aunty_marion: Official Aunty Marion (Official Aunty Marion)
aunty_marion ([personal profile] aunty_marion) wrote in [personal profile] autographedcat 2007-07-18 11:03 am (UTC)

Ow! I hope you're just bruised, though I know how painful that can be. Ice it, even though it may feel terribly undignified to do so. And if you still have pain in a day, do go and see the doctor, though as far as I know there's not much that can be done for a broken coccyx. Apart from possibly a full body cast...

I speak from experience. In 1977 I fell off a bus - an open-back London red double-decker - while trying to catch it. I'm well-padded there, so I thought it was just bruising. Then at home, later on, I sat down and leaned back and went OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!. Got myself upright eventually, limped into the next bedsit where the girl there took one look at me and phoned the ambulance. I had X-rays, they sent me home as a 'possible cracked coccyx' and told me to take painkillers. When the full report came through a week later, they denied it was cracked: "Oh no, it's just the way your bones grow!" But I know it was cracked, because I could feel it move. Thirty years later, and it still gets uncomfortable if I sit in the wrong position. No, I don't think anything physical could have been done for it, but they might have told me about proper sitting positions/cushions/exercises etc.

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