Hospitals get clobbered financially for making people wait more than 4 hours…

The question for mayan is “Is this an accident or an emergency?”

The point for our morbidly named friend is that while I’m sure he’s technically capable of wielding a scalpel operations are better done in operating theatres where we have those nice bright lights like grizzlygus has… 🙂

Course not Dr Death, but as we both know there’s glass in an arm just under the surface and more than one bit of glass that can be deeper than expected that usually benefits from a tourniquet and better lighting than most A&Es have…

My post is mainly based on the memories of the last one of these that I did (in theatre) where there were more bits of glass than expected and they were fairly close to the ulnar nerve. (Hence advising against random digging around) But if you have a willing patient, tolerant of local anaesthetic, the tourniquet and a bright light there’s no reason why it couldn’t be done in A&E. (Provided the 4 hour wait matron allows you!)

Go back and ask your GP to refer you on to the local orthopaedic or plastic surgeon if it’s really bothering you.

These things tend to either work their way out with time or stay walled off with scar tissue. There are lots of people out there with shrapnel in that has caused no harm for the last 40 years or so but similarly it’s not unusual to find people after car accidents who notice the glass six months down the line and want it take out. As suggested you’ll need an x-ray and a helpful surgeon.

PLEASE don’t dig it out yourself, I’d happily remove it as it is now but wouldn’t be right amused when on call to have to take you to theatre at some antisocial time because you slipped with your razor blade after some vodka…

(Currently working as an orthopaedic registrar in Peterborough if you’re nearby…)

thanks everyone.

In the end we just went up and down Jacobs ladder, hangovers restricting further ride!

Does anyone know anyone who has ridden all the way up? Tommy & I pushed most of the way wheras Max almost rode the whole thing. Hindered slightly by loose cleat and wind blowing the wrong way…

So has anyone ridden it without dabs?

Good fun on the way down…

1987 ish. Huge purple Raleigh Mirage before graduating to a clockwork.

Eee them were the days.

(Max had a flourescent Shogun trailbreaker I seem to remember!)

Thanks chaps, sounds great.

On stag do in Tideswell which isn’t quite Hope now I look a the map…

Thanks for all suggestions and invites. I’m more at the fat and feeble end of the scale (well, not that fat) but certainly the older I get the better I was sort of thing. Will get a map on the way there.

Sadly can’t view the video as at work but at least now have a better idea of where to head. Which bridleway is the beast? (rapid responses please as about to get into car!!)

Thanks again for extreme helpfulness!

Tim

Thanks Will,
Where do we start?
Grid refs?
Impressed by rapid responses!

Snowdon. Happy days.

Why,oh why do I live in Suffolk?!!