So, If you get squirmy, perhaps this post isn't for you.
My Labor Day weekend was no so great. Well...Friday was actually very nice.
Friday night, Joe, Jeff and I went out on the new Centurion and attempted to Wake Surf. Yep, you read that right. Wake Surf. Evidently its the new "thing". So, we thought we'd try it out. Joe and Jeff did great. I've never really gotten up on the Wakeboard, so I just practiced getting up on the board. It was easier than I thought, but still pretty hard to stay up. I got the hang of it tho.
Here are some pics:
Joe trying to Wake Surf
Jeff Trying to Wake Surf
Me Getting up on the Surf Board, trying not to fall! LOL
It was actually a really good time. We came back and spent the night at the Lake House (EVEN JEFF!!!) and all was very relaxing and nice. Saturday morning we drove the boat back to the marina. Nice ride into work, if I do say so myself! Joe left his truck parked down by the boat ramp so we could ride the truck back up to the showroom instead of walking. So when I got out of the boat, I had my purse, my overnight bag, my lunch bag and a trash bag from the lakehouse all in my arms. So instead of unloading it and then loading it all back in my arms, I just decided to hop on the tailgate back up to the marina. Well, I let it down and kinda just plopped up on there and didn't schooch all the way back like I should have. Jeff decided to walk up there. If you've never been to our Marina, we're talking about 100 yards to our showroom, through the parkinglot. So its not out on the main road, or going very far at all. Morningstar's parkinglot is a gravel lot. Our parking lot is a paved lot. So right as Joe got onto the paved part. He "goosed" the throttle. When I say this, is sounds aweful, but he literally tapped it. He didn't speed up, it was honestly an accident. At first, I didn't fall off. And if anyone has ever had anything like this happen, they can tell you, it almost seems in slow motion because you are thinking 1,000 different thoughts all really fast. At first, I was like....I got this! But then I fell on my but. And honestly, I didn't have my hands free to catch myself or hang onto the tailgate. I still may have fallen, it may have even been worse, who knows. But my hands were still holding onto the bags (I never let go of those bags tho! LOL)When my butt hit, I thought...ok....I can deal with this. I'll have a sore butt, but oh well. I got plenty of cushion! hah. Well in that next split second my head slammed back (since the truck was moving forward) and it hit the pavement. I got the worst tingly sensation over my whole body. I started screaming. I just knew I was paralyzed. I coudln't move anything at first. Jeff got to me first, then quickly Joe got there. Joe told me to stop screaming. Once I did, I realized I could move my arms and legs and knew that my head and neck was hurt. So I quickly told him to call someone please. So he did. He called 911 and then we just waited. Joe knew I was bleeding and I guess he didn't want me to know how much I was bleeding. We have a good customer, Mr Cory that keeps his boat at he marina. He walked up right after it happened and looked down and said...Man Joe, she's really bleeding alot! Haha I had to chuckle. I just thought it was funny. I'm sure other people it may have freaked out, but not me. As soo as the EMT got there, he checks my vitals, as best he could. My BP was good, my HR was good, pulse ox was good. Once the ambulance got there, a few minutes later, they put me in the neck brace and on the back board thingy. I just was so worried something was wrong, so I didn't wanna move my head or neck at all. They rode me to Halifax Regional Hospital in Roanoke Rapids, which took about 20 mins or so. We got there right before 10 AM sometime.
Once we got to the hospital, the nurses came in and took my stats again, then the doc was right in. We really didn't have to wait long at all. He ordered some xrays and a CT on my head. They came and did the xrays first of my lower back. That came back fine, and no fractures or anything in my tailbone. They then took me to the CT. At this point, I still had not sat up. I needed to sit up to get in the CT machine. Whoa, that was scary. At this point we still didn't know if everything was ok in my noggin. Well, then CT went fine and we went back to the ER room. They said it would take about 20 mintues for the test to come back. Well, the Doc didn't want to take off my hard colar until the results came back. So this whole time I'm TOTALLY uncomfortable! But rather be safe than sorry! So the doc comes in during that 20 mins and says....Just checkin on you! I havn't forgotten about you...still waiting on the results. I thought that was very nice he came in.
Finally they came in and said everything was great on the CT!!! YAY!!!! What a relief!!! So they they finally took off that stupid neck colar. Then they just had to clean up my wound on the back of my head and staples me up. When the nurse came in to clean me up....WOWZERS....she was like scrubbing in my wound. Hurt so bad. I started boo-hooing and she finally said...we're going to have to numb it up before we clean it up then! DUH! They gave me 2 percacets then waited about 15 minutes for them to kick in. Then the doc came in with a big-A** needles and numbed up my scalp. Evidently, the scalp is the hardest thing in the body to numb. And sure enough....lol....he had to numb it up more than he thought. He cleaned it up fine, put in staple number 1...then staple number 2....yep, more numbing...staple number 3...more numbing....then he finished it up.
Here is a pic of it before the staples:
Here is some pics of it after the staples!
And a beautiful picture of how my hairstyle was the rest of the day...lol
We walked out of the ER around 1 pm!!
and P.S. Percoset is not my friend :( made me terribly sick.
I keep the staples in for 10 days, then I'm good to go!
Thank you for all the prayers! God was definatly watching out for me and we're all very thankful to him that it wasn't any worse than it was! And I'm also thanking him for a hard head. lol
