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Bruised ribs

pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2014 in General Discussion
Friday I was cleaning up in the shop when I began to cough.Coughed so hard I passed out and came to layin on the ground .Hit my head ,blood everywhere and shoulder and back and chest hurting like hades.Cleaned up and decided I would live .Shoulder and chest got worse with time instead of better. Had wife carry me to hospital er last nite Got there at about 9:30 and did not leave until after 6 this morning. Nothing broken but plenty bent and bruised .A big shot of morphine barely touched the pain Gonna be a long next few weeks On top of this I have not had a cigarette in over 48 hours Coughing feels like someone stabbing me with a knife Thank you lord for painpills!
cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ribs are hard to heal... Since you can't stop breathing.
    When I bruised my ribs back in October... It took near on three months plus to get rid of the pain.
    Sleeping was rough because I couldn't sleep but in one position.

    Here's hoping you heal up quicker than I did... [;)]
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,020 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just don't hang around with anyone who tells funny jokes[}:)]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by asop
    Just don't hang around with anyone who tells funny jokes[}:)]
    I'll agree with THAT... Along with breathing... Laughing hurt like hell !!!

    I had to stay off the forums for a while...
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    I think bruised is worse than a break. I thought I was never gonna heal.
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  • NeoBlackdogNeoBlackdog Member Posts: 17,279 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd be less worried about the bruised ribs than about why the heck you were coughing so hard that you passed out! That ain't natural![;)]
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I think the only thing worse than sore ribs is sore teeth. Both have a pain that hurts no matter how you move...[:(]
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  • asphalt cowboyasphalt cowboy Member Posts: 8,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    BTDT, twice. And yes, it hurts like hell. Only pain I've known worse was a lower back spasm that dropped me like a sack of rocks.

    The first was over twenty years ago and you wouldn't believe me if I told ya how it happened. The visible bruise ran the gamete from black and blue to green, red and purple and was an oblong band that ran from my sternum half way around to my spine. Had four ribs separated with three of those separated from my sternum.

    The second I had fallen at work and the main reason I went to the ER was concern of having bruised my heart. Doc looked at me like I'd morphed into a space alien when I told her it was gonna hurt no matter where I was at so I game to go back to work.
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  • skicatskicat Member Posts: 14,431 ✭
    edited November -1
    The good news , if you are so inclined, is that the hardest 2 days of non-smoking are behind you.[:)]
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would think this would be a great time to seriously consider quitting smoking. That may have something to do with your coughing problem.
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