A week ago today I went to my doctor’s clinic for my annual wellness exam. That gave me an opportunity to talk to my doctor about the injuries that I suffered last month, when my service dog, a young two-year-old that I had just been partnered with, pulled me down in my front yard and drug me two or three feet, because my dog was in pursuit of a cat. My dog and I are no longer partnered. The company that trained her and provided her to me free of charge decided that we were not a good team, and that I was at risk of further injury. And I agreed with that decision.
I did not see my doctor when I went in to get my rib cage x-rayed. I saw a nurse practitioner that works at his clinic. The x-ray showed that I had two fractured ribs on the left side of my rib cage. The injury has caused great soreness for me on the left side of my body. In fact, for several weeks, I slept in a reclining chair because it was less painful for me to get out of the reclining chair than to arise from my bed from a prone to a standing position. And the soreness was going away, so I knew that my ribs were getting better, and I told the doctor so. But I had a lingering question about my left shoulder.
My left shoulder had taken quite a bit of the brunt of the blow when I fell down. And my shoulder remained, has remained much more sore than my rib cage. And it seemed to me that my shoulder was not healing very rapidly. So I asked the doctor last week if the x-rays had also included my left shoulder. And he said no. And I told him that I was worried that I might have some dislocated bones or some small fractures where my arm bone hooks into my shoulder bone. So my doctor ordered two x-rays of my left shoulder and I was able to go in that same day and get the X-rays done. Two days later, I was contacted by my doctor’s clinic and the good news is that I have no fractures and no dislocations.