2 years and another surgery
Hello- I broke both my legs in a skiing accident on January 29, 2017. I was in a racing clinic and working on tight turns on an icey and steep slope. As I headed into a turn I lost focus, probably crossed my tips and crashed forward tumbling into the safety netting on the side of the slope. My skis released, but my boots were snagged in the net and my body continued to twist until I nearl twisted off my right foot. I sustained a pilon fracture and fib break on my right and a femur fracture in my left. I had initial fixation surgeries on both legs the night of the accident and a follow up on my right then days after the accident. My right ankle hurts so bad sometimes I think about amputation as a choice. My femur and left hip have continued to hurt me. After months of the doctors telling me they could find nothing wrong with my hip, I have recently been diagnosed with a 30 degree retroversion, nonunion, and malunion to my left femur. I have surgery scheduled in two weeks to hopefully fix all of that. Two years of scar tissue will complicate things. I have terrible anxiety. After my second surgery on my right foot, I lost blood flow to the foot in two arteries. I was in agony all night and the nurse refused to call a doctor. I didn’t sleep a wink. I think I may have cried for ten hours straight. I think the on call doctor was finally called at 3 or 4 in the morning to increase pain medicine. I have anxiety of being all alone again and not having any relief. That was one of the worst nights of my life. I am headed to HSS for this surgery. I was hoping to have a family member stay the night with me but I am told that you can’t do that unless you pay for the private room (which is out of my budget). Anyone have any similar fears heading into surgery?
