My Broken Elbow

This last monday while playing softball on the same field where Britney hurt her shin, I broke my elbow. It started out as a normal game. We were doing pretty good. About the 4 inning I dove for a ball and when I planted my elbow to break the fall it felt like I kind of tweeked it. Then two innings later I dove going the other direction and planted the elbow the same way. When my hand made contact with the ground my elbow immediately popped. I knew it wasn't good, but being competitive I finished out the play. I have to say that both times I was able to make the play and get the outs. Anyway I went to the dugout in some pretty significant pain. I didn't want to give up so I kept playing and it hurt when I tried to throw. I pulled the last straw when I went up to bat. I got on base with a very weak hit and felt like my arm was going to fall off. When I got home I put some ice on my arm and took some Ibuprofen. By the end of the night I was able to sleep and woke up without much pain. The only problem was that my elbow was about twice the size of the other one. I decided that I should get it checked out. I made an appointment to go to the chiropractor down in Soda wednesday.

He was surprised to see my elbow so swollen and did some work on it to get some swelling out. He suspected that I had torn some ligaments but decided to take an x-ray for the fun of it. As soon as the x-ray was developed he had his nurse make an appointment for me with an Orthopedic surgeon in Pocatello. Then he showed me that I had in fact broken my elbow. He thinks that it is an old break from years ago that I didn't know about, and that I just rebroke it. So I will see the other doctor on wednesday and see what we have to do. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't all that serious and will be an easy fix. Here are a few pictures of the injury.

Try and guess which elbow it is.

Here is my left arm x-ray for comparison. I just took a picture of the x-ray film itself so it isn't the greatest.

You can see that broken spot on the left. It almost looks like my elbow became pacman.

Here are all the different angles they took today.

Surprisingly enough It doesn't hurt as bad as I imagined a broken bone would feel like. We'll see what the surgeon says. I really hope I don't need surgery, but who knows. Wish me luck.