The accident

So it’s Sept 3rd. A seemingly normal day with an activity after work to get some exercise in. I’m sure everyone when growing up played dodgeball. So who wouldn’t want to go to a trampoline park and play dodgeball on trampolines? 

This wasn’t the first time I went, but it’s probably my last as this is where I would break my right (dominant) humerus. 

Funny enough I broke my humerus while in the air throwing the dodgeball as fast as I could. A clean break would change my life for the next couple months. I’ll never forget that snapping noise in my ear and the moment I stumbled into the corner of the play area grasping my arm. I yelled out to my friends and wife who was on the sidelines, “I broke my arm”! I had to yell it a couple times before people realized I wasn’t joking. 

The paramedics tried to give me hope in that they said it could be a dislocated elbow, although in my mind it was clearly a fracture. 

I’ll never forget the x-Ray of my arm where a distal fracture of my humerus was displayed. 

I’ve never been to the hospital, broken a bone, never been in so much pain and definitely never almost passed out.

It was nerve racking to wait for the doctor to see if I required surgery, luckily I just needed a brace.

I begged for pain killers before they set the bone. The nurse asked if I was ready…. Are you ever ready to experience someone moving your bones? 

This is where I almost passed out… The pain was horrid.

All I remember is that I started to get dizzy, the nurse walking me to the bed to lay down, and then all the sounds just got fuzzy and faint. It was hot, then cold. I started to shiver.

The pain was unbearable even with Tylenol 3s in my system, they had to take the cast x-rays with me confined to a bed. I couldn’t move. Every slight movement would send me into sharp and sudden pain. I didn’t think I would leave the hospital, but the nurse and my wife gave me the confidence to do so.

The car ride home was extremely painful. Every little bump, and turn would send me into agonizing pain. 

When we finally got home, my loving wife gave me a short sponge bath to wipe away the sweat. And I tried to sleep. This would be one of the longest nights of my life. I could not lay down, so i had to sleep sitting upright. Every movement caused pain. 

I was in shock. How could this have happened to me? 

Luckily I had the support of all my friends, and my in laws. I didn’t want to wake and worry my parents that night. 

Most importantly the support and love from my beautiful wife.

The doctor was right…. “The first week is going to suck”