I'm. Sat in A&E. And a lesson for ALL

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2weeks ago I had a fall from horse. Hurt the outside of my hand.
As we do I've ignored it. Until friend threatened not to speak to me

So went to GP's. Sent for X-ray and oops I've oh fractured it :(

I won't mention the fact I'm a medic haha

So lesson is do NOT ignore injuries
 
I'm currently ignoring my bashed up knee, fell onto the edge of a flagstone step about 4 months ago and it's still black and painful. I did take myself to A&E when it happened but the wait was horrendous so I hobbled home!
 
I've done that, only with a 3 broken ribs and a broken coccyx, took me 3 weeks and only went when my OH dragged me in the car! I was making a crunching sound when I sat down :O
 
Flip, you're really not having a good day, OP, are you? Hope you haven't mangled it more in the meantime. Vibes for strength and a good outcome with your decision today.
 
I ignored a sore ankle for a whole day after a horse reared back over on me. until a friend dragged me A&E. I went just to prove them wrong. Came out in a backslab with an appointment for the fracture clinic the next day.

Grrr
 
I did tib and fib landing awkwardly on dismount (after breaking them 6 months earlier slipping in mud). Drove home and then drove to A&E. Got a serious boll***ing from the doc. Plaster and surgery followed lol
 
Tiddlypom said:
I come from a family of medics. They're all very dedicated and conscientious with their patients, but when it comes to their own health all of that goes out of the window!

Hope you mend soon, OP.
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Me too I'm afraid.Dish out advice and guidance all the time,but avoid attending to my own health unless absolutely required.Hate going to the GP as have no time to fit my day in.I am good at figuring out maladies as it comes with the job so i home treat unless i do need prescribed treatment.
 
I've been ignoring a dodgy hip/leg for about a year. I've been limping around for a good 6 months (sometimes not so much, but a lot of the time it's very pronounced), but as the pain comes and goes it's easy to just forget about it.

My OH has made me book an appointment with my GP as we were traveling home from a day out last weekend and I was in agony, shooting pains all the way down my leg. Appointment is tomorrow, so we shall see...

At least you're on the mend, OP! Better late than never, eh?
 
I ended up walking around for a week with a broken arm!

I orignally broke it via a horse fall and both bones were plated but it was taking forever to heal and about a year later (I was in school at the time) at Christmas we were setting up for the Christmas concert. I was putting up music stands, one was really stiff and I lost my temper with it (like you do!) and forced it, over extended my arm and broke the plates which broke both the bones....went really dizzy for a few moments and then refused to believe what I knew I had just done and carried on! Did 3 concerts, went into school - finally gave in after the big lump on my arm wasn't going down and went to the gp who sent me to the hospital pretty sharpish!

Came out of hospital on Christmas Eve! :eek:

Hope you aren't feeling too sore! xx
 
I wish I could ignore mine!!
Took a tumble from my youngster yesterday, concussed and sore neck and back. Feeling ok today considering, until my 5 year old nags me to take him to the park this afternoon. Decided to roll over onto my knees to get up off the grass and somehow lent my body on my left arm and felt a large cracking of my ribs!!!
Now in agony waiting for hubby to come home :-(
 
About 2 months ago my horse bucked me off and I landed flat on my back I was in a huge amount of pain but since I could move I thought I was fine so I picked my self up and walked back to the house. Thought it was just badly bruised or maybe I had pulled a muscle so tried to ignore it but over the next 10-20 mins my back got worse and worse so my mum drove my to A+E turns out I had broken it in two places :eek: and had to do 5 weeks bed rest!! I've now been out of hospital 3 weeks :) and I am currently writing this while in a back brace which I will have for the next 3 months! The doctor said that if I had just fallen with the amount of pain that i was he would have just sent me home but due to the amount of force a horse can throw you to the ground with he took x rays just to be on the safe side :/ . Defiantly always take a horse injury seriously :)
 
I feel for you , I'm currently in hospital where I have been for z6 weeks after falling off a bike, dieecting the wall of an artery in my necker suiting in a stroke. I'm 3. This is not good - at all xx
 
oh dear oh dear, we are all as bad as one another!

healing vibes to all of you x x x

MrsMozart said:
Hope you heal well!

