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National Self-Injury Awareness Day
March 1
First Injury — January 2016
I have become very self-injury aware since the first time I fell and broke my left leg in 2016.
I worked for a durable medical equipment company in another town. There was a store in my local town that I would stop at and get things I needed to take with me to the other store.
It was snowing and sleeting. The roads were slippery. The parking lot was slippery and the ramp into the store was slippery. When I came back out the door of the local store I was in a hurry and I slipped on the ice and fell down. My left ankle snapped.
I had on good quality snow boots that went over my ankle. The co-worker who was working the local store that morning called 911. I was able to scoot myself back inside the door with her help so I didn’t have to lay in the snow and ice until the ambulance got there.
The EMT’s came and had to pull the snow boot off my ankle. I screamed in pain. They took me to the emergency room. My left leg was x-rayed and I was told it was broken in three places and would need surgery. The tibia was split longways and two other bones were snapped.
