Thread: OUCH, that hurt !!!

Originally Posted by MickS

On a serious note Scott...did you get the "DOCS" kind of questions/3rd degree from hospital staff. Tends to happen when kids turn up at hospital injured.

I bet they have heard the 'walked/ran into a door/ wall' too many times over the years, too

JC

Originally Posted by justinc

I bet they have heard the 'walked/ran into a door/ wall' too many times over the years, too

JC

I could tell you some stories that would make your skin crawl and blood boil....

2 year old took a dive off a short brick wall into a pile of gravel his older brother had conveniently made for him. Off to the hospital and they glued him back together again. Surgical superglue, lovely stuff.

He was quite jolly when I took to the wall with a sledgehammer a couple of days ago.

Originally Posted by MickS

I could tell you some stories that would make your skin crawl and blood boil....

Thanks, but no thanks, I can well imagine. The current flood situation is hard enough for me to take at the moment I was in a flash flood many years ago in far Nth WA after a tropical low dumpd huge falls over 30 hours, local creek near our camp rose 6mtres in 50 minutes, we spent 3 days sheltering in a mine site donga on a hilltop, and another 3 days after the waters went down searching up in trees up to 2 km away for our gear, 44gal drums and spare wheels etc etc.

We were lucky to get out, that first night the drilling crew woke to feel their van sliding downstream into some trees, they climbed out the roof light to spend the night on top, a see of black water, trees and debris as far as they could see.

Water is a very frightening thing in that volume.

JC

Originally Posted by MickS

On a serious note Scott...did you get the "DOCS" kind of questions/3rd degree from hospital staff. Tends to happen when kids turn up at hospital injured.

We didn't go to hospital.

It happened at around 8.10am on Saturday. We managed to get the blood to ease off after 5-10min & he was quite calm then. Our local GP clinic is quite good & we took him there. I actually copped a bagging from one of the doctors there last year when I didn't get my squashed finger sewn up - I didn't realise GPs did that sort of work.

They're not supposed to open until 9.00am & we were there just after 8.30am. Surprisingly, they opened up 15min early & Owen was 2nd in line.

After fighting Owen just to get the cut cleaned up, the doctor said that we will have to take him to the hospital if we couldn't hold him still enough for the stitches. He also said you could be waiting 8hrs to even get looked at.
We made sure we held him down & we were all done & home by 9.15am .

So, to answer your question, no questions were asked. We don't have a specific doctor that we see but the one on the day is one we often see.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

2 year old took a dive off a short brick wall into a pile of gravel his older brother had conveniently made for him. Off to the hospital and they glued him back together again. Surgical superglue, lovely stuff.

According to the doctor, that was another reason not to go to hospital. He said the glue often works but sometimes it doesn't & the hospital uses that first rather than stitches. He much preferred to use stitches straight off.