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what did you do to your back? fell down the stairs? whats the diagnosis?

The interesting, sometimes extraordinary people I meet in this job. Just had a chat with a patient who, in his spare time, is a member of the 501st Storm Trooper Legion. He has three costumes, including Sand Trooper and Scout. Excellent.

are you in the same line of work as Denny then?

Green Gecko wrote:I broke my back...

... . Gecko, dude, what has been going on? This sounds majorly serious.

<]:^D wrote:are you in the same line of work as Denny then?

Im a porter at Cheltenham General.

<]:^D wrote:what did you do to your back? fell down the stairs? whats the diagnosis?

It's not that serious but the pain can be dreadful as I discovered last night as I have come off the strong stuff dihydrocodeine I think. It's fracture in upper endplate of T7 vertebra (thoracic spine so right in the middle). I didn't sleep last night at all.

Yes I got out of bed and slipped down the stairs, I immediately started sweating and dry heaving and wailing with shock and pins n needles, it was horrible. And then I was stuck in A&E corridors for 80% of the time which was probably worse. My ass still hurts for the 8hrs or so I was still strapped to the ambulance hard stretcher.
Tried to do some very light work last night as my online shop was backed up, so back to Netflix, video games and reading for god knows how long.

Besides a boxer's fracture I've never broken anything so it was quite a shock, actually the first doctor that saw me wasn't even convinced it was anything more than muscular because I was coping so well, my experience of pain including feeling cold for some reason has been really strange as I am just use to mental anguish not physical pain, besides some terrible muscle knots that don't help. And a a neck problem earlier in the year that was probably caused by the type of work.

I'm very lucky there's no nerve damage as paralysis would have ended me.

Christ, you have been through the mill, GG.

Fairly careless bed placement as well

I could have at least made it more than half way to the bathroom.

Hyperion wrote:Fairly careless bed placement as well

Get well soon though, Gecko. That sounds pretty horrendous but I'm glad you seem to be coping okay.

Hyperion wrote:Fairly careless bed placement as well

I'm so sorry Gecko that sounds awful. My friend broke his back by just landing funny in the direct center of it, so it's easily done.

Thanks guys, yeah that's pretty much what happened.

Hyperion wrote:Fairly careless bed placement as well

strawberry float I hope you get better soon Gecko.

Ad7 wrote:

Hyperion wrote:Fairly careless bed placement as well

That's what came to my mind too

Get well GG, sounds horrific.

Hyperion wrote:Fairly careless bed placement as well

strawberry float

That sucks Gecko, I hope you feel better soon.

The company I work for has expanded rapidly in the past 12 months so they have restructured things a bit, long story short Im now a manager. Im only in charge of 1 person right now (the team will grow) but its still a big change, interesting times ahead!

I appreciate the well wishes guys, I'm not used to this kind of impedance at all and I couldn't anticipate the psychological impact it would have either. I feel like my bloody mum (who's broken pretty much everything, she has osteoporosis and a car accident).

I have to sit a stupidly hard exam next week to do a senior role that I've already proven I can do, by actually doing the job.Meh.