Luckily I stay pretty straight on the stuff. Mentally this much vicodine hits me like one or two beers. The morphine drip in the hospital was awful. Given the choice I should have just been sent home on vics. Then I'd look at the clock and damn I'd only been asleep for ten minutes but it felt like hours.
Mom flies to Chino to play nurse for a few weeks.
Here she is wheeling me out of the hospital. Flowers courtesy of Tammy Hayden. CT scans reveal lotsa pieces. There are supposed to be only two blobs there, ulna on left and radius on right. Radius is smashed.