Impaled by chair leg
Hi, I’m really new to this. I’ve been looking for a forum pretty much since my injury. A little info on my injury. I was cleaning the lounge roof and was standing on a chair and slipped and overturned the chair and I feel and impaled my right armpit and pec/chest on the chair leg. I have had broken bones and operations before, so I honestly expected my recovery to be relatively quick. Report from the hospital said that they had had to tie up quite a few vines, removed a large hematoma and put in about 30 stitches. I’m now seven weeks post injury/surgery and the pain is terrible, I’ve got nerve damage all down my arm and I can barely do anything for myself. I think the hardest thing for me to come to terms with, is the fact that I have always been a physically strong female, has always had physical jobs and played sport. That I won’t ever be like that again, and now I don’t know what I’m going to do with my life or career anymore. The isolation is also not nice. As someone who has always suffered from depression, this recovery is really hard. I am a solo mum, I don’t really have many friends and my family lives in another country. I suppose I just wanted to hear from other people and what there experiences were or are. I feel like it’s never going to end sometimes