upsidedown
Tour Winner
Last Friday all was going well.
Won the fiddle at the golf club, checked out how the builders were getting on with the renovations.
Good supper and glass of red then at 8.30 pm, 'Um finger I pricked on carpet gripper 3 days ago is throbbing a bit'
Took painkillers
9.00 pm , pretty cold here best put on a jumper, feel yuk
9.30 pm, bed , dressing gown and freezing
10.15 pm wife comes to bed to find me running high temperature.
11.00 pm in A&E, nobody in there waltzed straight through.
Started throwing up, saw first Doc, looked at prick on end of finger asked how and advised go home with two Panadol.
Wife goes ballistic ( Nurse all her life and matron for 26 years )
Second doc saw finger and immediately diagnosed Flexor tendon infection http://orthopedics.about.com/od/fingerconditions/qt/Flexor-Tendon-Infections.htm.
Admitted straight away.
Threw up all night then surgery under General on Sat, intravienous antibiotics and painkillers
Monday another operation , more intravienous antibodies.
Tuesday , consultant took bandage off offending finger ( Right index) Yuk, . Must start trying to move it.IV Ab's
Up to Friday getting little more movement everyday, enough to be discharged this afternoon.Oral AB's now for at least a week
Prognosis ,Weeks of attending specialist hand therapy, may never get full closing grip on right hand, may well need skin grafts and most important NO golf for possibly 8 weeks, ARGH.
So beware of small pricks, they can lead to all sorts of complications.
Many many thanks to all those who helped me on the road to get better in the Princess Royal , Telford
PS, Consultant confirmed this would have been far far more serious had the wife and the second Dr not picked it and I'd come home .
Won the fiddle at the golf club, checked out how the builders were getting on with the renovations.
Good supper and glass of red then at 8.30 pm, 'Um finger I pricked on carpet gripper 3 days ago is throbbing a bit'
Took painkillers
9.00 pm , pretty cold here best put on a jumper, feel yuk
9.30 pm, bed , dressing gown and freezing
10.15 pm wife comes to bed to find me running high temperature.
11.00 pm in A&E, nobody in there waltzed straight through.
Started throwing up, saw first Doc, looked at prick on end of finger asked how and advised go home with two Panadol.
Wife goes ballistic ( Nurse all her life and matron for 26 years )
Second doc saw finger and immediately diagnosed Flexor tendon infection http://orthopedics.about.com/od/fingerconditions/qt/Flexor-Tendon-Infections.htm.
Admitted straight away.
Threw up all night then surgery under General on Sat, intravienous antibiotics and painkillers
Monday another operation , more intravienous antibodies.
Tuesday , consultant took bandage off offending finger ( Right index) Yuk, . Must start trying to move it.IV Ab's
Up to Friday getting little more movement everyday, enough to be discharged this afternoon.Oral AB's now for at least a week
Prognosis ,Weeks of attending specialist hand therapy, may never get full closing grip on right hand, may well need skin grafts and most important NO golf for possibly 8 weeks, ARGH.
So beware of small pricks, they can lead to all sorts of complications.
Many many thanks to all those who helped me on the road to get better in the Princess Royal , Telford
PS, Consultant confirmed this would have been far far more serious had the wife and the second Dr not picked it and I'd come home .
Makes me feel bad for moaning about my elbow though lol. Hope the recovery goes well
