Genuinely don't know what I should have done.
I sprained my ankle badly on Thursday night when away camping, could move my toes so knew it wasn't broken. It was only me and DS so no way to get to A&E other than calling an ambulance which I felt wasn't warranted. I was probably 50 miles from A&E and didn't want to call a taxi, sit in A&E with DS for hours then be sent back to the tent in the early hours of the morning.
I waited overnight for the pain to subside, called 111 in the morning to be told it was only for emergencies and there was a 40 mins wait to speak to someone. I decided a sprained ankle wasn't critical so I wrapped my ankle and drove home. This I now realise would have invalidated my insurance if I'd had an accident but luckily I got home fine. Tried the doctors but couldn't get through. My local A &E on a Friday night is a war zone so I didn't want to go and wait for hours, a sprained ankle would have been absolutely the lowest priority.
Then it was the weekend, still not an emergency and the local A&E was on black (critical emergencies only) so I waited til Monday to go to minor injuries only to get a massive row from the nurse for not going earlier and for driving. X-ray confirms it's not broken just badly sprained and very bruised.
If I had pitched up at A&E I would have felt like a fraud as although it was bloody sore it wasn't life threatening. Same over the weekend and so iny mins the only thing to do was wait til Monday for minor injuries.
My question is, what should I have done?? We were about 300 miles from home so DH couldn't get down, there were buses and trains the next day that he could have got but this would have taken over 8 hours and we had to check out of the campsite. And when I woke up I could move my ankle enough to drive.
IABU - I should have gone to A&E immediately
IANBU - it was fine to wait for minor injuries