It was when a sort of shocking numbness finally came over him that Stabler pried himself out of bed. He cried out in pain as he stood and gravity pulled his arm down. "Shit." Hanging his head and holding onto his arm he shuffled shamefully out of the room after grabbing some clean clothes out of the closet. First he'd take a shower; get the blood and come off of him, before he went to the hospital.
But instead he just collapsed in the shower and passed out, the warm water beating down on his broken form.