We both had to work on new years eve but the restaurant was having a party up on the second floor so we were excited to get to go up there when we were done with work. We got finished working at about 11:52pm just in time to grab some champagne get our party hats and noise makers and head upstairs and count down with everyone!! it was so much fun celebrating with everyone! the restaurant is only a block away from the plaza where they set off the most amazing fireworks! the fireworks went on for over 15 minutes it was awesome!! it was sort of drizzling a little bit but we didnt mind we went up to the roof patio and sat around a table and watched the fireworks! we were so close and they were wonderful! the longest fireworks show i have ever seen! After the towns firework show was over, we went back down to the bar to hang out with everyone.
We stayed at the bar until 2:30ish and for some reason we stupidly decided that we would bike home. this was not smart for more than one reason. But the main reason it was not smart was because Chris ended up getting in an accident. :( I had biked ahead a little ways and when I stopped i noticed that he was not behind me, so i turned around and biked back to the restaurant and thats when i saw him on the ground in the middle of the road and people all around! I was so freaked out, i threw my bike down and ran to him and saw that he was in a lot of pain. I was crying obviously but freaking out even more because i didnt know what was wrong and i thought he had been hit by a car. i think what happened was that he must have hit the front breaks on the bike or the tires slipped on the wet pavement and sent him over his handle bars. causing him to land on his left shoulder and left eyebrow. So the ambulance came and picked us up and took us to the hospital where they stitched up his left eyebrow which had a big gash on it. he kept holding his left shoulder and i knew he broke something. So they told me that we were going to have to fly to the main island to the hospital in fajardo to get his shoulder looked at. we got back in the ambulance and pulled up on the tarmac of the airport and got in one of the small 9 seater planes, took off and landed in Ceiba after only about 20 minutes in the air. Another ambulance met us on the tarmac and drove us another 20 or so minutes to the hospital in Fajardo. They took about 9 xrays of his shoulder and a CT scan of his head. and then they put us in a large ice box of a room! it was so cold in their i think i could see my breath. it was about 5 or 530 am at this point and we were both exhausted, emotionally and physically. He fell asleep pretty quickly before and after the xrays, and finally after waiting a while the doctor came in to let me know that he had broken his collarbone, but that everything else looked ok! He told me they would give him some pain killers and some fluids, and that he was getting an orthopedic doctor to come and talk to us. it felt like forever until someone came in to hook up his iv of pain killers and give him a shot of demerol. After the shot he fell back asleep for a while and i tried to get warm and relax. the small bag they had dripping into his iv was almost finished and i thought that we would be able to go soon and get out of that freezing room! but then the nurse came back in and hooked up this huge bag of fluids!! Chris kept sleeping...he had a nice bed to lay in, i had two plastic chairs. they gave him some paper blankets that kept him pretty warm and comfy. i had my rain coat, capri yoga pants and a tank top. i was freeeezing and uncomfortable. i asked the nurse if there was a sheet or something that i could have to keep me warm. She brought me back a sheet and i wrapped myself up and curled myself up into one of the chairs next to his bed, put my feet in the other chair, made a little pillow on the end of his bed where his legs were not and put my head down and tried to sleep a little bit. but it seemed that every time i would get near sleep someone would come in the room or i would hear a noise and i would wake up to make sure that Chris was ok. it was still freezing in the room and the sheet was doing little to keep me warm but i found this knob on the wall next to the door that would control the a/c, set on hi!! but there was something written in marker underneath the knob, the only part i knew was the "no" part and i assumed the other word meant something along the lines of touching or changing. i wanted to follow the rules and not mess anything up, but i was soo cold and so was chris! so i walked back to chris' bed, teeth chattering and freezing, looked around to see if anyone was watching, walked back to the door and turned the knob down to med!! i was not sure if it would really change the temp in the room that much but at least i had done something! i went back to my chair, wrapped up in the sheet and relaxed again. the temp did not change at all or at least i could not tell, and i felt like we had been there forever, i thought we were going to have to wait until the bag of fluids was gone and for sure that would take 2 days! but then the doc walked in followed by another man and introduced him to us as the orthopedic doctor!!! he was going to put a figure 8 sling on chris' arm and then we would be able to go!! we were both happy to get out of there finally. So the doc wrapped him up in this harness thing which did not look like it was very comfortable and the nurse called us a publico to take us to the ferry and we were off!! it was so much warmer outside! it was wonderful! we got to the ferry just in time, they had already started boarded but i got our tickets and ran to the gate and told them to wait as chris slowly walked behind me. We had to ride the cargo ferry. the ferry ride was terrible we both felt sick since we had not eaten in a long time and were so exhausted. but we both closed our eyes and rested until we got to vieques where duey was waiting for us with the car, and some snacks!! We couldnt get chris' pain meds filled until monday so he had to make do with tylenol and ibuprofen. He was hurtin pretty bad!! but come monday we got the pain meds and he was a happy camper! he has been laying low for the past couple days, sleeping a lot (due to the pain killers).
he is getting better and better everyday, we go to see another orthopedic doctor on tuesday in Fajardo to make sure that everything is on track and see what we can do.
i am so thankful that he is ok, and we have certainly learned a lesson!
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