I am such a dumba**

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Caution : pure whining ahead :

I am sitting here trying to convince myself to seek medical attention but just can't go. ARRGGHH!!

2 days ago I broke a little piece of bone or something about the size of a pencil eraser off of either my nose or eyesocket and it's sitting there under the skin hurting right on the bridge of my nose growing redder and bigger and more annoying. I was reeeaaallly (and unrealistically) hoping it would just go away.

The worst part is how it happened. You know how you smack yourself in the forehead when you do something dumb? I forgot I was wearing glasses and did that and chipped something. WTF?? Does this kind of thing happen to anyone else?

Now I have to go to see a doc, and I hate talking to medical people, and I hate being by germs and tell them my stupid story, and be in flourescent lights for maybe hours on the weekend. I did my 40+ hours in those stupid lights this week - I hate this. And Saturday is my day to be a hermit day where I don't have to function or get dressed or smile or talk to anyone or deal with people so I can decompress and recharge for acting normal all week.

They're probably gonna have to cut it open too. ugh.

So , my choices are : go get help or turn into a unicorn looking thing. yuck yuck yuck.

Thanks for listening to my rant, it helps to say this "out loud" . I've never been able to express this stuff to anyone before I found WP.

Sounds like you should really seek medical attention. Easier said than done, yes, but if you rather look like a unicorn..

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Please get medical help! That's horrific!

Thanks for the encouragement kra17 and Spazzergasm, I'm going to take a shower and go. I just feel so stupid and really don't want to, but I have to do it.

Hope it goes well.

I also hope that things go well for you.

Hope that you go see the doc...a lot of bad things could happen...plus, it will be one less thing on your mind once you do.

You have to be nice to yourself! Taking yourself for medical attention is a good start. I hope it heals nicely.

Hopefully it can be taken care of quickly and then you can recuperate. Maybe take that time making up outlandish embellishments of what happened.

Let me share my stupid injury story to make you feel better about your stupid injury.

I was in art class with the meanest most unpredictable unrealistic art professor I ever had. He would tell me what a great job I was doing and then smack me upside the head with a C. I value my gpa...C's are uncool. So after the 3rd time of such an incounter, I was working on a project trying my best to predict what he wanted. I was at home and it was due in a day. (we are expected to put 3-4 days work in our paintings). Then I was sitting on my airbed and all the sudden it just got to me, the whole injustice of this situation. So I started to meltdown and punched the airbed as hard as I could and all the sudden I heard a crack and sharp paralizing pain went up my arm. I had just hit the concrete floor as hard as I could cause I misguaged how deflated the bed was. OUCH that hurt. My hand was broken. My right hand at that. I am in art school and I am very right-handed. So I called my mom and she got a ticket driving 100 mph in a 65. She was lucky she did not go to jail. Well she took me to the ER...and the doctor was really good about it. He looked at my hand and pointed without an x-ray exactly where I broke it. He says we see these injuries alot from people punching inmovable objects. I explained that I meant to just hit the airbed, but I did not know how deflated it was. He just winked and smiled and sent me off to x-ray.
He put my hand in a brace...no need to cast it. Then the goodnews was I got an default A on all my projects that I had to paint with my left hand after my mom explained how poorly I use my left hand. I never told the teacher that I broke my hand because of him.

Believe me ER doctors have seen it all. Your accident will not be the worst in terms of stupid accidents they will have seen. I promice.

They need to check your bone density...you should not have broken your nose/eyesocket with just a face palm with glasses.

heal quick!

Jojo

Thanks everyone for the kind thoughts and kindred stories, it really helps to know that someone understands how hard doing a simple thing like seeking medical care can be. I really appreciate the support.

I went to the ER/urgent care place and they x-rayed it. It's infected because I waited 2 days so they gave me meds to take out the infection so the swelling can go down and they can look at it again to see what can be done. It turns out that the guy who does the intake did the same thing once so I felt a lot better knowing I wasn't the only one. The rest went pretty much as expected, lights bad, freezing cold, people rude (my local hospital is this giant place that takes up 4 city blocks that they fly trauma cases to from the whole area, so my little problem is a gnat in their day). But I went and I got through it and I will go to the followup visit at the Ear Nose Throat guy's office.

Jojobean, my son did something similar in middle school - he punched the padded wall in qym class instead of the kid who was bullying him, he forgot there was a cement wall behind it and broke his own hand. When we got to the orthopedist, he took one look and asked "what's her name"? Apparently this is a very common injury for young men often caused by girls. Sad part is he got suspended from school for it because they have a no tolerance policy for violence of any kind and the bully just had to go to the counselor to talk about being nice. The next time, he punched the kid instead of the wall and I can't say I blame him. I told the principal - if you're going to get suspended anyway ...... where is his reason to punch the wall instead of the kid? He did not have an answer. I am so glad he is a senior in HS now and a black belt so we don't have to deal with these kids anymore.

Thanks also for the advice on testing bone density, I am getting close to that age where I am at risk and will need to take that up at my (overdue) annual physical.