Because I was having such a good week already.
Today I tripped on something and fell into some rocks (large gravel, ~baseball sized), knee first. It hurt a lot. More than it should to just skin your knee. Lucky for me atomic_umber was there to strongly suggest going to the doctor. After the drive up to Los Alamos (she drove, I clutched some ice to my knee in pain), I believed her.
A few xrays and whatnot later, it turns out I fractured my right kneecap. This would explain the extra pain and inability to put weight on it. They gave me a Lortab to help with the pain, wrapped it, sold me some crutches and told me to go talk to a doctor on Monday (in the morning). Argh.
Odds are good it'll go like this: get a knee immobilizer, hobble around for 6-8 weeks, physical therapy after that to get it back in shape. If I'm really unlucky, instead they open my knee up and wire it back together, then all that stuff. Yay?
On the upside, I suspect that I'll get some more stuff done on the clan machine, what with all the time I'll have off of work :) (they told me I can't go in this week, narcotics and such). Yay?
A few xrays and whatnot later, it turns out I fractured my right kneecap. This would explain the extra pain and inability to put weight on it. They gave me a Lortab to help with the pain, wrapped it, sold me some crutches and told me to go talk to a doctor on Monday (in the morning). Argh.
Odds are good it'll go like this: get a knee immobilizer, hobble around for 6-8 weeks, physical therapy after that to get it back in shape. If I'm really unlucky, instead they open my knee up and wire it back together, then all that stuff. Yay?
On the upside, I suspect that I'll get some more stuff done on the clan machine, what with all the time I'll have off of work :) (they told me I can't go in this week, narcotics and such). Yay?