Bad dog!

 I walk the front yard dogs every morning before school.  Now that it's lighter and warmer earlier, I walk the dogs a mile each.  This morning I started with Gretchen, then took Fritz.  Fritz is a known puller.

We were finishing the mile loop when we came across another dog walker, standing by the water tank that was leaking water.  She was stopped to call in the leak as I came around the corner with Fritz.  Fritz lunged at the other dog, taking me down and forcing me on my left side.  I landed on my left arm and it was hurting.

"Are you ok?" the woman asked. I wanted to scream  "what the fuck does it look like?!" as it took me a while to get up. My wrist was swollen and hurting.  It was not the woman's fault or even her dog's fault.  It was Fritz who did the lunging.

I made it back to the RV but was in too much pain to walk Gretel. It was 5:30am and I knew I had to check my arm out.  I drove to the ER where it took me under two hours to be seen.  Luckily there were no screaming kids and their irate mothers as they always expect to be seen first.  I saw 12 names on the roster, all listed by initials, and I was one of two falls.  One was a 52-yo possible overdose. Four patients had been there over ten hours. I feared I'd be kept waiting and in pain,

I got good treatment.  I was already in the system so I didn't get a bill when I left.  My BP was 154/88.  My wrist was Xrayed within the hour.  Diagnosis: distal radius fracture.  The ER doctor was a youngish athletic woman, too, Dr Autumn Ray, who looked liked a distance runner. All the doctor could do was set the bone for me.  She recommended I see a specialist in Tucson as all she could do was set the fracture.

I was discharged with one Percocet and made it to the high school just before second hour. My supervisor didn't even know I wasn't in yet (she hadn't seen my texts or heard my voice mail) but luckily the work load was easy today.

I got the expected "What happened to your arm?" response.  My answer:  "I got in a fight with my dog.  You should see my dog!"

My arm was throbbing by the time I left the school since I couldn't take my Percocet until I got home, but then I couldn't open the child-proof container with one arm.  My arm throbbed in pain all night.  

At least this accident happened at the end of the school year, but it looks like I'll be driving to Tucson for further treatment.  Hopefully TriCare won't give me any issues.