how do i get to A&E?

[hurtmyankle]

not AIBU but posting for traffic

I've fallen over about half an hour ago and heard my ankle crunch, can't put weight on it and in a lot of pain, taken paracetamol and got it raised but really am in unbelievable pain and think I need to go to A&E, my DP says i've just fallen over and i'm being silly but i'm not so He's gone to work.

I can't get a taxi and have no family here to call to drive me so how do I get to A&E? If I ring 111 can they arrange transport? The hospital is only a 2 minute drive from me but I can't walk what is the best thing to do?
Sorry for asking here but my DP is useless and my family are all away

Sorry about your injury but pleased you made it in and got seen.

Hope you're not going to have too much trouble getting home?

Sorry about your broken ankle OP.

Icklepickle what do you actually say when you get out to people like that?

OP, glad you've got it sorted, though sorry it's broken. Hope you get home ok and your OH feels horribly guilty.

I hope it heals quickly!

Its funny how when you were in agony and very worried that you weren't best at lateral thinking about local friends who could help out hopefully you'll get back to fracture clinic ok?

"liz people lie. The call was for an entrapment which had led to query broken hand.

Turns out she’d caught her nail in her purse and it had broken slightly."

Ah, I see. That's seriously shitty.

Awww... I hope DP is kinder when he gets home and finds out it's broken! [tea]

Of course it’s not broken! User said it wasn’t!

Sorry, OP.

music sadly the majority of my day or night is people like this. It’s why so many people leave the profession. I’ve worked my arse off to get my degree and experience and can see how desperately underfunded the NHS is and 90% of the calls I go to don’t require an ambulance.

It’s normally a case of. “Why have you called an ambulance today” they explain, I give them a serious face and explain an ambulance was not required and they could be endangering others lives by wasting our time and get on my way.

Some of the biggest waste of times
A very hungry man - he had food in the house!
A lady who couldn’t get calpol in to her 7 year old who had growing pains
At least 2 x colds a shift (old/vulnerable people excluded)
A guy who was ‘testing our response time’ and was absolutely fine

And breathe, all the people who’s lives we genuinely save or babies we deliver or old people we help make it worth it

Sorry it's broken, OP. I thought it might be, it looked just like my mate's did when she broke it falling over in the snow (having a snowball fight while pissed). Hope you're as lucky as she was, it healed quickly without any after effects.

And I hope your DH is suitably ashamed at having left you to deal with a broken ankle, on your own, when you didn't have cash for a taxi. You're due 6 weeks of being waited on, I reckon.

Oh op that sounds painful

But I really think you need to consider this as a turning point. Your dp is a cunt.

Icklepickle you have the patience of a saint for not leaving these idiots in such a condition that they actually do require an ambulance

MadMags is right - it can’t possibly be broken! I hope you told the doctor that it was clearly only a sprain because someone on the Internet said so.

(Hope it all heals well, OP)

And then my poor Mum who two weeks ago lay on the floor after a fall and call to the Ambulance service, for 7hrs. Then waited two to get into the hospital when she finally arrived, another 5 to actually see the Dr and two whole weeks before they diagnosed her broken back...

How is a broken ankle going to affect you in ordinary life, OP? Can you get to work or do your usual things?

Well you can't drive, you can't walk without crutches as usually its non weight bearing, means you can't even take a cuppa in to watch the telly

Hope you're not there all night op.

Home now. Rang DPs work and told them he had to come home. He's feeling very guilty now but first said " the fall didn't look that bad so I thought you were fine ". He's set up the living room so everything's within reach and made me a cuppa but I do need to rethink things

Aw, that's a great update (about dp not it being broken!) 😊 I hope you heal quickly 💐

Where is User now after insisting it was only a sprained ankle?!

I worked in a ski resort years ago and a guy fell off a first floor balcony on to the driveway below - pissed - at the end of season party. He got up and climbed three flights of stairs to the top floor and got into bed.
Next morning he couldn't move at all. Had to bang on walls to get the attention of other people. Turned out he had shattered bones in his back, spent weeks in a French hospital and had to be repatriated back to UK.

So even with a broken back you can sometimes still get up and move initially!

@Icklepickle101 I just can't understand why though, why someone would like to get a paramedic out about a broken nail?!

I watched the ambulance series that was on a few months ago and it shocked me at the amount of hoax calls. Plus the ones where there is some sort of mental health issue where they keep calling repeatedly. The first thoughts are to stop responding but I think someone in the documentary said you always have to respond because one time it could actually be a serious issue.

Anyway OP, glad you're home and DP is looking after you now.

Ouch. Heal quickly and well!

Please rest it. I managed to make mine worse - it was in an aircast and I continued decorating (up and down ladders), and had to yomp across fields to deal with my horses. Ended up on sofa rest for two weeks.

Sorry to hear it is broken. Sounds like you will need some waiting on for a while.

Schlingtung - that sounds horrendous.

You do an amazing job and must have a lot of patience, especially when faced with calls like that one.

Sorry to hear that it's broken OP. I did the same when I slipped on ice a few years back. My top tips:.
Keep it elevated - it will heal better and your toes won't go black..!
Buy a large steel vacuum flask with a carrying strap - you can transport hot drinks easily.!! (Plus it comes in useful afterwards)
See if you can get hold of a 'grabber' - it's really irritating when you drop something and can't reach it

OP I am sorry it is broken. I did a similar thing last week. My ankle made a horrible crunching sound so thought it was broken. Trip to A&E at 11pm, luckily DH was able to drive. Advised to go A&E by 111. Had to take DS as didn't want to leave him on his own at night. A&E was definitely an education for him .
Mine wasn't broken, just torn ligaments, but they x-rayed it twice to make sure. Very painful and now very bruised

Glad you got seen OP. Hope you can rest up now!

Absolute horseshit that breaks render you a gibbering wreck. I went to
School for three days with a broken arm and I only discovered I'd broken my foot (stepped on it in heels while drunk) six weeks later, when I mentioned the strange bump in my foot to the doctor during a routine check up. It was bruised and sore but I never stopped running on it or wearing heels. Broke a toe in November and while it nipped a bit initially, I was in heels later that week (yes, my feet are a lovely sight). We all have different pain thresholds and not all breaks are equal.