Thorn in thumb, and going septic, who to ask for help from

may have to have part of nail removed she said to get at puss under nail.

Time to call the vet I reckon 😆

TandemJeremy – Member
SD – its not the nurses fault the analgesia you got -it is prescribed by a doctor and only dispensed by the nurses

Don’t agree nurses have a lot more leeway as I found out in next ward where they offered morphine (which has no effect on me) without me asking. Furthermore they should have reported my problems to doctor. In fact failure do so is a “dereliction of duty”. Moreover of 4 of us in the room (not the ward) only 1 had cancer 1 had gall bladder (thought was a heart problem) and the other was an alcoholic who was given drugs almost the instant he asked for them. Again I really pity the cancer patients.

that just not how it works. I am a registered nurse.

If it’s just a splinter, I still say dig it out with a pin ya big wusses!

robbo – Member
SD – rather hip replacement than knee replacement any day for me thanks.

Can’t say I know which worse would have thought hip.

Apparently these bone infections like to hide on rough surfaces so worn joints are more prone to it.

X-rays rhuemotologists showed me he said 2 weeks ago “I had bone rubbing on bone or near enough” and “you should have seen doctor about the pain you have been in” news to me right knee inflamed occasional but hardly in loads of pain till infection?

unusual joint pain as that wad the only sign with me (and some weightloss).

Not sure which joint didn’t hurt at one time or other and weight loss was down to much effort/pain to eat. Soon regained weight……….and a bit more besides bleeding home help and there full monty fry ups! “1/2 dozen eggs will stop that antibiotic induced diarohea” They were right!!!

TandemJeremy – Member
that just not how it works. I am a registered nurse.

Not how what works? Surely you would have reported someone walking up and down in pain all night? In spinal unit Todmadol and paracetamols were standard for everyone morphine was an extra.

I was thinking same as muke (magnesium sulphate) but would a drawing agent work with something under a thumb? But that stuff is usually my second port of call (after hacking with a pin/biting out whatever it is I have stuck in me.

Pus. Not puss.

SD-253: towards the right of your keyboard there’s a big button with an arrow with a right angle in it. Puts spaces between lines. It’s very useful.

njee20 – Member
Pus. Not puss.

SD-253: towards the right of your keyboard there’s a big button with an arrow with a right angle in it. Puts spaces between lines. It’s very useful

No idea why you have typed that? Unless you are talking about my first blog on page 1? that could probably do with a few paragraphs. But typing that much was begining to make my wrist painfull and I got lazy. Nowt to do with infection just using crutches all the time.

New update,

today the nail went blackish after being a horrible yellow colour underneath for a week or so, saw a DR freind last week who did what Drs usually dloo when you tell them something hurts, he squeezed my thumb, and said in the old days he would have heated a paperclip up nad jabbed it into nail, but cant do that anymore.

This morning a gap opened up betwen the base of the old nail and top of the skin on thumb, with what looks and feels like another nail growing underneath, gap now about an eighth of an ince, looks weird and doesnt hurt at the moment.

Is this natural.Pics soon.

Is this natural.

Well it’s growing on you so yes. Normal? Different question.

Sounds like you’re losing the nail. Don’t rip the old one off too soon.

Is this natural.Pics soon.

I don’t think putting pics of injuries on the internet for all and sundry to see is particularly natural, no.

Sounds right to me, that’s what my last dead, manky nail did

Don’t rip the old one off too soon.

definitely don’t do this.
I ripped my big toenail off with a pair of pliers but the root came out with it – toenail has been brittle and ‘floaty’ ever since.

I had exactly this

a gap opened up betwen the base of the old nail and top of the skin on thumb, with what looks and feels like another nail growing underneath

My mate ollied a skateboard onto my thumb when I was about 14.

As I recall, my new nail started as a semicircle where the white semicircle of the nail used to be. It was soft, looked minging and hurt if a draught passed over it. Took a good few months to slough the old nail and harden TFU.

Nearly got suspended from school when the school bully slammed his fist onto it in geography and I instinctively punched him hard, right on the button (his nose). Luckily for him, I had to use my left hand, my right hand being incapacitated by the poorly thumb. Had it been my right hook, he’d probably be pushing up daisies. Or at least bled a bit more. True story.

SD-253 – Member
deadlydarcy – Member
Jesus Christ…it’s like Count Zero on steroids three posts up ^^^
Don’t get it ???

Lolz!
It’s because I used to do long-ish posts on my iPhone, and if you hit return it starts a new line with a cap,
Like this has done, even after a comma, which is a pain.
Instead of having to go back and amend a cap. I’d just let the sentences turn over naturally when I got to the end of the text box.
It’s easier to edit with the bigger screen on my Pad.
Your rather… extensive post left me feeling rather breathless by the time I got to the end. 😀