Ingrown toenails

greencreeper · 30-05-2005, 22:47

Mine are going to be ripped off on Wednesday. I've had three cancelled appointments prior to this, for various reasons. I'm preparing for not coming out - various factors contribute to a fairly high probability something will go wrong. Dying doesn't really worry me as much as not being here does, and leaving behind loved ones.

Anyone want to share their horror stories, just to comfort me

Chimaera · 30-05-2005, 22:49

I'm glad I'm not the only one to be scared! You will be fine though - remember you only hear of the horror stories/things that went wrong in the press - the papers wouldn't have enough room to publish all the success stories!
Good luck and hope you get lots of TLC when you come home, and post on here with the gory details/photos!

dilli-theclaw · 30-05-2005, 22:49

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

Anyone want to share their horror stories, just to comfort me

about ingrowing toenails?

greencreeper · 30-05-2005, 22:53

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

about ingrowing toenails?

Any hospital horror story.

Well, here's my analysis...

Hospitals are dirty and full of sick people - high chance of infection and/or acquiring something nasty
The nails themselves are infected, which leaves open the possibility of septic shock, which means I won't be coming home with the same number of limbs and/or IQ I went in with
The surgery is minor - the sort trusted to a junior surgeon...
The surgery is routine - things that are routine have more chance of going wrong because routine breeds complacency. I've done it myself with computers.

I will post the gory details if I make it out.

Chimaera · 30-05-2005, 22:57

Of course you will make it out - only the good die young, remember! And as soon as you can walk or hobble about the ward you will be out - someone else will be waiting in the wings for your bed! And at least that way there is less chance of getting an infection (and less hospital food). They don't let the really junior doctors loose with operations - you should get someone with a bit of experience at least! And even if you do, I think most junior doctors start their new posts in August - so they would have had a few months experience by now, anyway.

dilli-theclaw · 30-05-2005, 22:57

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

Any hospital horror story.

Well, here's my analysis...

Hospitals are dirty and full of sick people - high chance of infection and/or acquiring something nasty
The nails themselves are infected, which leaves open the possibility of septic shock, which means I won't be coming home with the same number of limbs and/or IQ I went in with
The surgery is minor - the sort trusted to a junior surgeon...
The surgery is routine - things that are routine have more chance of going wrong because routine breeds complacency. I've done it myself with computers.

I will post the gory details if I make it out.

A couple of years ago my local hospital ran out of spaces in the morgue and was laying bodies out in the chapel.

Not nice - but true.

As for personal stories of horror - well I had an operation on my privates and that wasn't fun.

fireman328 · 30-05-2005, 22:58

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

Any hospital horror story.

Well, here's my analysis...

Hospitals are dirty and full of sick people - high chance of infection and/or acquiring something nasty
The nails themselves are infected, which leaves open the possibility of septic shock, which means I won't be coming home with the same number of limbs and/or IQ I went in with
The surgery is minor - the sort trusted to a junior surgeon...
The surgery is routine - things that are routine have more chance of going wrong because routine breeds complacency. I've done it myself with computers.

I will post the gory details if I make it out.

Any chance of before and after pics as I need somethingto cheer me up ?

Raistlin · 30-05-2005, 23:03

I went to hospital a few years back to have my wisdom teeth out.

When I woke up I started patting my cheeks to see how swolen they were, an discovered something hanging from my ear.

When I asked what it was I was told that it was one of the machines that they use to check you are still alive. Apparently it had been attached to my finger but, during the procedure, I had coughed so much that it had fallen off.

Apparently there were about 5 seconds after this thing fell off where I was apparently flatlining, according to their machines I was dead.

Oh how we laughed.....

Roy MM · 30-05-2005, 23:03

K i'm 59 up to last year i had never had any sort of operation, not even knocked out for teeth work, well i was rushed in last April with severe pains in my left leg................six operations later i came home minus the leg, so my advice do not delay any treatment it could save your life.

**Paul** · 30-05-2005, 23:04

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

I will post the gory details if I make it out.

Well you're not likely to if you don't ....

greencreeper · 30-05-2005, 23:04

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

Of course you will make it out - only the good die young, remember!

Thanks!

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

And as soon as you can walk or hobble about the ward you will be out - someone else will be waiting in the wings for your bed! And at least that way there is less chance of getting an infection (and less hospital food).

That's true. I won't be eating hospital food - seen one too many documentaries

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

They don't let the really junior doctors loose with operations - you should get someone with a bit of experience at least! And even if you do, I think most junior doctors start their new posts in August - so they would have had a few months experience by now, anyway.

That's comforting

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Originally Posted by dilligaf1701

As for personal stories of horror - well I had an operation on my privates and that wasn't fun.

My dad had the snip and it went wrong. His nuts were a shade of blue/black apparently. A black doctor examined him and said he was fine - my dad, tactful as ever, remarked that maybe for him they were

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Any chance of before and after pics as I need somethingto cheer me up ?

Thanks. Not much to see actually - just a bit red and puffy

You'll have seen and smelt far worse I imagine.

dilli-theclaw · 30-05-2005, 23:06

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

That's true. I won't be eating hospital food - seen one too many documentaries

The one thing that was brilliant when I was in hospital the last few times was the food..

maybe it was soylent green

greencreeper · 30-05-2005, 23:07

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

When I woke up I started patting my cheeks to see how swolen they were, an discovered something hanging from my ear.

Either your brains or your signature will be on this morphine script before the day is out, huh

I've been to oral surgery - scary, scary stuff.
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K i'm 59 up to last year i had never had any sort of operation, not even knocked out for teeth work, well i was rushed in last April with severe pains in my left leg................six operations later i came home minus the leg, so my advice do not delay any treatment it could save your life.

DVT or something??

Roy MM · 30-05-2005, 23:11

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DVT or something??

Vascular disease.

Chimaera · 30-05-2005, 23:12

I had my varicose veins stripped several years ago and the surgical ward was full (yes FULL!) of old ladies that had either or both of their legs amputated - they were having wheelchair races up and down the ward! Every time the nurses came to take more details they were adamant I was having a leg removed too - you can guess what a state I was in by the time I was wheeled down for the op. When I woke up the first thing I did was feel down for my legs - but the strong painkillers had set in and I couldn't feel them, or wiggle my toes. I was nearly hysterical by the time they got me back to the ward - and I wouldn't shut up until they had demonstrated that both my legs were intact!