What a wonderful group of friends you all are. I had tears rolling this morning when I popped.....
in (my daily routine when possible). The warmth from you all is totally overwhelming.
Thank You.
The best news is this is a stable, compressed fracture and as such needs rest and more rest.
I was quite annoyed at the lax way the out patients treatment went on Saturday evening. They were sweet but extremely laid back about everything...I guess this started with the police.
The police apparently arrived on the scene quite soon afterwards and my daughter by then was still in the car with the airbags around her and smoke coming up from the dash board and one policeman went to the car and said "you should climb out the window. Can you?" and then on leaning into the window he asked rather incredulously,"Are you DRESSED?"
She was returning from a day out on a boat and was wearing a white bikini and wrap which of course was not visible with the airbags all blown up and the policeman was taken aback at her apparent nudity!
So, feeling very shy and she managed to reach for a t-shirt and slip it on while still sitting all squidged up in there...I asked her how and she says she absolutely has no idea how she did it. She had to climb out the car through the window, her back was in a lot of pain and she found bending her legs almost impossible, however, she climbed out.
The ambulance arrived and the policeman told them she was another 'beached tourist'!
Her sister arrived on the scene about then and all her papers were in order, she is a resident, her car papers were also in order...on island you need everything handy in this sort of case including your insurance otherwise they will not help you with alaccrity, and will do nothing at the hospital until all is paid up!!!(remember that travellers)
We got to the hospital as she was being taken from the ambulance.
Everything was very slowly done but done it was and she was told she could go as there was no fracture just a little bit of compression (which was actually told to us and an "impression").
Only when I collected the x-rays on Monday morning did we have doctors jumping around about the fracture and how it was a fracture we could not dismiss but needed a CT scan. The waiting game was played all day and finally only after 5 pm did the 2nd doctor tell me it was imperitive to have the scan.
THAT is when I started to really worry as the 2nd doctor was rather annoyed, to say the least, that she had been allowed home even.
Well, friends, it has turned out to be the lesser
of a bad fracture. We are blessed indeed that she has only a slightly bruised eyelid, a large bite on her tongue and a very smooshed up finger now in a cast. Not a single bit of blood or internal wounds anywhere.
Thank you all for your support and prayers. There is such power in prayer and strong healing thoughts, that's for sure.
We now have to keep her doing what she has been told to do and that means...No, she can't go to the beach and lie in a chair there for at least 3 weeks, no, she can't swim for at least that amount of time, no, she is not meant to even carry a plate never mind go into work for 3 weeks....no, no sky-diving for quite sometime, nor taking any yachts out sailing.....
Yes, she must lie and rest and more rest to heal properly.
We have set up a roster between family and friends to be there for her (3 meals a day)and stay over for the night as she simply refuses to stay with anyone, she is such a giver and does not like to put anyone out. (How blessed we are to have family here and all these wonderful friends that love her so much.)
She is a tough, go-getting lass which will deffinately help her to heal quickly.
She thanks you all for your support. We too really appreciate you all, thank you.
She has a heart that is in pieces though, poor lass....her 12 year relationship has ended in the last few weeks...he is having an awfully hard time adjusting to life ashore and wants to go back to living on the high seas! She wants to settle ashore! LOL (lots of wry laughter!!)...she has to stay ashore for awhile now!
in (my daily routine when possible). The warmth from you all is totally overwhelming.
Thank You.
The best news is this is a stable, compressed fracture and as such needs rest and more rest.
I was quite annoyed at the lax way the out patients treatment went on Saturday evening. They were sweet but extremely laid back about everything...I guess this started with the police.
The police apparently arrived on the scene quite soon afterwards and my daughter by then was still in the car with the airbags around her and smoke coming up from the dash board and one policeman went to the car and said "you should climb out the window. Can you?" and then on leaning into the window he asked rather incredulously,"Are you DRESSED?"
She was returning from a day out on a boat and was wearing a white bikini and wrap which of course was not visible with the airbags all blown up and the policeman was taken aback at her apparent nudity!
So, feeling very shy and she managed to reach for a t-shirt and slip it on while still sitting all squidged up in there...I asked her how and she says she absolutely has no idea how she did it. She had to climb out the car through the window, her back was in a lot of pain and she found bending her legs almost impossible, however, she climbed out.
The ambulance arrived and the policeman told them she was another 'beached tourist'!
Her sister arrived on the scene about then and all her papers were in order, she is a resident, her car papers were also in order...on island you need everything handy in this sort of case including your insurance otherwise they will not help you with alaccrity, and will do nothing at the hospital until all is paid up!!!(remember that travellers)
We got to the hospital as she was being taken from the ambulance.
Everything was very slowly done but done it was and she was told she could go as there was no fracture just a little bit of compression (which was actually told to us and an "impression").
Only when I collected the x-rays on Monday morning did we have doctors jumping around about the fracture and how it was a fracture we could not dismiss but needed a CT scan. The waiting game was played all day and finally only after 5 pm did the 2nd doctor tell me it was imperitive to have the scan.
THAT is when I started to really worry as the 2nd doctor was rather annoyed, to say the least, that she had been allowed home even.
Well, friends, it has turned out to be the lesser
of a bad fracture. We are blessed indeed that she has only a slightly bruised eyelid, a large bite on her tongue and a very smooshed up finger now in a cast. Not a single bit of blood or internal wounds anywhere.
Thank you all for your support and prayers. There is such power in prayer and strong healing thoughts, that's for sure.
We now have to keep her doing what she has been told to do and that means...No, she can't go to the beach and lie in a chair there for at least 3 weeks, no, she can't swim for at least that amount of time, no, she is not meant to even carry a plate never mind go into work for 3 weeks....no, no sky-diving for quite sometime, nor taking any yachts out sailing.....
Yes, she must lie and rest and more rest to heal properly.
We have set up a roster between family and friends to be there for her (3 meals a day)and stay over for the night as she simply refuses to stay with anyone, she is such a giver and does not like to put anyone out. (How blessed we are to have family here and all these wonderful friends that love her so much.)
She is a tough, go-getting lass which will deffinately help her to heal quickly.
She thanks you all for your support. We too really appreciate you all, thank you.
She has a heart that is in pieces though, poor lass....her 12 year relationship has ended in the last few weeks...he is having an awfully hard time adjusting to life ashore and wants to go back to living on the high seas! She wants to settle ashore! LOL (lots of wry laughter!!)...she has to stay ashore for awhile now!
