broken-gurl's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- you're skin, oh yeah you're skin and bones So I went swimming today at Commonwealth pool. Thought it would be a fun way to pass the afternoon. HAH. I was playing around on this long tube-like thing and I rolled off it backwards in the shallow end and smashed my head into the bottom really hard. I came up holding my head and in serious pain & a lifeguard came over and asked if I was okay, at which time I said no, I had hit my head. She jumped into the pool & immediately supported my head with her hands and called for help. Some other lifeguards brought over a spine board and they turned me around in the pool and put me on it and strapped me down so my head couldn't move and called the paramedics. While we were waiting they asked me all sorts of questions and did my vital signs about a million times. So the paramedics show up and decide to take me to hospital in the ambulance. Great, just wonderful. They put me on the stretcher and take me away. I had this horrible collar thing around my neck to keep it from moving that hurt so much. We got to the hospital & it took forever waiting, as usual. Finally I got in and a nurse asked me more questions, did my vital signs again, and sent a doctor in. The doctor had me go to x-ray. After forever waiting in pain (despite being totally doped up on T3's) the doctor comes back and says that the x-ray looks fine and that... guess what... I've SPRAINED MY NECK. And probably have a concussion to top that. Go me. I'm never going swimming again. I'm in so much pain right now, I can't move my neck & my head is throbbing. I just want it to stop. Bleh. So learn a lesson from me. It's fun to play around like a little kid in the shallow pool but for god's sake BE CAREFUL. -xxx- 6:03 p.m. - 2004-05-16 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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