as accident prone as always...

[Jen]

... i dislocated my hip getting out the shower. thinking nothing of it i popped it back in and now i am on crutches for the forseeable future. excellent. :/

[fimacg]

bloomin eck Jen I don't know how you manage to stay alive...

Hope you feel better soon though.

[spotti]

How on earth did you manage that?!

[mossh]

Yeouch!!
How on earth do you do it?! I thought I was bad but I take my hat off to you Jen!
Hope you recover quickly xxx

[fleabitten]

yeah i was just going to say that spotti lol!!

[Jen]

well it has been dodgy for a few years - achey, clicky when i walk etc. someone told me that it could be slightly rotated but i thought nothing of it. the past couple of weeks it has been increasingly bad andi could feel it constatnly moving wrong when i walked and then last night i got out of the shower andf as i reached for a towel it full on popped otu. i put it back in place and although very painful and very inconvenient i am just getting on with it, however it is a lot easier to walk after the college wardens gave me some crutches but i already have blisters on my hand and it has been a day!!!!!

i think for me it is going to be a life of cotton wool :/

[Jen]

i went to the doctors about it yesterday and he pulled it, prodded it, and poked it before declaring there was nothing wrong with it, to ditch the crutches and walk normally - one problem, it hurts to put weight on that hip! so he reluctantly sent me for x rays at bev minor injuries unit.

the pulled prodded and poked and said that something had definately happened and it was rather unusual, took x rays and referred me to the fracture clinic at hull royal to get a second opinion.

at the fracture clinic today, the doctor looked at the x rays again, explained everything he could see to mum and me and then asked if there was a history of hypermobility in the family which there is on my dads side. i have hypermobility in my hips, knees, wrists, thumbs, fingers, elbows and shoulders (that he could find today) and that is what caused my hip to appear to pop out of place, he has another theory that i have possibly damaged the fascia lata (tendon running on the outside of the bit of hip that sticks out - hard to explain without a picture) if my hip has moved into a position that it shouldnt have.

upshot is, im not to put any weight on it if at all possible for three weeks to allow it to heal to the best of its ability, i am to have a CT scan to check that there is no chips of bone in the joint if my hip did dislocate and im not allowed to work for three weeks, after this time i will have another appointment with him to check that everything is going ok and then we will take it from there.

this hypermobility business does however explain why i am so bendy and why my hips have seemed dodgy for a few years, apparently it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

(oh and the best bit is my cousin has "sever" hypermobility but really puts it on that its really bad and cant do this and cant do that yet she can walk to and from town as well as around town (about 7 or 8 miles in total) whereas we didnt know that i had it and om on crutches for a heck of a long time and can find it hard walking from one end of the village to the other - not that im getting one over on her or anything )

[Blonde Donkey]

Ah Jen you are possibly the most accident prone person I have ever met . At least you have an explanation for your hip popping out like that. I suggest cotton wool and bubble wrap may be the way forwards for sometime:P. I would also worry about your first doctors attitude, one of my doctors missed some serious signs of my chest infection ending me up in hospital, I would have a word with the surgery because that seems a bit out of order and it is hoped that he would have referred you straight away.