My Purple Cast with "Windows"

Well you can not see it in the pictures but there are pieces cut out under the ace bandage that we are suppose to take off once a week and check what the incisions look like....

First Pictures of my Incisions

The incisions are not looking to good to me :( but they say we will watch them, as they will be putting a cast with "windows" .... sooo we will see.... they do not want to start antibiotics it is a watch a wait kinda situation.....

10 days afterward the bruises on my stomach and arm

 The top picture is my stomach where the seat belt got me.

The bottom pic is my arm, I assume it hit the stick shift or something 

More Pics of my Truck

The First View of My Truck

At the Hospital...then to another

So I arrive at the hospital and they check me out, get x-rays, fill me full of pain meds, etc.

Then we get x-ray results back and find that my ankle is dislocated, my Talus is shattered, and my 5th metatarsal is broken. Greeeeeat~!!!! So the next plan of action is for them to sedate me and re-locate my ankle back into place. So we sign all the paperwork and all that good stuff and they sedate me and attempt to put my ankle back in place. I am starting to come out of sedation and they are still pulling on my foot and ankle and I am screaming and they tell me just one more minute..awwww NOOOOOOOO you are killing me!!!! They eventually stopped after what felt like a lifetime and then said Welllll we can't get it back into place.... greeeat so all that pain and pulling i felt was for NOTHING????????

So I lay around for what felt like days on end and wait and wait and wait some more when finally they come in and have decided that they are going to send me down the hill to another hospital. Soooooo I with my still dislocated ankle wrapped in cardboard I get to make a 45 minute ambulance ride down the hill. Every bump, turn, and little movement was extremely painful as my foot was still not where it belonged and was laying the wrong way. There just was not enough pain medication in the world to alleviate my pain.

After, arriving at the second hospital as they bump me and my ankle along again while being unloaded and wheeled into the ER we go thru same 500 thousand questions of what happened, are you in pain (YEEEESSSS I AM IN PAIN LOOK AT MY FLIPPIN FOOT THAT IS FACING THE WRONG FLIPPING DIRECTION), on a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your pain?? (ITS A FREAKING 10 YOU IDIOTS MY FOOT IS NOT WHERE IT IS SUPPOSE TO BE)and many more questions that I don't recall at this time.

Soooo the Dr's there say ohhhh we are gonna sedate you and put your ankle back in place, I tell them been there tried that and it didn't work. They say ohhhh but that was at the "Other" hospital we are going to do it here we have "better" doctors and an Ortho. Soooo here we go again but this time I beg them please don't allow me to wake up before you are done pulling on my ankle cause that hurt and I can't do that again, they promised that would not happen! Soooo they were right I did not wake up in the middle but I did wake up to the news of ohhh we could NOT put your ankle back in place so we are going to have to wait and do that too surgically at the same time they fix the broken bones. Soooo still my ankle is dislocated and they are now working on getting me admitted for surgery.

I sat until Monday afternoon when they finally took me in for surgery and things are still hurting but better now that things are back where they should be. 

The Nightmare Begins

Ohhhh what a weekend... It's amazing how in the blink of an eye your life can come literally to a screeching halt and be turned upside down. I was driving home from a family baby shower it was around 9:45pm and I was about a mile from home when all of a sudden I see the car that was coming towards me swerve into my lane... no drift, no correction, he just came straight AT ME and hit us head on..... I slammed on my breaks which slowed us down a bit but I am not sure how fast we were going at the time of impact but it was a pretty decent speed being as we started at approx 50MPH. There was a witness to the accident who was driving behind me who was first on the scene and called 911. She came to my truck and I was trying to locate my kids and be sure they were ok... I was calling to them and first my son started crying but answered me and I asked him are you ok?? Are you ok? I was trying not to panic or sound panicked but I was very scared he finally answered me he was ok... I called for my daughter she too was crying but answered me so I knew they were both alive at that point so I started asking them are you sure you are ok, where do you hurt, does anything hurt??? They both responded no mommy I'm ok I don't hurt anywhere. I asked are you sure.. is your head is ok? Your body feels ok? Your neck feels ok??? Your arms and legs feel ok?? They both answered yes mom its ok. They both kept asking what happened mommy, what happened? So then I was able to stop for a moment and my next panic as someone flew by the accident was that someone else was going to hit us again as we were sitting on a VERY dark road that made us difficult to see. Thankfully soon after some people got out there with flash lights and started to direct traffic and alerting people that our cars where there in the middle of the road in a mangled mess. This whole time as I sat there I was looking for my cell phone I could not find my phone I was in a panic again I NEEDED to call my boyfriend to let him know what had happened and to come quickly to come get me.. At that point someone came up to the window and started talking to me and asking how we were and how the kids were and I calmed down a bit and realized my leg was hurting and It dawned on me to turn on the interior light so I could see my kids were ok and relax myself a bit more.... So it was at that point I turned the light on and turned to look at my kids with much relief they both looked frightened but ok. Next, I looked down at my leg to see if there was blood cuz it was hurting really bad and then I noticed my foot was not sitting in the right position and I said Oh crap my leg is broken. I then went into panic again and desperately searched for my cell phone again to no avail. I finally started yelling out my window someone PLEEEEESE can I use your cell phone to call me family!!! Then a woman came and handed me her phone. I could not remember my Boyfriends phone number off hand so I called my mom who's number I knew even while freaking out and asked her to call him since he was only a few miles away. My mom of course panicked and asked how are the kids and I said fine, then she asked how are you and I said fine except my leg is broken and then my mom freaked out and I had to calm her and tell her please just call my man and get him here ASAP!!!! So she did and then called me back on that persons cell phone to let me know he was on his way....whewwww I felt a bit of relief knowing someone was on the way.

In the meantime the paramedic then came and I talked to them and told them my leg was broken and they looked down at my leg and said awwww ok.... so one fireman tried to open my drivers side door and it didn't open so they called for extrication then another came along grabbed the door and pulled with all his might and open came the door... The paramedic then got me out and onto a gurney and man was that PAINFUL!!!! Then once in the ambulance as we sat there and they cut my pants off and cut my shoe off it was much more obvious there were some NIIIICE issues with my leg. My leg was facing up and my foot was not... it was facing sideways... very creepy to look at really.

My boyfriend then showed up and both the kids were released to his custody after they were checked out and then I was off to the hospital........