Post by DArtagnan on Sept 29, 2003 15:18:56 GMT -5
Thought I'd inform you of this accident that befell me.
Last Friday afternoon, playing soccer at the Rec Center, I was in a pretty harsh collision, my forehead got hit by the back of the head of a guy who was jumping backwards, and this resulted in my skull being fractured. I was almost immediately taken to Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, where I stayed hospitalized throughout the weekend, and just got released a little bit ago today. The injury itself was pretty bad, as both of my frontal sinus bones broke and collapsed in (my forehead had a huge dent in it, it looked like a wrecked car), but fortunately the posterior part of these bones held in place, so that there was no damage to the brain. I underwent an operation Saturday morning. Because they couldn’t just open up the forehead and work there, as that would leave a permanent mark across my forehead, what the doctor did was cut a rim of my hair and make an incision at the top of my head. Then he pulled down and inserted some metal plates in the area just above my eyebrows. These metal plates will dissolve in six months, and by then the bones will have healed.
Right now I’m back home and, like I said, I got back from the hospital just a little while ago. My face is swollen, but the doctor says this is normal after a surgery of this sort. And the top of my head is being held together by stitches and staples, so I will probably be wearing a hat of some sort to class for the next few weeks or months. At the moment I am feeling okay physically, but I am still very tense and shocked and disoriented that all this happened.
Last Friday afternoon, playing soccer at the Rec Center, I was in a pretty harsh collision, my forehead got hit by the back of the head of a guy who was jumping backwards, and this resulted in my skull being fractured. I was almost immediately taken to Memorial Hospital Emergency Room, where I stayed hospitalized throughout the weekend, and just got released a little bit ago today. The injury itself was pretty bad, as both of my frontal sinus bones broke and collapsed in (my forehead had a huge dent in it, it looked like a wrecked car), but fortunately the posterior part of these bones held in place, so that there was no damage to the brain. I underwent an operation Saturday morning. Because they couldn’t just open up the forehead and work there, as that would leave a permanent mark across my forehead, what the doctor did was cut a rim of my hair and make an incision at the top of my head. Then he pulled down and inserted some metal plates in the area just above my eyebrows. These metal plates will dissolve in six months, and by then the bones will have healed.
Right now I’m back home and, like I said, I got back from the hospital just a little while ago. My face is swollen, but the doctor says this is normal after a surgery of this sort. And the top of my head is being held together by stitches and staples, so I will probably be wearing a hat of some sort to class for the next few weeks or months. At the moment I am feeling okay physically, but I am still very tense and shocked and disoriented that all this happened.
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