Let's set the scene...
I was walking through my school field when I was pushed over. I fell on my hand, and my wrist/forearm basically snapped in half, like you could see my forearm was at a 90 degree angle.
The pain was incredible. It was so bad I puked. I went to the school office, and shocked the staff. An ambulance was called, and the paramedics came in about 25 minutes. The amount of pain I was in was unbearable and I had to sit in the office waiting for 25 long minutes.
They came and immediately gave me strong pain relief (morphine
) and gas...(you know the one that makes you lightheaded) My mother came and was horrified, literally screaming and crying. I was wheeled out into the ambulance much to the interest of the whole school.
Sirens on and sped to hospital...
The ambulance team were so kind, reassuring and made a good start. They even put up with my incoherent mumbling due to the gas.
Good start NHS!
I had an X-ray and I was, at that time one of the priority cases in A&E so I was dealt with fast. I had a registrar, give me more pain relief and physically, put my arm back in a normal shape...It was till broken, but not at that terrifying angle...
IT HURT SOOOOOO MUCH, I was screaming...lol
But the registar was so nice! Reassuring and efficient!
I had to stay in hospital overnight and the overnight nurses were rude and unpleasant, you would think that the children's ward would be different but no...
I couldn't sleep, they had no food to give me because apparently they had finished all the food. I was annoyed quite frankly.
I managed to get to sleep but for some reason accidentally slept on the nurse call button. So they rudely woke me up and told me to stop playing games.
Really?
In the morning I met with the consultant and anesthetist. Both of them were superb! Pleasant nice, really nice people. I remember the anesthetist saying just imagine you're having a big G&T as she was putting me under...really sweet (and Bulgarian
)
The consultant was amazing, so amazing that I will be shadowing him this summer!
@Ethereal World Tell me if you want me to continue?