Story goes on Monday night I headed out with a few friends to celebrate my 21st birthday. After a few solid hours of drinking raspberry vodka's I was getting out of the car at home when my shoe snapped, I lost my balance and headbutted the ground. My friends cleaned me up, put an icepack on my head, stopped the bleeding and wacked me into bed. I visited my local GP asap Tuesday and ended up staying in hospital overnight for a CT scan of my head, an IV and monitoring.
To cut a long story short my head should be fine (thanks), but i have ended up with a very badly grazed left forhead with a large haematoma. My eyes are soo badly swollen that i can barely open them and my face very closely resembles a boxer's after losing a long fight.
My question to you is: Do you know of any remedies that i can try which may help alleviate the swelling. (preferably by Sunday please as i have a party to attend)
Please bare in mind I am in Australia so may not recognise some brand names.
I arrived at the engagement party in a brand new dress and had just had some more foils put in my hair. My hair is very long and has a sweeping fringe (if you have noticed it is the latest fashion with many girls) so I tried to position that to cover up the nasty graze on my forehead. A big THANK YOU to the suggestions given here to reduce swelling, as it is MUCH better and nearly gone. ( Probably only my closest friends and myself can notice the difference) I still had the black eyes which were starting to turn yellowish, but with the magic of make-up they were less obvious.
Word spreads pretty fast about accidents so most people i know did know about my face. People said they thought i had recovered very well, and i gave all the credit to the awesome nurses who gave me idea's from here.
The party was a lot of fun and went for hours and at 3 am i had to go home as i had Big Day Out on Monday.
I choose not to drink any alcohol and wore a pair of flat shoes!! hahhaha. I also wore my Australian shaped badge of our flag and put my big flag up in the front window of my house so everyone passing could see it!!
I hope you had a wonderful Australia day too!!! I wished for rain, world peace, and academic success!!!!
Thanks again Tookie and I hope every Aussie had a great day Sunday!!
Specializes in Med/Surg/Ortho/HH/Radiology-Now Retired.
RACH,
Sounds like you had a lovely time sweetie & good on you for not letting the swollen / bruised face stop you! We're only young once & before you know it... you'll be like me! An "oldie" of 52!!! BUT...
It's actually FABULOUS! :-) All that "young" stuff is behind & over with. You feel in control & confident of who you are. It's FABULOUS! So, you've got something to look forward to! :-)
Let's hope no more falling flat on your face though!! LOL.... Again, HAPPY 21ST !!...
Well done Racheal glad you had a great time - At some time in l must relate all my falls storeys - I broke my leg in a fall 2 years ago - recently had a fall at the Coles supermarket (last Wednedsay) whilst wheeling the trolley backwards - sober
Anyway glad it was a great day and night. Marvellous what a little makeup does isnt it.
Aussienurse2
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'Tis true!! I promise!!:roll :roll :roll