Corynn - posted on 10/20/2010 ( 2 moms have responded )
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In August of 2007, the summer after I graduated high school, my ex boyfriend, current fiancee and his ex girlfriend went four-wheeling through the woods on a stupidly rigged four wheeler. my ex's four wheeler's shifter broke, so they rigged it with a motorcycle shifter, and the throttle snapped so they tied it back together, so that when you turned the handlebars to the right the four wheeler would speed up... i had never driven a four wheeler before, and my exboyfriend was teaching me slowly to go down a straight dirt road next to a field, and a couple times of doing that i kind of felt like i was doing okay... well one day the four of us went riding through the woods, all four of us on it, and we were taking turns by the creek riding it up a hill and in the field, and when my turn came i got on it and my current fiancee's exgirlfriend told me there was a cliff at one end of the field and i had already started to go cuz i turned the handlebars to the right and it sped up and i got halfway up the steep incline and got really scared cuz i didn't know how to stop or anything cuz the brakes were also bad and almost nonexistent and i stopped and didnt lean forward to let the fourwheeler back itself down the hill, cuz i didn't know what i was doing and the fourwheeler tipped backward and i fell off of it and my back hit a rock sticking out of the ground and the four wheeler pretty much fell on top of me before my fiancee and exboyfriend rushed over to throw it off of me. i was taken by helicopter to a trauma unit at the hospital cuz i couldn't sit up or feel my back and had a hard time moving my toes, but i could feel everything. xrays didn't show anything and they were about to do a CTscan but i had to pee and didn't want to use a bedpan so i made myself get up and walk to the bathroom... they decided not to do the scan cuz i got up and walked... well 3 weeks later after having an extremely hard time moving around and being in excrusiating pain all the time, i was sent for a CTscan and found out i had fractured 3 of my vertabrae pretty bad... they didn't heal the right way... for the last 3 years, i have had trouble doing basically everything from sitting, standing, driving, lifting my 2 yr old "step"daughter (my fiancee's ex is her egg donor, we got together 2 months after she got pregnant cuz she was a cheater and didn't know who the father was and she abandoned her a year and a half ago). recently i started pain management. i had tried the injections of steroids and nothing helped, PT didn't help, nothing was helping... now i have to take 5 10mg lortabs a day, plus an anti-inflammatory for arthritis and the doctors think i have arthritis in my lower back and mostly in the vertabrae i fractured... one of my vertibrae is chipped and one if deformed and one feels like i have this huge bruise right on the bone... it sucks really bad and sometimes the pain meds don't even help... my back goes numb sometimes and gets really hot to the touch... it's so hard dealing with this pain and i feel like sometimes i am not giving my daughter everything that i want to cuz i can't sit on the floor too much and play with her or spin her around or throw her up in the air like she loves me doing to her, but after a couple times it just hurts really bad and i wake up in the morning barely being able to move... it seems like it's never going to get better and i know one day when i go into the doctor they are going to tell me i have degenerative disc/joint disease... it's nice having a group where i can get support and know that i am not alone
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