My mum ( 92 ,lives on own ,very limited eyesight ) has horrendous tophaceous gout on her fingers .
Recently she has had problems with the tophi getting infected.
I know and have told nurse from surgery that mum is not cleaning her hands thoroughly enough after going to toilet .
Anyway I visit yesterday ,very worried by look of one finger . ( horrified more like ).
Get her up to surgery ,GP lances ,nurse dresses .
I agree to re dress today ,nurse to visit tomorrow .
When I redressed today I noticed and cleaned away the faeces all around the cuticle . This wasn't fresh ,the dressing was on top of it .
But shouldn't they have seen that yesterday ..?
Could it be that they were confident that the antibiotics they prescribed would mean that it didn't really matter about the s**t ?