smartypants
December 19th, 2006, 09:55 AM
So this is a combination friend/nurses office post.. i thought this was the most appropriate place.
I got home from work last night, and my mom told me to take off my coat and sit down. So i did... She looked at me and told me there had been an accident involving my best friend.
She's in Kamloops BC with her sister and they were rock climbing and she fell. She fell and pretty much shattered her L1 vertebrae and has no feeling in her legs. She can move her right upper leg.. arund her thigh, but she can't move her left leg pretty much at all... and she CAN'T move her ankles or feet. She has to get surgery sometime this week.. the hospital she's in right now doesn't have the pins and stuff they need to do it so they have to wait for those to get in.
I talked to her last night... she had a sense of humour but that's cause of the morphine. I didn't sleep at all last night, well maybe for like 2 hours but not anything work talkin about.
Her doctors are preparing her for the worse.. which would be paralyzation. She's so full of life, and there's so much she wants to do... she has this eeurope trip planned for next summer... everything's booked she was so excited... she's in school to be a teacher..a math teacher.. why math i've never understood but she's an odd one like that...
Her parents are flying out this morning with all their x-mas presents and stuff... she's going to be in the hospital for at least 10 days and then they have to see how it goes.
I just.. it's so hard cause she's so far away and there's nothing i can do.. last night i was shakin.. almost uncontrolably, and i feel sick to my stomach. I want to be with her so bad. Her family is going to call me after her surgery so we know how it's going.
SHe only fell 6 feet! but she landed flat on her back on some rocks i think is what she told me. This is going to be a crappy next while.. especially untill i know how surgery went.
*Sigh* you guys are good for support so i just wanted to tell someone.
-Thanks for anything
-Cate
I got home from work last night, and my mom told me to take off my coat and sit down. So i did... She looked at me and told me there had been an accident involving my best friend.
She's in Kamloops BC with her sister and they were rock climbing and she fell. She fell and pretty much shattered her L1 vertebrae and has no feeling in her legs. She can move her right upper leg.. arund her thigh, but she can't move her left leg pretty much at all... and she CAN'T move her ankles or feet. She has to get surgery sometime this week.. the hospital she's in right now doesn't have the pins and stuff they need to do it so they have to wait for those to get in.
I talked to her last night... she had a sense of humour but that's cause of the morphine. I didn't sleep at all last night, well maybe for like 2 hours but not anything work talkin about.
Her doctors are preparing her for the worse.. which would be paralyzation. She's so full of life, and there's so much she wants to do... she has this eeurope trip planned for next summer... everything's booked she was so excited... she's in school to be a teacher..a math teacher.. why math i've never understood but she's an odd one like that...
Her parents are flying out this morning with all their x-mas presents and stuff... she's going to be in the hospital for at least 10 days and then they have to see how it goes.
I just.. it's so hard cause she's so far away and there's nothing i can do.. last night i was shakin.. almost uncontrolably, and i feel sick to my stomach. I want to be with her so bad. Her family is going to call me after her surgery so we know how it's going.
SHe only fell 6 feet! but she landed flat on her back on some rocks i think is what she told me. This is going to be a crappy next while.. especially untill i know how surgery went.
*Sigh* you guys are good for support so i just wanted to tell someone.
-Thanks for anything
-Cate