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Not my finger ! Wife was sowing on the machine and well as you can see…couldn’t get finger out of machine, 3 ambulance crew who were all very excited as not dealt with this before.

X ray hasn’t hit bone, been pulled out and waiting for another X-ray to check no shrapnel left.

All staff have been amazing had about 15 nurses coming to view it being pulled as not seen it before.

She’s gonna have one painful finger when the anaesthetic wears off !

Pictures no workee

Should now

Ouch!
And I thought it was bad getting a gear cable under the fingernail

Why did I look again……OUCH, bet that made her eyes water!

Is that two needles or did it split?

That’ll stop her picking her nose.

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Sorry to sound er typically STW but why did it require an ambulance?

Same thing happened to my sister in law a few years ago. We pulled it out with some pliers though. 😯

Sorry to sound er typically STW but why did it require an ambulance?

Lol. I was thinking it, but didn’t want to come across as a bit of an arse. Truth is, sometimes people run out of resourcefulness in a bit of a crisis, and ambulance people are generally fairly unflappable, problem solvey types that will sort you out. So fair dos, probably useful in the above situation.

Plus they carry drugs. Lots of drugs.

^^ yep , fair enough I guess.

I grew up in darkest Norfolk where ambulances take an hour plus to arrive. My brother did a similar thing to the above with a fish hook and we drove him to the local GP to hoik it out.

Needle split

Reason for ambulance is that 111 requested it, as when they took needle out if machine it meant moving the machine – and I don’t have a supply of drugs /gas and air.

Unfortunately it hasn’t all come out and she has to go back to plastic surgeon on Tuesday to have it spliced open to remove whatever is left inside.

111 ay. My I am shocked.

Why is that ? I’d never phoned them before

Lol

3 ambulance crew, 15 nurses, 2 xrays and a plastic surgeon! 😯

3 ambulance crew = 1 car then the ambulance with 2 crew , guy in the car didn’t know what to do he was happy to admit that

15 nurses = training hospital and they were told to watch

Plastic surgeon as that’s what the doctor has asked for. I guess when they cut the finger open and take the fragment out it will need to put back nice and neatly

Amen to the NHS !

The car was probs a first responder. Can just about take a BP.

Fake. It must be. Wheres the blood spraying everywhere?! 😆

P.S Ouch…get well soon…

The car was probs a first responder. Can just about take a BP.

Or Rapid Response.

Why is that ? I’d never phoned them before

They’re quite good at sending an ambulance.

It sounds like YOU did the right thing – rang the non emergency line for health advice.
But..I do dispair at 111 sometimes (as, by the sounds of it, does drac!).

Despite this being a nasty injury, unless your wife had passed out, I see no strong clinical reason for an emergency vehicle…
I’m willing to be mistaken, and, as per my opening statement, you didn’t t ring 999 so can’t be blamed – it’s the complete lack of “acceptance of risk” by 111 in a situation that means 111 = 999…

Anyway, neat injury!!!

DrP

No ambulance, had to be taken to hospital in police dog van after bleeding by the side of the road for almost an hour, no gas and air but was offerred a paracetamol by the triage nurse after waiting in A&E for another hour!! Eventually got lots of morphiene a hospital bed forvthe night and surgery.

Despite this being a nasty injury, unless your wife had passed out, I see no strong clinical reason for an emergency vehicle…

You do realise that the implanted foreign body would have been physically attached to the sewing machine when the call was made? Everyone who winced when they saw that now has to imagine it being bolted to a big heavy object and either considering transporting the patient and the machine all together or carefully moving the needle and finger together so that it can be unbolted from the machine, which depending on the machine and where it is in the room might well require the patient to move. I think analgesia is a reasonable request for that, process – once the patient is free from the machine then . I’m actually surprised you didn’t get the fire brigade too. I’ve dealt with someone impailed on a (broken) chainlink fence, and it got a fire crew to use a pair of wire cutters. Its not easy to assess exactly what resource might be required over the phone especially if there are distressed callers or the incident goes “off script”.

I’m not sure why the OP called 111 to be honest. I can’t imagine how they could have been of any assistance even if the call handler had happened to be the world expert in sewing machine needle extraction, working on the weekends for some extra £.

Hope they stitch it neater than you wife OP!
😈

*waves inadequately*

I just got the boys to lean out the car window and shout “nee-naa-nee-naa” as Mrs S drove me into A&E.

I did that with a flatblade screwdriver once, right through the thumb and out the nail. I’ve still got faint black marks on both sides of my thumb because the screwdriver was covered in old grease. Didn’t go to hospital, my thumb got as big as a golf ball.

Yes, I am an idiot.

Yeah 111 can be pretty useless most of time, every time we’ve called we’ve ended up at out of hours care facilities, but I agree with poly what else were they meant to suggest when the patient is attached to industrial machinery…

*Feels slightly queasy* 😯 Get well soon MrsUnfit!!

Some decent cable cutters would have got through that. Alternatively you could have carried the sowing machine 😆

Drac – what would you have suggested, it would have hurt like hell surely if they started moving it about?

For the record and not that I have any need to justify myself, if I could have detached her from the sowing machine I would have, there was no way she could move her hand and I wasn’t prepared to start moving sowing machine about to free the needle – if id have had some gas and air to hand then maybe, which is exactly what the crew did, they also tried with pliers to cut the needle but as it had spliced in two inside the finger decided not to (so good job I didn’t try that as I wanted to).

They also didn’t want her to go into shock which can happen to any patient I guess.

Driving her to A&E like that wasn’t an option.

Which should I have phoned 999 or 111 ?

As mentioned above the doctor couldn’t get all the needle out so she has been referred to a specialist.

She has been machining for over 28 years an this is the first accident

Is there a point to to this thread? It’s well known that the OP often gives her the needle 😛

You don’t need to justify yourself as you made a good decision ringing 111.

I like all the pictures. Cool wife. Mine would have told me to FO. 🙂

She did tell him to FO but he knew how important pics are on threads like this! She was attached to a sewing machine, she would hardly chase him out the room! 😉

cutting a pinao hinge on the saw (yes with block of wood behind it) but it caught and sprung up… bit of gaffa tape and a slow ride home. stupidly caught it again three weeks later opening it up. too late for stitches, that time.
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unloading a large piece of backdrop/frame for a stage and something slipped pinning my finger to the ground. instinctively whipped it out, looked at my finger naiol and thought “close one” till my mate pointed at my finger.
drove to the hospital where i had to endure the doctor picking out the rest of the fabric that had covered the frame. then got a phone call from the lads saying that they had found the tip of my finger and whether or not they should drop it off.
this is after it had been wrapped up with some sort of clingfilm for a day to prevent infection. was still oozing blood a week later. fortunately i could still just about skin-up.

no ambulance, no plastic surgeon…. would have cost me a darn sight more than the 1500€ excess i have to pay on top of my monthly health insurance….. this was in Germany. the NHS is awesome.

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Blurgh 😈

Horrid pics.

My mother used to sew a lot, think she’s done that too once or twice…

As a professional seamstress this is something that happens at least once in a working life.

We were told to take an exact needle with us if an incident such as this happens. The medical staff can then check if there is anything left behind.

Hope your wife mends soon.

Bunnyhop – Member
As a professional seamstress this is something that happens at least once in a working life.

We were told to take an exact needle with us if an incident such as this happens. The medical staff can then check if there is anything left behind.

Hope your wife mends soon.

Exactly what my neighbour said.

bearnecessities – Member
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Just checking, is this a really good pun or just a pun ?