erm where do I begin??? l At the beginning??

I went down to Portsmouth in the end for a relatively quiet new years eve (well that was the plan!!). As youd expect every pub was jam packed so i settled in one where i had a view so i could easily see the fireworks for midnight.

Being a non drinker, i still occasionally went up to the bar for my diet cokes!! Unfortunately on one occassion i leaned on a piece of broken glass in water and swung arm across the bar while bored waiting to be served only to suddenly notice the sharp pain as i dragged the piece of glass - nice!! and always the pain is too late to stop the inevitable.

What appeared to be a minor gash in the dim lighting was quickly dispatched with a dressing from the bars first aid kit and i promptly carried on the evening, seeing in the new year prior to making a swift departure for a snack then bed.

All thus far so good until i noticed a small spot of blood coming throught the dressing. Duly getting my car first aid kit i decided to change the dressing before bed so hopefully all would be nicely scabbed over by the morning. Thus far all is good, until i change the dressing!!!! Now the cut must have been a lot deeper than i first thought and removing the bandage must have disturbed a damaged vessel or a blood clot as the wound started to bleed profusely!!!

Ok no problem!! simple first aid, lots of dressings and lots of pressureand sure enough soon enough the bleeding will stop, right?? WRONG!!!! Ok so by this point i whack a first field dressing on it (large wound pad for big injuries - like getting shot!) and jump in the car to go to A+E to get it sorted.

In the ten minute drive id filled the dressing which had by now spilled blood all over my leg and torso due to arm movement driving - doh!!! Oh well all is not lost just a "minor" clean up in the morning and a prewash and all clothing should be fine. On arrival its 0230 in the morning and A+E is jam packed with mostly drunks with various fight, trip, fall injuries and even some people under arrest in handcuffs awaiting treatment (somebody had fun!).

The sister comes out and puts on another bandage for me so that while i wait for my turn i dont drip on the floor!!! after about 2 hours of waiting and a questioning session i finally get seen to to have my wound dressed. Luckily by then it had mostly stopped bleeding and after some special clotting bandage pad thing was used they sterri-strip me arm, bandage me up and send me on my way.

All seems good so far! a minor inconvenience and a late night but i can sleep in so it doesnt matter!! So eventually i crawl into bed about 5am looking forward to some well needed sleep!

Then i wake up around 0830 ish feeling rather strange and i felt a strange running water sensation down side of my chest. It clicked to me in my sleepy state that my bandage must be leaking slightly and that was a small drip that had run down my side, so i sit up and turn my light on to be greeted by this horror:



after the initial shock subsides and some initial emergency first aid to prevent me covering the floor in blood (Big Bandage AKA bath towel!!) i quickly dress and clear the bedding into the bath noticing how literally i was laying in a pool of blood that had soaked throught the two blankets under the sheet and into the mattress!!!

Off to A+E again!!!!

This time its a little quieter!! but still its a good hour until i can be seen. Unfortunately my trusting Bath towel reaches its limits without me noticeing (still half asleep!!!) and a slight tip of my arm dumps a load of blood on the floor!! WHOOPS the nurses are going to really love me NOT!!

A nurse comes out quickly to add a huge absorbant sheet to my arm and the pool of blood and they say they will try and get me in soonish. A few minutes later the nurse returns to clean the mess up. I stand up so she can work and over the next minute or so I start to feel reaalllly wierd, cold, sweating and floating round the room before muttering some gibberish ( i actually said im feeling ill but it came out gibberish!!) and falling in a heap on the floor!!

Obviously i was oblivious to the commotion this cuased for a minute or so until i felt ok again. I then got told off for trying to get up again and was wheeled off in a rickety wheelchair straight into A+E. One way to get past the que i guess!!!! After a few initial checks of BP and pulse etc to make sure i was ok they then proceeded to sort my arm out for the second time that day!!!!

By this stage i could sit up on the bed but standing was definite no no!! After cleaning away the obvious mess the doctor plainly announced sounding annoyed that there was no way it should have had sterri strips as the bleeding would just make them come apart and how it should have been stitched in the first place!!!

