The Ups and Downs of Having a Broken Leg

I broke my leg playing Ultimate Frisbee (yes, a no contact sport) a couple weeks ago, and since then I have ridden in an ambulance, spent three days in a hospital, had surgery, been on morphine, and spent a lot of time laying or sitting with my leg up.

Saturday the 6th I left the hospital and came home. My living space has been the living room, and I’ve slept on the couch. Thankfully I’ve had means of keeping myself occupied, as we hooked up the computer in the living room. Plus I’ve done a good amount of reading. I’ve left the house only to go down to my grandparents (5 minutes away), and then once to visit the doctor.

There are some good things about having a broken leg. For one, I get to spend a lot of time just laying around (which is also one of the bad things). I can spend a lot of time reading, playing computer, being on the internet, watching movies, and just hanging out. Everybody else in the family has to wait on me most of the time, and I don’t have to do any work.

But the negatives make me wish that I didn’t have a broken leg. I have to lay around all the time with my leg propped up, which can get rather boring. I normally sleep on my stomach, but with my leg broken I have to sleep on my back. I have to wake up in the middle of the night to take my painkillers, and I’m pretty hampered in my movements. I’m a rather athletic sort of guy, and I enjoy playing baseball and doing all sorts of active things, but now I can’t do any of that for a while. Worst of all, its hard for me to play my instruments.

So I would rather have not broken my leg. But hey, at least I’ll have a good story to tell.

~ by Will Claybourne on September 17, 2008.