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cheap x-rays?

ed_chigliaked_chigliak
edited October 2012
Hullo friends,

I fell off a horse a few weeks ago and busted my wrist, it seemed like only soft tissue damage (also the opinion of a nurse on the horse-riding trek with me), but I'm wondering if anyone knows where the cheapest place in town to get an x-ray (and someone to look at it) is? I don't have health insurance so this would be a cash scenario. Just want to make sure I don't have a green stick fracture or something. So many tiny bones in there! I want to eventually be able to do cartwheels again.

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  • UncleBoatShoes2011UncleBoatShoes2011
    Zoom Care in the Pearl does x-rays for 50-75 it looks like.
  • YoursTrulyYoursTruly
    yes I was gonna say I have heard good things about Zoom Care!
    Sorry this happened Ed! What a bummer.

    The other thing is that I know that wrists and ankles specifically take FOREVER to heal, and so sometimes you get worried it's actually a fracture when really it's still just the stupid tendon or whatever healing. My brother's ankle was huge and swollen for MONTHS and finally he went to the doctor and the doc said nope, just a sprain.

    So I guess I'm saying don't worry TOO much, but do go get it checked out....

    HORSE INJURIES!
  • flossy_log_ladyflossy_log_lady
    Yep, I'll just add my experience here, too.

    A couple years ago I got my bike tire stuck in the max tracks and landed on my wrist. It hurt!! And it turned all yellow purple green and I was worried (esp. because at the time I was trying to finish some paintings for a deadline). I ended up going to the doc twice and insisting on some xrays because I was so sure something was seriously wrong, but nope! It just took a gajillion years to heal, like YT's brother's ankle.

    Good luck!!
  • Dr_William_HaywardDr_William_Hayward
    I have broken my wrist twice. You might dig up a picture of the bones then do some pressing and poking them. A dull pain is indicative of a break. To xray them you need to get the position right - a good doc will. There are some breaks, like the navicular, that need special casting to heal like above the elbow. But my last break could use a removable aircast. Wouldn't take potential wrist breaks lightly. No idea where to get it done right at a good price.
  • Loose_ThreadLoose_Thread
    I once got a "sprained ankle" from jumping on a basketball. 3 months later, I walked in to the x-ray and went out on a wheelchair. It had been all broken up in there. In that case, they said it was good that I continued to walk on the break, so that it didn't heal the wrong way.

    My prayers are with you, Ed!
  • ed_chigliaked_chigliak
    Thanks friends! It is healing nicely and is only occasionally bothersome, looking at it you would never guess three weeks ago it was a puffy, grotesquely bruised mess that my traveling companion and I joked about amputating (she had purchased some cooking knives and a tenderizer so we figured we had the tools). At this point a hairline fracture (not green stick as stated above) would actually show up in an x-ray, though I doubt there's anything serious going on. I had to ride the horse for 4 more days after it happened, got good at one-handed reins, crying as we cantered, etc. All aspects of wrist anatomy are currently functional, excepting handstands.

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