I was riding on a bike path and switched bikes with my companion because his was an e-bike and I wanted to try it out. I didn’t realize it would accelerate after I stopped pedaling and crashed into him mildly. He didn’t even fall off his bike but I overcorrected trying to avoid him and bombed down the hill. I’m covered in scrapes and I have a couple bruised ribs, bad enough that it hurts to laugh or move in certain ways. A couple people stopped and checked that I was okay after my mishap, so it was bad enough that others were concerned.
My ribs are killing me and I was just getting on my weight loss journey so this is gonna be annoying for a couple weeks and I just have to live with that.
Btw for those who don’t know, usually for this sort of thing they don’t x-ray your chest because it doesn’t matter if they’re bruised or fractured, the management is the same. (This is different in cases of flail chest or massive trauma.) So I don’t know if they’re broken or not I just know that if I sneeze it will feel like getting stabbed and I had a telehealth appt tomorrow where she may tell me to stick to NSAIDs and acetominophen because of my history of addiction.
At my institution it is not protocol to obtain a CXR without other signs because management will be the same. It is different when someone was in a motor vehicle accident or a severe trauma, and they all get pan scanned anyway. I have worked at urgent cares and community clinics and they wouldn’t have done additional imaging in this case. They might have done at the large hospital I rotated at but I’m actually not sure. I’m surprised your urgent care didn’t have x-ray on site. It’s weird to see how different places do it.
I just wanted to complain about it a little bit because it hurts and my friend keeps making me laugh on purpose