Post Surgery
I woke up the next day at 6:00AM, the anesthesiologist had mentioned the block they gave would were off around 6:00am. They were most certainly accurate, at precisely 6:00am I was up and popping my prescription medication. I was up for the next 45min waiting for the pain meds to start working. I finally fell back to sleep for about a half hour and then woke back up in pain again before 8:00. I was hoping the pain meds would last longer than 2hours but they wore off quickly all day.
I went down to sports med to talk with Joe, the athletic trainer who observed my surgery. He told me some new news I wasn’t expecting. They had originally went in to fix my broken left clavicle, one bone. My collarbone was actually broken in 5 places! I had to have one plate with 6 screws and 1 screw holding a lateral separation in the clavicle, 7 scrws total. Fun stuff! It was a really good decision to have the surgery after all:).
From STL article: http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/jog-blog/jog-blog/2009/05/st-louis-olympian-sarah-haskins-opens-triathlon-season-this-weekend/
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05.29.2009 11:25 am
St. Louis Olympian Sarah Haskins opens triathlon season this weekend
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Olympian Sarah Haskins starts her 2009 season this weekend in Madrid. Post-Dispatch file photo.
St. Louis’ triathlon guru, John Lynch, sends word that Olympian and Parkway South grad Sarah Haskins debuts this weekend in the World Cup event in Madrid.
Sarah’s getting a relatively late start on the season because of surgery to repair nerve damage in her lower leg. The race will be broadcast live, though you’ll have to pay about $7.50 and get up about 4:30 a.m. St. Louis time to see it.
Another St. Louis pro, Jillian Petersen, will be sidelined for a bit after falling from her bike and breaking a collarbone. She was 37th on the World Cup circuit, the top pro level of the sport, and the second-ranked American before the accident, which occurred when she was defending her Pan American title.