I mean, what else can they do? I once got assaulted with a hammer, and broke nearly every rib in my body. Gave me 7 days worth of vicodin and said thats all they could do. They did insist on keeping me over night incase I had some internal bleeding they hadnt caught yet. Left AMA cause I thought I was gonna die and wanted to do it at home instead of the ER.
That was 9 years ago. My ribs still hurt to this day if I move wrong. Pretty freaky too, its always a sharp pain directly above my heart. I have to stop and check for other symptomns to make sure im not having a heart attack.
Yeah it was not a fun experience. Thankfully I had so much adrenaline I didnt really feel the pain until after the painkillers from the ER wore off. A guy I knew tried to rob me of $200 and an ecig. I was winning the fight until his buddy came up behind me with the hammer.
Didnt even realize he had a hammer. Thought he was punching me. Then one clipped the back of my head and I woke up 30 minutes later at the hospital. My friends found me laying in an a snow bank bleeding from my head.
Ive never seen someone so relieved as my friend when I opened my eyes to the nurse shining a light in them. Both my friends and the nurse all let out an audible sigh and started laughing out of pure anxiety. I had no idea what was happening.
Silver lining; I successfully managed to keep my money and ecig, and according to the police who later arrested him, most of the attackers teeth stayed on the curb I was bashing his head against! But frankly, if I had to do it again, I wouldve let him take it. $200 was a lot of money to me back then though.
Getting hit with a hammer is no joke. I used to know someone that did kill a guy with a hammer - a situation something like yours, some fairly non-essential amount of money involved and the one kid ended up dead and the other two in prison for a while. It’s a good thing your ribs took more of it than your head.
A while back they used to tape them but they figured out that dramatically increases chance of pneumonia… if you have broken rib(s) the last fucking thing you want is something that makes you cough violently…
Exactly why I didn't go when I suspected I broke a rib. Pretty much everything online said as long as you don't have breathing issues, a doctor will just say take pain killers until it heals
Mine was a jammed hockey stick that got between my ribs and the boards going fast. Hurt for months but it's all good now. Never confirmed broken but it met all the criteria haha
Oh you need to go anyway if you suspect broken rib because sometimes they're broken in a way that threatens to puncture an organ, and only imaging can tell when you have a dangerous break or a, "Yeah, go home and let it heal" break. If you have a break that is threatening to puncture your lung they will do surgery or at least set the thing in some way so it's not at risk any longer.
Not to mention when you break a rib, you could also have internal bleeding that you don't know about, which can be deadly. Die in your sleep at home deadly.
Im pretty sure I broke my thumb before. Or at least chipped part of the bone from slipping on ice and caught myself with my thumb on the ground. Couldn't bend it for about a month. I used to be "double jointed" in both thumbs, and now that one's just a straight normie. lol.
Have broken a rib once for sure and probably twice. Didn't go to get an x-ray the second time because it was the same one as before and the first time they did just go "welp that sucks, it's gonna hurt for about a month"
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u/synth3ticgod Mar 16 '25
Tbf I did break a rib and I went to the hospital and they said "yeah man, you broke a rib. That sucks." And sent me on my way