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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

to want DP to go see his doctor?

38 replies

ginmakesitallok · 07/02/2011 19:38

We finally got round to sorting out garden on Saturday. DP got jagged on the ankle by a jaggy plant. Lots of blood, but stopped bleeding pretty quickly. He's been in pain ever since and his ankle has swollen quite a bit. He having difficulty walking on it and can't drive on it. I've told him to go to Drs or A&E tomorrow - but like a lot of men he's very reluctant!

So AIBU? Or should be be trying to get some help now??

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ceebs05 · 07/02/2011 19:40

YANBU he needs to get it seen to - sounds like it could be infected

ConnorTraceptive · 07/02/2011 19:42

My uncle did something similar and well to cutra long story short died of blood poisening a week later

thisisyesterday · 07/02/2011 19:43

no yanbu
why don't you call the OOH doctor yourself?

Northernlurker · 07/02/2011 19:43

A&E - sounds like a reaction or infection. He needs to be seen or could lose his leg or his life - no exaggeration!

Original poster
ginmakesitallok · 07/02/2011 19:52

He's on phone to NHS24 right now - playing things down as normal....

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cumfy · 07/02/2011 19:55

They didn't invent antibiotics so that DP's leg can fall off.

A&E pronto.

CURLYMAMMA · 07/02/2011 19:56

A relative got septicemia from a prick from a xmas tree and nearly died. Took ages to get over it. I'd get it seen sooner rather than later.

Original poster
ginmakesitallok · 07/02/2011 19:57

they'll try to phone him back within 3 hours... No way I'll persuade him to go to A&E - both kids in bed, no buses, £20 each way in a taxi... If they phone back and tell him to go to A&E I can get granny to come up and stay with the kids while I take him. Why oh why doesn't he sort these things out during the day?????

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CURLYMAMMA · 07/02/2011 19:59

Could a friend run him? Saves you waiting til 11 and then going.

3littlefrogs · 07/02/2011 20:01

I am a nurse. I say A&E. Tell him I said so.

Hope he gets sorted out. I agree with you though - why don't they deal with things at the earliest opportunity.

BlueCollie · 07/02/2011 20:08

A and E on a monday night will be incredibly busy. I'm an A and E nurse it is one of the worst days/nights you could ever work. Just telling you this because if you do go take a book and make sure granny has somewhere to sleep Grin
Does sound like he needs to see a Dr though and sooner rather than later. NHS (re) direct will tell you to go to A and E. Just go up now don't wait for phone call back as it sounds like he needs a dose of IV antibiotics.

ConnorTraceptive · 07/02/2011 20:12

Don't wait 3 hours to be told to go to A&E.

Honestly what is it with men? DH is upstairs in agony with a tooth that he has done nothing about for weeks. Now I've got to suffer his mood because the dentist can't see him straight away. Prick!

Original poster
ginmakesitallok · 07/02/2011 20:13

well he's saying that as he doesn't have a temp or anything it's not septicaemia. His ankle is swollen, warm to touch and his foot is a bit swollen. FFs

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Mahraih · 07/02/2011 20:14

YANBU, at all.

Good luck getting him to go though - DP has had some sort of infection on his foot (that isn't athlete's foot, he's tried that medication) for THREE MONTHS and hasn't gone yet.

Ridiculous. It sounds like it might be infected - make him as paranoid as possible, then maybe he'll go.

Northernlurker · 07/02/2011 21:27

Oh ffs! Tell him you'll leave him unless he gets his rancid, septic arse (and foot) to A&E! Or call his mother and she can tell him?

onimolap · 07/02/2011 21:37

The absolute Red Flag symptom is if there is any sign at all of redness tracking from the immediate site of the wound up his leg. If there is, you simply must go straight to A&E.

NHS Direct will probably tell you to go too. When would it be least covenant to disturb Granny?

Original poster
ginmakesitallok · 07/02/2011 21:52

thanks all - still waiting for them to call back - reasoning is that if they thought it was serious they wouldn't have taken this long. Onimolap - just checked, no redness going up his leg - bruising below and swollen all round, but no redness.

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Northernlurker · 07/02/2011 22:06

onimolap I think you meant 'least inconvenient time' didn't you? Grin

OP - your dh needs to look at his leg and ask himself 'is that what it normally looks like'? No? 'Does it in fact lokk like a decaying sausage?' Yes?

pirateparty · 07/02/2011 22:18

Agree he needs to be seen tonight, also he possibly may need a tetenus booster if appropriate.

onimolap · 07/02/2011 22:41

Northernlurker: yup! I'm on a predictive keyboard, and it really does compound sloppy typing sometimes!

The reason for looking out for tracking is that it means infection is moving elsewhere in his body, and that is potentially very serious.

cumfy · 07/02/2011 22:42

Have they phoned back ?

loopylou6 · 07/02/2011 22:46

A&E now my bet is he has celluitus (sp) and needs antibiotics ASAP.

cumfy · 07/02/2011 23:16

Thing is it sounds rather like a sprained ankle... except OP has pretty much excluded that.

Must have been a pretty vicious plant!

zipzap · 07/02/2011 23:27

You're assuming that they will ring back more quickly if there is something really wrong - but there's no guarantee that they'll do that - there might be 10 people in the queue in front of you that have rung in with severe pain in the chest queries that have taken up a lot of time and if your dh downplayed it to them he might have been shifted down the list tonight.

might be that on a different night when there is only one person in the queue in front of him that is worried about a small spot on their nose or something that they would be able to get back to him quickly...

Not making this very clear sorry, but I don't think that assuming that there is a correlation between the time taken for nhs direct to call back and the seriousness of the problem is necessarily a good assumption, particularly when this thread seems to be overwhelmingly in favour of the need to get down to a&e sooner rather than later!

ThisIsANiceCage · 07/02/2011 23:36

Get granny over now, on grounds of not leaving it too late to disturb her.

Once she's at yours, you might as well go to A&E anyway.