05-19-2009, 05:55 PM
Nothing worse than broken ribs. I rolled a car back in '89 and broke seven ribs (five of which were broken from the sternum too. I sat in a recliner for a week at my brothers house before I was talked into going to the ER. Good thing as i had full blown pneumonia. The pain was too great to take very big breaths so they ran a catheter up my spine to drip morphine onto the rib cage nerves in order for me to have enough relief to breath. IV antibiotics for a week and I was ready to get out of the hospital. Took a lot longer to heal up the rib cage though and on occasion I have one rib that pops out from its base at the sternum. I have to just let it decide when it'll go back into place again.
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