05-19-2009, 06:06 PM
Luke Warmwater Wrote: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.I want some morphine. Give me morphine, damn it!!!
Mine were just fractured though, not all the way broke. I'm sure the pain is much more intense.