Can anyone tell me if we need to go to a&e or not?

[VivaLeThrustBadger]

Gut instinct says no but its not my kid so am fretting slightly more than if my child.

One of dd's friends has fallen in our garden and cut the back of her head. Right in the hair so can't steri strip it. It's about an inch long, about 2mm deep and gaping about 2-3mm.

Bit of blood, but has stopped bleeding. I've washed it and put antiseptic on it. Child says it doesn't hurt, she doesn't have a headache, doesn't feel sick, didnt loose consciousness. She says she doesn't feel she needs a Dr. She's 13 and probably thinks I'm fussing.

She's staying here all night.

I understand now, Out Of Hours, I thought you were just saying a random 'ooh'...

Ask noisy baby mum a few questions so we can decide if she is a mnetter.

I quite like people watching in a&e.

I like to try and imagine ridiculous scenarios behind the injuries. Hmm, gash to finger.... he was feeding his pet piranha and the next door neighbour was doing diy when his drill slipped right through the very thin wall and shattered the glass tank. As he was rescuing the fish he got bitten...

The last time I was there very clumsy DD a very drunk man in boxer shorts was escorted in by two policemen. It was 10am!

DD had her head glued after coming off her bike. She then proceeded to walk into the glass exit door of the a&e cutting open her eyebrow which required yet more glue...... The nurse who saw it happen said she would make a very detailed report for our file just in case her injury list got long enough for some outside interest :)

Does the noisy baby mum have a naice scarf? Or a packet of pom bears sticking out of her pocket?

Thirteen quid? Pah. That doctor whose space you've nicked dedicated her life to the NHS don't you know? Some people...

I didn't really get any good people watching in A&E that last time we went. We took DS when his face was covered in a rash reminiscent of pestilential boils, and I worried about sitting too close to anybody, so couldn't overhear much.

CharlieEcho - hahahahhahah. Sorry. Your poor DD, but hahahahahahahah. I just 'ruined' X Factor for DH by laughing so hard at that post.

I was once in A&E and the next door cubicle had a man who we there because he had started to look like a hamster. It was fascinating listening in. LOADS of doctory people came in for a look. Of course when we left I had to have a little peek round the curtain. And he was right! I have never before or since seen a more hamstery looking man.

Been called through now. Just waiting for nurse to come with glue.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1866862-to-have-used-the-mobility-scooter
Fuck - it is not working - everyone is being naice.

Sorry Viva

Anyone fancy stirring it up?

:) I know bless her.

She also ended up in a&e after running over her own finger whilst wearing her heelies.....

Wish we had a hamster man.

Your DD sounds like me as a kid, Charlie. I hoovered my finger once and it has been wonky ever since. Try not to let her out of the house too often.

Charlie when I was about 7 I fell over at school, went to a&e and was told I had sprained my wrist. Got bandaged up and walked out the hospital doors, tripped on the pavement, went back in, left again 2 hours later in a plaster cast.

When ds broke his nose when he was 16 we had to go to a&e and got sent to paeds because he was 16. They all looked in a terrible state and we thought we would be hours - you know arrive at 7 and leave at 1am. DH was with us and I looked at all the tinies holding their head and puking and told DH to get the bus home because we would be hours and there was no point us all sitting there esp as dd was home alone and would be worrying.

We were called as soon as he went through the doors and the doctor said "you look straightforward and you're too big to sit with this lot for long". All was well - no damage to the Septum. And we were home before DH .

Hope she's alright Beaver xx.

I was the subject of the A&E people watchers a few weeks ago. We took DS with a bloodied and bandaged head. He was 'passed out' in my arms. DH and I were chatting and joking, saying things like 'thank god he's finally quietened down', getting food from the machines and reading the paper like nothing was wrong. We could feel the rest of the waiting room hoiking their judgy pants, which just made us snigger even more, because...

He'd hurt his head at a family place managed by a nurse, been bandaged up by a paramedic and seen by a consultant several hours earlier. We were back to have stiches put in, and, scary as it was, we knew he was 'fine' and had spent the last two hours driving around trying to get him to sleep and taking his mind off food (because he needed to be sedated)

she had a possible fracture on her arm once -she slipped in the bathroom. The sent us home with a soft splint thing to attend the fracture clinic in a couple of days. In that time she tripped over the hoover and run up the driveway in the dark smack bang into the wheelie bin that hadn't been put back.

Not surprisingly, the second set of xrays at the clinic showed a clear fracture.

She want's to be a vet when she grows up. I've begged her to stay out of zoos with large dangerous animals just in case :)

There's another A&E thread tonight too. Ive got a story over there that I CBA to retype so I'll see if I can link.

Fishfingers I'll go and be gratuitously rude on your thread if you want, just to see if it helps?

I remember sitting in A&E with a bleeding head when I was young. Eventually we just went home as it stopped bleeding. I'm beginning to think that my DParents weren't the most medically responsible as my DM also ignored me when I said I thought I had broken my nose. The broken nose was confirmed this year (maybe 25 years later). Perhaps the mistake I made was being injured while my parents were responsible for me rather than friends' parents.

I have made the heady heights of being 'shitty' on Fishfingers thread but can't go to bed without saying that actually I hope your foot heals soon and obviously don't break the other one

Viva I hope the glueing goes well and you get your back comfy soon.

Night all

Back home, head has been glued.

She seems fine. I'm going to have to ring her mum on Monday or tomorrow evening and grovel. The kids were barrel walking when it happened. She fell off the barrel.