I tripped down a two inch step on Saturday.

Just back from A&E. Left leg in a cast.

Ho hum.
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Oh MM that is just such bad luck, but I will tell my non horsey friends about it. They may ease up on me
Ho hum is also one of my favourite sayings, I wonder why?
 
Did the same. Tripped in the stable and hit the wall with my hand - I do vaguely remember hearing something going "crack"! Carried on putting rugs on, sweeping up, emptied skip, fed and did hay. Popped to my sister's on the way home for a coffee, by the time I got there I had a weird lump on my wrist. She suggested I pop to A&E so I drove from Windsor to Ascot and popped into Heatherwood Hospital. 40 minutes later, I was in a backslab! Broken scaphoid and wrist! Oopsie! I then had to ring my sister to come and get me as I couldn't drive myself home. Cue 7 weeks in plaster!
 
When i was about 11 (about 25 years ago) i fell off my pony and 'hurt' my arm. Knowing mum wouldn't let me ride i chose not to tell her. It wasn't easy hiding what pain i was in from mum though it eventually healed. Nearly 25 years later i fell over and broke that same arm. Docs told me, in front of mum as she was there at the time, its in the same place where its previously been broken. Mum looking bemused was like 'no she has never broken her arm'....time to come clean. She couldn't really tell me off but wasn't impressed that i kept it a secret all these years and still continued riding at the time with what was actually broken arm!
 
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Hope everyone feels better soon :)
I got kicked in the chest last winter. I carried on riding and doing all yard work for four days. It wasn't till I was sat at home in pain and struggling to breathe that OH made me go to A&E where an X-ray confirmed broken ribs :(
 
Second this! Just home from an overnighter with my daughter who was admitted yesterday 3 weeks after her fall Xc schooling. She had an infection. Lesson learnt however little the scrape clean clean clean it! It's not just horses who are prone to nasty blown up infected knees!
 
Horsey folk a tough lot and most I know have that "just get on with it" mentality

I hurt my back 18 months ago team chasing. **** at remembering course, approached hedge thinking it was a drop, it wasn't, leaning too far back and impact on landing sent shock wave up my spine winding me in the process. Carried on, as you do, but then couldn't get up for 3 days and was sick with the pain. Did I get it checked out? Of course not! Fast forward to few weeks ago, got kind of squished between my 2 horses whilst getting off (riding and leading) top of back popped and had some weird sensation in my neck and shoulders so went and got checked out. After hours on spinal board x rays showed fracture to T12 so ended up on ortho ward with surgery a possibility. Surgeon reviewed x ray and turned out fracture was old injury - most likely from incident 18 months ago


Scary thing is after the original injury, I carried on team chasing as soon as I could move!! Doesn't bear thinking about damage I could have done if I'd had a fall - total idiot!

As you say OP, we should all take these horse related injuries seriously really. And let's face it A&E staff are well used to seeing us anyway :p
 
soulfull said:
Sat waiting to be seen again

2weeks ago I had a fall from horse. Hurt the outside of my hand.
As we do I've ignored it. Until friend threatened not to speak to me

So went to GP's. Sent for X-ray and oops I've oh fractured it :(

I won't mention the fact I'm a medic haha

So lesson is do NOT ignore injuries
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That made me laugh (not the injury part tho) - hope it's better soon

undergroundoli said:
Is it just the ones I know or are medical profesionals cavalier about their health/structural integraty?

Hope you're feeling better soon.
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Nurse and doctors make the worst patients ever!
 
fidgeuk said:
I'm currently ignoring my bashed up knee, fell onto the edge of a flagstone step about 4 months ago and it's still black and painful. I did take myself to A&E when it happened but the wait was horrendous so I hobbled home!
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I got bucked off, landed on my knee in April and its only in the last 2 weeks its stopped being really painful, I can't bend it too much still but I can straighten it out! so hope you heel quicker than I did!
 
mynutmeg said:
That made me laugh (not the injury part tho) - hope it's better soon



Nurse and doctors make the worst patients ever!
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:) happy to make you laugh. Yeah we are really bad. My son is a paramedic and he is just the same. Interestingly his dad who is a bobby is just the opposite lol
 
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