[He lies down on his back, not bothering to disguise the slight wince as he does so. Moving around is still a bit uncomfortable, even if it's not as bad as it had been when he'd first been injured.]

He said that a couple of them were definitely broken, but there wasn't much we could do about it. He made sure the broken ones hadn't caused any other kind of internal injury, and gave me some variety of opiates to manage the pain. I've had broken ribs before -- it's never exactly pleasant.