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Old Aug 21st 2015, 9:39 am
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Originally Posted by EMR
Theree is a solution to you dilema, if you do not like the responses to your posts ,the answer is obvious.
Some think that forums are not just forsharing experiences and obtainkng information but a vehicle for complaint and their own historical predjudices.
As expected :- I rest my case
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Old Aug 21st 2015, 11:30 am
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Originally Posted by Ingles
As expected :- I rest my case
What you mean is, no one should post any opinion that disagrees with me, because I am an expert !.
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Old Aug 21st 2015, 11:31 am
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Thanks for all the replies. I had to grab some popcorn and watch the fun here.
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Originally Posted by Ukkram
Thanks for all the replies. I had to grab some popcorn and watch the fun here.
How is your wife, have you been back to the clinic ?
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How is your wife, have you been back to the clinic ?
The swelling is down slightly but the infection has not cleared so will give it some more time.
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Old Aug 22nd 2015, 8:29 pm
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Perhaps not relevant to this thread but I took the opportunity when I took my wife in after her fall to get my own chronic medication as well.
They have my medication on record and I repeated the names and strengths. Got my script and walked out.
Unfortunately I did not read the script and today I went to the pharmacy only to realise that the script is wrong.
Now I have to go back on Monday to get the correct script. Hopefully, they will not charge me again.
This has made me loose faith in the private hospital system here. My wife's arm is still swollen and infected with bacteria that we are trying to fix with home remedies.
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Old Aug 23rd 2015, 6:42 am
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Ukkram, an infection in a serious wound is a very serious matter; life and death stuff. it can lie dormant and then progress rapidly, overnight. People die from this sort of thing all the time.
Don't take chances with this, go back to the hospital, or to a doctor, and get some antibiotics.
This is really important! if there's puss or swelling they may want to hospitalize her and put her on a drip.
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I agree with Live . If only for your own peace of mind UKK ..OH mashed his finger tip/ nail bed in a shredder in NL and I took him to the hospital They simple cleaned the wound and put gauze around it and told him he had to leave it until it grew back again. He went back every week for a month to dress it.He wasn't given any pain killers or antibiotics and he was fine.It did look awful though.
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I agree with Live . If only for your own peace of mind UKK ..OH mashed his finger tip/ nail bed in a shredder in NL and I took him to the hospital They simple cleaned the wound and put gauze around it and told him he had to leave it until it grew back again. He went back every week for a month to dress it.He wasn't given any pain killers or antibiotics and he was fine.It did look awful though.
We have found that the pharmacists in Portugal can be very helpfull and provdide medicines that are not available over the counter in the UK.
I virtually crawled into one with a bad back and they gave me some anti inflamatory and pain killers which really helped.
She also said that if it did not work go and see a doctor.
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Just an update for the recent posts. The Betadine has cleared the infection but her arm is still swollen literally to twice the size. The fact that it has turned blue to me means that it is getting better.

I now agree that this private hospital does not have a trauma center as we have never heard sirens or seen ambulances there. They are very well equipped and staffed by specialists in all fields but seems the patients are only transported there post trauma treatment at the general hospital.


So we will use the 112 number and go to the general hospital in emergencies.
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You are wrong!
This is a raging systemic infection. You can't cure infection with topical ointments.
You know I'm not a person to argue for argument's sake. I wouldn't contradict you if I didn't strongly believe this to be a very dangerous situation.
PLEASE get medical help IMMEDIATELY, tonight, now, do not waste another minute, call 112.
If I'm wrong, what did it cost you?
If I'm right [I'm pretty sure I'm right], this is so dangerous she could be dead by morning.
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I reckon Liveaboard has it right. - My better half who used to be a nursing sister tells me that if the arm is turning blue, it's a very bad sign.
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Bloody hell Ukkram - get your wife to a hospital NOW!!

Ring 112 now
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Old Aug 23rd 2015, 10:09 pm
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She refuses to go and I cannot make her to go. She hates going to hospitals and Doctors and I can't force her to do so.
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I had friends who refused medical help, and they're dead. I'm not saying this as a joke, I'm talking about at least 8 people I knew who killed themselves that way.
Is there pain or fever? Is the arm tender? Infections of this nature do not fix themselves. Before the discovery of antibiotics, everyone knew when you got something like that you're a goner.
Maybe you could walk over to that hospital and talk to the doctor on duty; describe the situation and ask his opinion. Go back and relay that opinion to you wife.
If all else fails, you could call the EMT's and they might decide she's not lucid and therefore unable to make her own decisions.
I had the same situation with my wife once; I called the hospital and got a doctor on the line to talk to her. That worked, she agreed to go and they saved her life.
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