When I got home, my children were still up and I gave them the things they needed and they went to bed after our routine. I in the meantime tried to call my husband and finally got him on the phone and we decided to make an appointment to go to the chiropractor first thing in the morning.
I applied some Essential Oils to my back to dull the pain and when my husband got home from work he helped me apply some more for good measure. After the application, the pain was gone but since I was hurting so much before the oils, I knew it was bad. I talked to my husband about broken bones and he said if it were broken I wouldn't even be able to walk and reassured me it was probably just bruised.
I slept, surprisingly well, especially since I don't move at all when I am sleeping and wake up in the same position I fall asleep in. When I woke up, I didn't feel any pain because I wasn't moving. What I did feel was the full bladder sensation (so glad I can still feel that right?). This is a normal thing, it happens every morning without fail.
The PAIN came when I started to move to get out of bed. Suddenly I recalled the night before and the trip to the bathroom seemed enormous. Not only did I have to get out of a bed that is 4 feet off the floor; that is a good thing, really, but I also had to climb 25 stairs to get to the main floor of my home. No I don't want to talk about it, except it was really slow and painful. It wasn't slow because of the pain, just the pressure on my bladder.
At this point I was grateful for some of my other "blessings" of having the body I have cuz my bladder was trained just for a time like this, when I would have to empty it but wouldn't be able to right away.
I started dry-heaving because I was so nauseated from the pain and I had to remind myself to breathe several times.
My husband had called his chiropractor, and we had an early appointment. He helped me find some clothes and then left me to get dressed and help the kids get going on their day. Looking back at that now, I wish I had asked him to help me because I woke up on the floor screaming from the pain.
We went to the doctor and I won't bore you with the details of getting there etc.
Now I am getting to the really cool part about having diabetes and taking care of my body and healthy eating: When the Dr. took the Xray of my back, he showed where the back was out and also pointed out how there wasn't a break, crack or anything of that nature on my spinal column. He also commented how dense the bone tissue looked and how beautiful the xray was. I asked him what he meant and he said for my age, my bones looked beautiful.
What is so cool about this is since I have diabetes, I have been more concerned about what I put in my mouth than before I was diagnosed. I have focused mainly on blood sugars and eating healthy foods. Recently I had started transitioning to whole foods almost entirely to include whole grains, raw and fresh fruits and vegetables and very little processed foods.
I avoid foods that contain ingredients that I can't pronounce or don't know the reason for them being in the food. As I have gotten more information about healthy eating, I have worked on implementing it in my eating habits. I had in the past 6 months begun phasing out products containing soy, high fructose corn syrup, and corn.
I have also been avoiding drinking anything other than water and the occasional fruit smoothie.
I had learned a month prior to this injury, the effect of drinking soda on your bones and I had mentally patted myself on the back multiple times for avoiding drinking it for the last 30 odd years as it has always made my stomach upset after drinking it.
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