Well....Here how it all started. My lovely husband likes to go donate plasma, so he has also talked me into doing it, so I've been going for the last few months also. Well it's always been fine so I didn't think differently this time. Wednesday I left the Plasma Center at 1 and was going to meet Jon at 2 for his lunch break, so I had an hour to kill. And since I do love my treats I decided that a nice little snow cone sounded great. So I went to the BEST snow cone place in Providence by Firehouse to get my treat. I walked up to the shack, ordered my Peaches and Cream and then I suddenly started to get really hot. Then things were getting a little blurry and my ears starting itching/tingling. I have passed out before so I knew it was coming. So the girl handed me the snowcone and I paid her. Well thats all i remember. Next thing I know I felt my face smack the ground and the poor little snow cone girl is running at me. Yep, thats right I freaking passed out in the parking lot. I was at least 20-30 feet away from the shack and i don't remember getting there. Well the girl is yelling at me asking if I need help, i just kept saying "No, No, "I'm ok i think i just need some water" I got up and kinda crawled my way over to the shade. Then the girl said she was calling 911 because I was bleeding all over the place. I had no idea. I told her I DID NOT want and ambulance. So I just sat there and gave her Jon's number to have the dispatcher call him. Shortly after this a cop pulled up and before he even started talking to me he decided I needed an ambulance. Well as im sitting there bleeding all over this girls water bottle, talking to the cop, I finally realized that i knocked my tooth out and another one was cracked and about to pop off. I guess I must have flipped out cause I was trying to get up to find my dang tooth and the cop just kept yelling at me not to move. So he went over and found my tooth, and I just sat there in shock that all this was really happening.
So the fire truck and ambulance come.
(why they need to send a fire truck, i don't know, but whatever) They strapped a neck brace on me
(which are horribly unfortable, by the way) and put me on the back board. And my blood pressure had dropped so low that they couldn't even hear a pulse on my left wrist. So they were all getting worried but I was talking the whole time, so obvisiously I was fine, but no one would listen to me. Then off the hospital we go, by this time Jon had showed up, and since I am my fathers daughter I wanted a picture right in the middle of all this. Everyone was laughing at me but I didn't care.
(no im not crying or anything i was just trying to get my arms out of the way as they strapped me in)
So off to the hospital we go, my mom and Jon got to the hospital before I did. They took me in, two nurses ripped my pants and bra off( under my clothes i might add, they obvisiously had had some practice at this). Then I went to have some X-rays of my neck, that took forever. So after being the ER for a good 2 or so hours now, they stiched my lip up that had been cut up pretty bad by my broken tooth, got me some pain pills, and sent me to the dentist.
So the dentist basically said that the two broken teeth can't be saved so I am going to have to have root canal's on both of them. Then after poking and proding around and some more X-rays he said that my jaw was broken. BROKEN??? Are you kidding me??? All i could think was that they were going to wire my mouth shut and my life would pretty much be over. So he made a fake tooth and glued my front 4 teeth together to stabilize them until my jaw healed. He said that he can't do anything to fix these teeth until my jaw is healed because I'm not supposed to open my mouth that wide. Great, just Great. These are my four front teeth people!!!!
So this morning I had an appointment with an oral surgeon. He said that since my jaw is not completly broken and its not displacing my bite or teeth, that I can just be and a soft food/liquid diet for 6-8 weeks hope that that will stabilize it and let it heal itself. So good bye to my hamburgers, steak, corn on the cob, chips and basically everything i eat. And bring on the Jell-0, pudding, soup, noodles, and yogurt. It was funny because before the dentist told me what I could eat and he said that he was putting me and the "Body by Jeremy" diet because his first name is Jeremy. Which, if you look on the bright side, mean that I have he secret weapon the win the Biggest Loser group that Heidi started. HAHA Suckers!!!
Well all in all im doing fine. just been a little achey all day but im lucky that I was at the snow cone shack when it happened and not driving home and passed out.
Oh and the thing i feel the worst about is how Jon found out. He was on a run for work delivering parts to other stores and got a call from a number that he didn't recognize. So when he listened to the message it said " This is 911 Dispatch calling about your wife, she's been injured, has a head injury and is bleeding and being taken in the ambulance". Poor kid that would have scared the crap out of me.
This picture does not even come close to how swollen my lip is today, but the redness on my cheek has pretty much all gone. And this doesn't show my missing tooth. I wish i would have got a picture of that.
