After watching an 18 minute video on "Understanding a Cervical Spine CT Scan",I could finally understand the scans and I knew my fractures have come a long way but they have definitely not fused completely.
Before going to the doctor, I think I knew that I wasn't going to need surgery and I'll probably need to wear the brace for another month before the bones fuse completely. So when I finally did meet the doctor(a very serious doctor), he said with a smile on his face "the fractures are fusing really well, but you'll need to wear the brace for another three months" and just when I was about to whine, he said "I'll make you wear it for a year if it's required so please don't cry about it, you don't know how blessed you are to have gotten away with just a couple of fractures"
And that's when I knew, I will be turning 28 in this brace!
Next, I asked if I can go back to work since it's been almost four months and he said YES!!!!! (not in an excited tone of course). He said I need to be extra careful since Delhi roads are terrible and maybe I can start with a couple of times a week for just a few hours a day.
After much discussion at home, I finally went to work yesterday.
Thankfully my team is just happy to have me back, even if it's for a couple of times a week. I know, the next three months will not be like yesterday. Yesterday was only about catching up on what's happened in the last few months, a 'little' gossip, a long lunch and some work updates.
I ended up going for a meeting as well and the reaction was exactly how it is every time I meet someone new, "Oh my god! What HAPPENEDDDDD??". I realized I'll have to repeat the story only about 300 times over the next three months but that's OK. With in three minutes of being in the meeting, I'd completely forgotten that I was wearing a brace and looking like a robo-cop and work is what mattered more.
Someone I met yesterday told me about how her sister met with a terrible accident 4 years ago and managed to break more than 6 bones in her spine and had to undergo 3 intense surgeries. The doctors weren't sure if she'll be able to walk again but after dropping a year in college and 6 months in physiotherapy, she can walk, she can run, she can drive and the verdict was that all all anyone has to do is stay positive and work towards a goal. I really need to keep hearing such stories to remind myself that everything will be A-OK!
With time I think I'll be back in action and hopefully the next three months will pass by faster than the last three did.
Before going to the doctor, I think I knew that I wasn't going to need surgery and I'll probably need to wear the brace for another month before the bones fuse completely. So when I finally did meet the doctor(a very serious doctor), he said with a smile on his face "the fractures are fusing really well, but you'll need to wear the brace for another three months" and just when I was about to whine, he said "I'll make you wear it for a year if it's required so please don't cry about it, you don't know how blessed you are to have gotten away with just a couple of fractures"
And that's when I knew, I will be turning 28 in this brace!
Next, I asked if I can go back to work since it's been almost four months and he said YES!!!!! (not in an excited tone of course). He said I need to be extra careful since Delhi roads are terrible and maybe I can start with a couple of times a week for just a few hours a day.
After much discussion at home, I finally went to work yesterday.
Thankfully my team is just happy to have me back, even if it's for a couple of times a week. I know, the next three months will not be like yesterday. Yesterday was only about catching up on what's happened in the last few months, a 'little' gossip, a long lunch and some work updates.
I ended up going for a meeting as well and the reaction was exactly how it is every time I meet someone new, "Oh my god! What HAPPENEDDDDD??". I realized I'll have to repeat the story only about 300 times over the next three months but that's OK. With in three minutes of being in the meeting, I'd completely forgotten that I was wearing a brace and looking like a robo-cop and work is what mattered more.
Someone I met yesterday told me about how her sister met with a terrible accident 4 years ago and managed to break more than 6 bones in her spine and had to undergo 3 intense surgeries. The doctors weren't sure if she'll be able to walk again but after dropping a year in college and 6 months in physiotherapy, she can walk, she can run, she can drive and the verdict was that all all anyone has to do is stay positive and work towards a goal. I really need to keep hearing such stories to remind myself that everything will be A-OK!
With time I think I'll be back in action and hopefully the next three months will pass by faster than the last three did.
*Too blessed to be stressed*
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