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Fell in open well sprinkler covered with grass- top left off on:
July 06, 2003 at 9 pm

went to emergency room
Open wound not cleaned out - sent home with instructions to contact plastic surgeon if hole did not close??!!!
Fire in leg started with in two to three days.. started calling doctors- and plastic surgeons-- the PS thought I was nuts- could not imagine why they said to call them!
Went to primary he looked at it and said to put antibootic creme on it.
Pain keeps increaseing swelling red hot. I keep calling primary he keeps putting me in different casts- which I cant tolerate.
Finally I go to ortho pedic- he looks in open hole this is 4 weeks later and finds dirt and grass. Now soft tissue infection and also finds stress fracture. More casts. I see him for 6 weeks he puts me in pt I cant stand the pain keep going to more doctors every one of them says im a baby its in my head- yet at this time you can see the huge red hot leg.
Finally in my third round of painful pt a year and a half later a physical therapist tells me I dont think you have ankle and knkee problems, I think you should get another opinion but doesnt say what she thinks it is. I go to the doctor she says and he after, xray, triple bone scan, thermographs and Sympathetic lumbar block diagnosis me with RSD. it is now April 04. Too late and it is already in the other leg. Sorry I wrote so much I just get all worked up thinking about it. short answer below
Injured July 6 2003
DX April 04- after sophisticated testing, bone scan, thermograph, Sympathetic Lumbar block, Xrays
Between July 6, 2003 and April 2004 I saw 5-10 doctors, I thought I must have bone cancer the pain was so severe. No one would llisten. it still up sets me almost 5 years later. CZ