Sorry to hear about your injury............

At my sister's house, I fell down the steps, they are carpeted and slick, and about 18 in all. Well I fell down about 16 of these steps, because when I hit step #2, it was all over. And I didn't slide down on my butt either, it's like I was twisted up some kind of way. When I hit the bottom, I could not get up for a few minutes, and think I may have been knocked out for a sec. And no one in the house said they heard anything, no one came to help me!! Of course they were all high, but smoking doesn't impair my hearing. When I did finally get up, my foot was bleeding and I had the worst pain in my knee; I could barely walk. The bruise didn't develop until later, but me, being weak and low pain tolerant, went to the urgent care the next day, and had an x-ray. Nothing was broken, but the doctor said I had a bone bruise (which I had never even heard of prior to this) and the area above me knee was so dark purple and black it was not funny. Nothing I could do, he said. Just rest, elevation, and ice. And some Vicodin, lol. But it hurt for at least two weeks and the bruise didn't go away completely for about a month or more. Hope to never do that ever again.