Well most of you wouldn't know that I was involved in not 1 but 2 MVA's less than a yr apart. The first one was the major one. It was December 30th and my hubby and I were visiting friends in Sundridge, in fact we had gone to have lunch with them. It was the only time we were going to get together over the holidays. So about 12:30pm it started to rain and my husband didn't like the sound it was making on their patio door. He asked if they minded that we skip lunch and head for home as the kids (all 4) were at home alone.
We finished our coffee and were on the road home in less than 15 minutes. By the time we passed Bray Motors Greg couldn't get the freezing rain off the windshield. He pulled over cleaned it off then got back on the hwy again. We were following now 2 cars. I can remember the color of that car clearly as I hate red cars and it was red, but the car ahead of it, I have no idea. We were going super slow because of the conditions but then we damn near came to a stop as the car in the front slowed down even more. By this time we were at the passing lane just south of the High School. The red car pulled out to pass, he fished tailed a bit but made it okay. We were driving my Ford Mustang or I should say my hubby was. He looked at me and said do you think we can make it? I trust his driving over anyone's, so I replied if you think we can then go for it. As Julia Roberts said in the movie Pretty Woman, MISTAKE, BIG MISTAKE! From that moment on my life has forever changed thru no one's fault but that is life. One minute things are okay and the next your standing next to the devil saying "What the hell?"
Well we started off with fish tailing, then we did 3 360 degree turns, hit the south bound shoulder did one revolution and then went end over end twice and landed with the wheels facing the sky. Hubby undid his seat belt then undid mine. I fell face down and tried to move and couldn't. Greg jumped out of the car and every time I tried to move the pain in my lower back was like a hot knife but the worst was I couldn't move his legs.
The BEST DAMN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT in the world South River/Machar Fire Dept. arrived to me seemed like hours but was only 10 mins. It was determined that I had to be cut out of the car, so they put a collar on me and a hard hat with a light then to top it off the ambulance attendant climbed inside to keep me calm and put some blankets to try & keep me warm. This in itself was almost impossible as the the ditch was filled water, it was raining big time and the windows were open so needless to say I was in Mustang bath. It took almost an hour to get me out of the car and in the ambulance and on my way to the hospital.
I was seen to right away, but the worst thing was that I had to pee so bad that I thought I wouldn't make it. The nurse said because I couldn't move my leg that I wouldn't be able to pee and just to relax and she would put a catheter in. No one had said it yet but I knew they thought I had broke my back and wouldn't walk again. So I relaxed and pissed all over the bed & floor (lol). She was not impressed and yelled she didn't break her back and left. Eventually the doctor came in ordered a battery of x-rays and blood tests. After 6 hrs in the emerg they sent me home.
The next day I was back in Emerg because I couldn't breath and in total body pain. Turned out, I had a cracked 3 ribs, my sternum, clavicle, lower rt jaw (lost 5 teeth), dislocated shoulder (rt), bruised rt lung, heart and that all caused by the seat belt. One could thing though I wasn't dead, I also pulled all the ligaments & muscles from my spine but we didn't find that out for about 6 wks.
Then after months of physio therapy I went to Sudbury for an evaluation and had the second accident. I suffered whiplash and a concussion and within 7 days had 8 seizures my first since my oldest son was born. It was hell because I also aggravated my back injury. I don't know if I was more upset about seizures or back injury.
So since then I've been in constant pain, So after 23 yrs I've been sent to a Chronic Pain Clinic in Barrie. It usually takes about 2 and half years to get into this clinic but the last time I was in the hospital for the seizures I hurt my back again and the Dr that saw me there put it through as an extreme emergency.
So I go, expecting it to be just a quick consult with maybe a few x-rays and then the treatment starting on the next visit. Boy oh Boy was I wrong. So all who know me, know that I am no size 2 model, and those that don't know when I get depressed I eat, hell I eat shit I don't even like. SO this young Dr.(who is in perfect condition and is sooooo hunky but way to young for most of you out there including me) starts to tell me all about the clinic and says he has read my chart and this is what he wants to do for me. Now I should have clued in as soon as he said that he read my chart that all hell was going to break out and that read & glancing at were two different things.
This is what he told me to start off with: NO -- sugars
NO -- fruits they contain sugar
NO -- flours, rice or tapioca included
NO -- dairy, cheese, cream in coffee, yogurt nothing
NO -- tea or coffee
NO -- pork, red meat
NO -- desserts
BUT I CAN HAVE CHICKEN & FISH EVERY OTHER DAY AND ALL THE VEGGIES I CAN EAT.
Now he had a Tim Horton's coffee on his desk which I immediately looked at when he told me all this to which he quickly said "I don't suffer from chronic pain and I'm not terribly obese"
At this point I wanted to Bitch Slap him but I knew if I started I would be led away in handcuffs and charged with 2nd degree.........
He then tells me he wants me off my meds, and wants to add Lyrica for pain & inflamation control. Now this is where I KNEW FOR SURE HE HADN'T READ MY CHART. If any of you have seen the commercials on this shit then you would have got up and walked out. But not me, because my husband just drove 2 1/2 hrs to get me here and they did get me in quickly. So the side effects are as follows ; may & have caused severe depression (hell I'm depressed already), may increase thoughts of suicide (just got thru a spell of that), those with liver or seizure disorders shouldn't use this medicine. F U C K I'm epileptic and I have hemachromatosis. Then he said well do you want to start the injections in your back today, so like a fool I said yes. So 4 needles with freezing were put into either side of my spine. The right side which is where most of my pain is didn't hurt or bleed much but the left side hurt like a bitch and really bled. Now the ride home was okay because of course my back was frozen but the next day I was in sooooooooooo much pain it made me sick to my stomach but the next 3 days it felt really good. But now after a wk it is back to where it was before. I am going back for another consultation/injections and tell him that for one I can't afford to come down once a wk for a year and that the medication Lyrica needs to be looked into more closely by him because IF he had read my chart he would know I can't or shouldn't be taking it. So that's my take on the Pain Clinic. Everyone I had talked to that day had been going there for years, now if it was working then why were they all going for so long. Because like everything else these 7 doctors are running a business and it is a sweet deal. They all have full time positions in other offices and hospitals.
So I am a little leery of my next visit but I am not going to give up. I forgot to mention that he also wanted me to have yoga breathing, more physio, acupuncture, hypnosis and massage therapy. So if you have read thru this then let me know what you think,
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