Anyone else chopped anything off or had anything stitched up yet?
Fell over yesterday morning, and landed with my full 14 stone on a stick, which was stuck in the ground.
1cm diameter, travelled 7cm into my body, LIF Fossa, thankfully missing organs, bowel and stomach. If I hadnt been wearing a thick knitted top, I think it would have come out my back.
As soon as I got to the hospital, I was immeadiatly pushed to the front of the queues, seen by 3 doctors, a surgeon, [who all had a go sticking their entire fingers in up to the hilt,] CT scan, and the registrar, and admitted to the surgical ward.
Im pretty accident prone. [Week before I shoved a barbed size 12 treble hook through my finger and the nail]
I have to say the NHS doctors and nurses were absolutely great. If youre gonna injure yourself, a stab wound is a good one to go for. You get pushed right to the front of the queue.
No stitches, in case an absess formed. Theyve just stuffed it full of sorbsan ribbon with a medical probe in the end.
Dont know how I would have fared if I had been somewhere remote.
Fell over yesterday morning, and landed with my full 14 stone on a stick, which was stuck in the ground.
1cm diameter, travelled 7cm into my body, LIF Fossa, thankfully missing organs, bowel and stomach. If I hadnt been wearing a thick knitted top, I think it would have come out my back.
As soon as I got to the hospital, I was immeadiatly pushed to the front of the queues, seen by 3 doctors, a surgeon, [who all had a go sticking their entire fingers in up to the hilt,] CT scan, and the registrar, and admitted to the surgical ward.
Im pretty accident prone. [Week before I shoved a barbed size 12 treble hook through my finger and the nail]
I have to say the NHS doctors and nurses were absolutely great. If youre gonna injure yourself, a stab wound is a good one to go for. You get pushed right to the front of the queue.
No stitches, in case an absess formed. Theyve just stuffed it full of sorbsan ribbon with a medical probe in the end.
Dont know how I would have fared if I had been somewhere remote.
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