Everything was fine until...

[hunnymonster]

Positive that the doc didn't don the black cap before speaking about it :lol:

 

[Blyth Spirit]

Well back from the Docs with more antibiotics than you can shake a stick at.

Pus in Boots?

 

[andyjreid]

Well back from the Docs with more antibiotics than you can shake a stick at.

Pus in Boots?

I think that pints or gallons would be a more correct measurement than "boots"

 

[Blyth Spirit]

Wait till you get to enjoy (manually inserted!) bowel management systems, catheters and drainage bags; tack on an NJ tube, a Hickman line, a central line and a touch of dyalisis...full life support - now that's what I call taking care of business. I'm on a nostalgia trip, sorry.

:lol:

You'll be fine young man, give it a couple of weeks and you'll be laughing at this!

 

[andyjreid]

:lol:

You'll be fine young man, give it a couple of weeks and you'll be laughing at this!

You're right but what has upset me more is how the nurse kept on referring to the "drainage" as "toffee" thats gona and spoiled toffee for me now.

 

[hunnymonster]

It's her accent - she meant tofu - that ought to be less of a problem :mrgreen:

 

[andyjreid]

Ah I like that, the chances of me ever eating tofu are minimal. I'd only eat it if it was the last food-ish substance left on the earth

 

[andyjreid]

4 times a day for the next week. Apparently this, along with a surgical dressing, will heal an abcess.

Yum :?

 

[hunnymonster]

Think yourself lucky you're not in France, they'd all be suppositories (they're obsessed with them)

 

[andyjreid]

Think yourself lucky you're not in France, they'd all be suppositories (they're obsessed with them)

Yea so I've heard.

"Ah but Doctor I have a headache"
"Stick this up yer arse and ye'll feel better"

I remember reading somewhere that up the "wrong way" is the quickest way for anything to be absorbed into the bloodstream without an injection.......*titter*

 

[Paul_D]

Can't they use local anaesthetic for these things?? I had a 'fatty deposit' in my abdomen some years back. It was like a hard lump under the surface with a tiny blackhead top. They removed it in hospital with local anaesthetic, and no pain was felt.

Sadly local anaesthetics don't work in a low pH environment. ie They're no use in abscesses. You can spray them with ethyl chloride and lance them but you can't use standard local anaesthetics.

 

[SoapAlchemist]

Can't they use local anaesthetic for these things?? I had a 'fatty deposit' in my abdomen some years back. It was like a hard lump under the surface with a tiny blackhead top. They removed it in hospital with local anaesthetic, and no pain was felt.

Sadly local anaesthetics don't work in a low pH environment. ie They're no use in abscesses. You can spray them with ethyl chloride and lance them but you can't use standard local anaesthetics.

Well, you learn something new every day. I'm hopeless with pain, so sincerely hope I neve get one of these dastardly sounding abcess thingeys.