In one of my previous posts I mentioned getting assaulted at a local skating rink and being repeatedly punched in the face. If something like this had happened to a normal person, he or she would go to the emergency room to at least check for signs of concussion. However, being the big macho Russian that I am, I decided that seeing a doctor would not be manly enough, so I took copious amounts of Ibuprofen and patently waited for the swelling to subside.
Last Wednesday (January 16), about a week and a half after the accident, I was washing my face in the morning and I felt a piece of bone jutting out from under my left eye. Apparently, the swelling subsided enough so that I could feel the bone chip.
Freaking out, I ran out of the shower and called an ophthalmologist for an emergency appointment. To make a long story short, one X-ray and two CAT scans later, I found out that I had six broken bones in my face, further complicated by a potential leak of cerebral fluid into the sinus cavity.
On Friday, I was admitted to UPMC Presbyterian for a facial reconstruction surgery. The doctors had to re-break my cheek bone and set it into place, mend my left orbital bone with a plate and replace the back wall of my eye socket with a plastic mesh.
Being in the hospital for three days and spending the last four days half-conscious because of painkillers changed my perspective on a lot of things. Since I still suffer from post-surgical double vision, it is a little difficult to write. I’ll be posting more info and details that might be interesting even to those who are not hopped up on codeine.
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