The main reason I am writing this blog is the excess free time I have now, I have a dislocated elbow and am going to be sidelined for a while. So how did I dislocate my elbow? I am glad you asked...........
It was Monday, February 2nd, my birthday to be exact. I had just had an awesome training session and was just finishing up when Charlie a brown belt and a good friend of mine wanted to show me some corrections on technique he saw me make. It was mainly dealing with when you have your legs wrapped up in a triangle but your opponent is posturing up. So he put on a loose triangle and I postured up, we were not at all live rolling. So as I postured up I got off balance and me being a big fella I was going to fall over and Charlie was coming with me. By mistake and not even realizing I based out my right hand. I based out with my elbow pointing in. We toppled over and before I hit the mat I heard the POP POP POP of my arm followed by me screaming. It was a total accident.
I began flopping around like a fish out of water screaming in pain, Luckily Danny DVD (yes everyone usually has a nick name) Jumped on top of me and held me down till the ambulance came. Upon the ambulance arriving I was a bit more calmed down, I began to tell the EMT's that there was no way in hell they were going to cut my favorite gi off of me. I had just picked it up that day having had my fightworks podcast patch put on it. I was planning to enter the fightworks gi patch contest. Oh well...There is always the next patch contest right Caleb? So after pleading and I am pretty sure some yelling at the EMT's they pulled off my gi and it was saved. It hurt like hell but it was worth it.
From there I was taken to the hospital where I lay in a bed for about a half hour waiting for the doctor to arrive, When he came in he had mercy on me, He gave me 10 milligrams of Morphine which sent me into LA LA LAND....From there the rest is a bit blurry but I have pieced it together, I had Xrays taken, and the Orthopedist decided to sedate me and place my forearm back in socket.
What a normal Elbow should look like
What mine looked like
I was put in a splint given a sling, a script for some painkillers and sent on my way. I was also given a referal to a seperate orthopedist to follow up with. I saw him 2 days later his name is Dr. Greene and he has what can only be described as sideburns cooler than Fonzi. He told me to keep my arm in the splint for 3 weeks at the end of the 3 weeks I will be getting a special brace that will limit my range of motion on my elbow which will allow me to rehab my elbow.
I am going to become part man, part machine:
I was lucky, No broken bones, No fractures and so far No major ligament damage. All in all I was lucky....
But..........
Now I am out of work and BORED OUT OF MY MIND... but more on that later.
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