he can fix it, but he's like a surgery genius of sorts. I was really good at football before I got sick. I was in the D1 training center as a kid with pro-football players. It was wild. Seeing a rookie roll up in his $250,000 Bentley after just signing to the Titans, up in Cool Springs/ Brentwood, TN area. Football is really rough on the body.

 

[Bobbytwonames 5,000+ posts]

I have hydrocodone, but I don’t like pharmaceutical drugs. I will probably take 2 before bed and just use aspirin during the day. I had to prove I could take a deep breath before they would let me leave the hospital. Hurt like hell. Every movement hurts with broken ribs though.

Why not take half of what they recommend during the day if you are in pain? I think Doctors prescribe too much and it really knocks people on their ***. I always take half of what they prescribe the first time and see if that does the job. Just a thought!

 

[Kickstand Premium Member]

I broke 3 ribs and my collar bone playing soccer a few years ago
I feel your pain
Pray to god you don't have to sneeze for the next week or two

 

[SlugButter]

Goddamn medications. They never work right for me. I have oxycodone and it dulls the pain a little, but I haven’t slept more than 4 hours per day when I take this stuff. It keeps me awake all night. The muscle relaxers they gave me put me in a cold sweat and uncontrolled shivering for an hour, so those are a no go. Now I have crazy muscle spasms in my back and can’t take the relaxers. Getting medications changed is impossible due to all the scamming drug addicts who use these excuses all the time to get more pills. This just reinforces my stance that I won’t take the vaccine either. None of this stuff works right in my body. One drug that did work was the IV fentanyl they gave me in the ER. I fell asleep on that stuff with 7 broken ribs, 2 hairline vertebrae fractures, a bruised kidney and a dislocated shoulder. No wonder that stuff is popular for abuse.

 

[Firewalker]

Surprised they didn't give you some Fentanyl patches to use. Those are 3 day patches that release it slowly and they work. I've used them before with good results. That or Dilaudid works as well for that stuff. Which muscle relaxer did they give you? Toradol is probably the most common one because it works. Best of luck in recovery, I've broken a rib before on a call while out as a FF'er and it hurt like hell for a month. I can't imagine 7 of them at one time.

 

[SlugButter]

My muscle relaxer is cyclobenzaprine. I don’t have problems when just laying here other than just the normal pain, but when I get up the whole right side of my back goes into spasms. It’s enough to make me nauseous. If I don’t get up from bed, I will likely get pneumonia though. It’s a little better today than it was yesterday at least. I was almost ready to call the ambulance in and take me back to the hospital.