What happens when you complain (or BLOG) about being bored? Well around here it's usually something happens to make you want to eat your words. Dad called me from his cell phone at midnight, and said he wanted to go to the hospital, cause he was in intense pain. Off we go to the ER. They did cat scans and xrays, and found several fractured ribs. I had checked him right after he fell, and he didn't have any pain taking a deep breath, and had no indications of hitting his ribs, but when we got to the ER, he had a large hematoma on his back ribcage, and one not quite as large on the front of his ribcage.
Long story short, they want him on pain medication for the first 5 days. If he has too much pain, he'll start shallow breathing, which can lead to pneumonia. So, it's pain pills at night, and light activity during the day. Not much activity with his upper body, but they want him to walk a lot under close supervision. Well, that should keep me from getting bored.
We're lucky nothing else was wrong. That's it for the time being. It's about 3:45 am, and I'm off to bed, again. (Stella is still in bed and snoring away....ahhhh the dog's life!)
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