Gene Sz.
prepared for first day back
There is a story behind this. I'll try to be brief. Almost a year ago I was involved in a serious crash and was airlifted to the local trauma center with multiple injuries and a bleeding brain. I recall only fragments of that night, but I can tell you that you don't want to have to go to a trauma center! Not to say they don't do a great job, but it is, well... traumatic. They have military doctors and medics work the ER because there are a lot of gunshot wounds and crashes like mine, which I was told have a very similar mechanism of injury to explosion victims. The bottom line here is that there is a fast and furious pace to things and most of the typical items, say an IV needle are BIG! I had an IV the size of a knitting needle stuck in my femoral artery! Every inch of me was x-rayed at least 3 times. ( +2 CAT scans and I think 2 or 3 MRIs) I'm fairly certain that satellites can see me at night. Even so I had broken ribs that went unnoticed until I think 6-7 weeks later when I was having more x-rays done prior to surgery. Aside from damaging every major joint I had some brain trauma giving me constant migraines, memory loss, an inability to concentrate, read, or sometimes even understand what people were saying, dizziness, nystagmus (an involuntary eye twitch, like what causes a seriously intoxicated person to see the room spin) and the sensation of the ground falling away, out from under me. Recovery has been slow but fortunately steady. I was out from late July to I think December, then on light duty until May 16, 2011. Finally! I'm back.
prepared for first day back
There is a story behind this. I'll try to be brief. Almost a year ago I was involved in a serious crash and was airlifted to the local trauma center with multiple injuries and a bleeding brain. I recall only fragments of that night, but I can tell you that you don't want to have to go to a trauma center! Not to say they don't do a great job, but it is, well... traumatic. They have military doctors and medics work the ER because there are a lot of gunshot wounds and crashes like mine, which I was told have a very similar mechanism of injury to explosion victims. The bottom line here is that there is a fast and furious pace to things and most of the typical items, say an IV needle are BIG! I had an IV the size of a knitting needle stuck in my femoral artery! Every inch of me was x-rayed at least 3 times. ( +2 CAT scans and I think 2 or 3 MRIs) I'm fairly certain that satellites can see me at night. Even so I had broken ribs that went unnoticed until I think 6-7 weeks later when I was having more x-rays done prior to surgery. Aside from damaging every major joint I had some brain trauma giving me constant migraines, memory loss, an inability to concentrate, read, or sometimes even understand what people were saying, dizziness, nystagmus (an involuntary eye twitch, like what causes a seriously intoxicated person to see the room spin) and the sensation of the ground falling away, out from under me. Recovery has been slow but fortunately steady. I was out from late July to I think December, then on light duty until May 16, 2011. Finally! I'm back.