Pillow Fight Injury
Since the holidays, I've spent nearly every night at work. Megan and I have been planning two ski/snowboard trips this Winter, so for most of January I've been accumulating the time and money to go.
Basically, that was my justification for a work-based blog entry. More time at work meant more stories from work. However, I did really think this was quite interesting, primarily because of how this patient got this injury. It was from a pillow fight.

That's a shoulder dislocation. For you non-medical types, the shoulder joint is like a ball-and-socket. That ball at the top of the arm, is supposed to fit neatly into the socket made by the shoulder blade and the collar bone, like this:

So yes, we successfully put it back in. Drugs are a wonderful thing, not only because they put the patient to sleep so they don't remember the procedure, but because they relax the muscles enough for me to pull that thing back in.
Anyway, from a pillow fight? We were cracking up when the paramedic call first came in over the radio "patient injured during a pillow fight." Retrospectively, the dislocation made sense. It probably occurred when he recklessly, forcefully swung his arm back, pillow in hand.
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