This past week I did a crazy thing. I dislocated a rib! I don’t really know how I did it. It could have been at work or taking photos or just getting up to quickly from my desk. Anyway…it hurt like no pain I have ever experienced! The pain wasn’t to bad last week on Wed when I am pretty sure I pulled it out of place. Then towards Friday it started to get worse.
Friday night I was out with Amanda and one of her friends at a local university. They were having a concert for their college days. While I was there it just seemed to get worse and worse till I couldn’t hardly walk back to the car. Me being a guy and all, I thought I would be macho and not complain much. well, that didn’t get me anywhere.
Saturday and Sunday I spent pretty much in bed flat out on my back.
Sunday night I broke. With all the pain and discomfort and the thought of being like this for a while, I couldn’t hardly sleep.
Monday, I got up and actually didn’t feel to bad. Looking back I can completely understand why I would go through spurts of horrible pain and then times where I could manage. It was because my rib was moving in and out of its socket on my spine! Crazy!
Long story…just a bit longer – yesterday I got in to see the chiropractor and stupid me, drove my self. Almost didn’t make it from the car to the door, but managed. got in and described what horrible pain I was in. The Doc proceeded to tell me I had a dislocated rib and that it was easy for him to fix, and very painful for me. DUH!
Anyway…after a few X-rays to make sure it wasn’t broken, he set it back into place and it has slowly been getting better since. I leave in an hour to go see him again and find out what my long term process of recovery will be.
I hope to be back to normal soon.
Thanks to all who have prayed and are praying for my quick recovery! And if you need a good
chiropractor…give me a call!
- Luke
P.S. all this talk about ribs is making me hungry! 