3 stitches later all bleeding has stopped and im bandaged up except i cant even sit up easily without feeling faint again. Oh dear. so the doc discusses with his trainee doctor how they could do a drip or a couple of cups of tea!!! This was to my surprise having not heard of a cup of tea as being a regular medicine!!!! But sure enough two giant mugs of tea later and they are happy with my obs and let me loose!! Its now 1130 and ive got a huge bandage on my arm with strict instructions to keep it dry for removal of stitches in 7-10 days! Great now i need a plastic bag on me arm in the shower!!!

So i return to base to the joy of cleanng up a huge mess, washing my clothes AGAIN!!!! prior to getting a some more kip.

I certainly wont forget this new year for many years to come!!!!

 

where there's a blame there's a claim

but fook me mate, i can't see the pic but what were you doing taking pictures of your blood when you shuold have been on the phone to get yourself an ambulance

gla you are on the mend but get in touch with the bar and make a serious complaint, helth and safety etc, especially with some of the places you've been over the last ew years it might come across with a lot more authority

 

good idea! id not thought about complaining. Im not pissed off with the bar really as its just an accident and on such a busy night it would have been easy to miss a piece broken glass like that. Im more annoyed with the fact i got treated and they messed it up leaving me bleeding in my sleep which could have been dangerous!!

Yeah i probably wasnt thinking quite straight when i woke up thinking id be ok despite the evidence to the contrary. I even put the sheets etc in the bath to soak before i went to hospital

 

Not the blame culture raising it silly head. Pleased your mended and what a shocker all that blood is but you have survived to live another day.

 

Shit, that ain't good at all

 

the strange thing is that after the initial cut it didnt hurt at all! even when they put the needle for the lignicane prior to stitches.

I was expecting to be very sore after the intial adrenaline had worn off.

 

seeing the pic with all the blood made my legs go funny!! wasnt expecting that! lol

how long/deep was the cut?

Mart.

 

Despite almost bleeding to death in your sleep.................
































The QM's Dept are still gonna bill you for the mattress!!!!!!

 

Fooking hell bloke!!

Are you OK now, looks like a lot of blood lost in that night sesh alone!

You'll be pleased to know I was due to do the Midnight gun change on New Years Eve!!

Hope you are feeling better now!

 

yeah im cool now!!

Been sleeping lots and feeling faint the last few days. I wonder why

i do hope i dont get charged mattress, blankets, duvet, covers, sheets and a carpet clean could add up to quite a lot!!

 

Hospitals – Portsmouth really don’t go together…

I fell of my bike disastrously last year after 4 years from being a competitive trials rider I thought that the break would not have relaxed my efforts or skills, so I decided to go for a ride with some mates.

A set of stairs that I found a piece of cake normally were the down fall of my guts and determination. I approached said stairs and launched the bike on to its rear wheel and proceeded in manoeuvring the bike up the 15 stairs on the back wheel then once at the top decided to return to the bottom in the same way….

With a slight mis-calculation half way down I managed to loose my balance and launch myself in to a position that really was not entertaining to watch. This resulted in me catapulting over the bars head first and clipping simultaneously my chin on the corner of the bottom step and my hands along the concrete.

I stood up almost immediately thinking that was lucky after the feeling f my teeth crunching a quick check and all was sound!!.
Until I stand up and my mates shout your chin… which had decided to turn itself inside out and dribble profusely down my somewhat now burgundy stained Daz white t-shirt.
I then had to with a sprained wrist ride the 2 mile one handed and the other hand supporting the gash.

Once home my good mate Russ came upto A+E to wait with me, on arrival – Friday evening I get a look of disgust and the first question – drinking were we…

My response no riding my bike..
On the way back from the pub were we…
No…just riding my bike down some stairs lol.

Anyway after waiting for almost 4 hours to be seen and a chin that was pouring out blood I was outraged that people coming in after were being seen before me.
I also became very light headed on several occasions and due to a head injury I thought these were more important.

Well once finally seen and 4 injections into the wound and 3 in the mouth I was given 6 stitches in my chin, whilst I was clenching the chair in which I was sat
We then found out the sprained wrist was broken in two places…… oh great another 2 hours of waiting.


Q+A hospital Portsmouth what a venue for a night out!

Sorry to jump ya thread mate hope your arm is healing well

 

fucking hell! any pictures of the arm now?

 

nah its almost healed now. The wound was only 3cm long, just very deep and now with the stitches its just a line with a scab. Was deep enough to cut a blood vessel hence the bleeding. Nothing to see now

 

Good to see your arm isn't going to fall off!