Road rash
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Just to say thanks again to everyone for repeatedly recommending that I seek medical attention immediately; in hindsight a no-brainer, but coming from a skateboarding/BMX (non-technical) background, in the past I've been used to mainly ignoring flesh wounds/scrapes/grazes..
Attended A&E yesterday, they were very good, got wounds cleaned and dressed and was given various antibiotics due to suspected infection. Unfortunately the dressing disintegrated overnight; the nurse at my local GP surgery re-dressed today, which annoyingly tore apart apparently while I was picking up my fakenger bag from the treatment room floor. (just realised on getting home).
Just posting the above as background for a further request;
...in case anyone could suggest somewhere in central London I could get a wound re-dressed/cleaned (5 minute job) without a 4 hour wait? (e.g. in my lunch break, working in SW1) ..
Thanks.
re: pictures - I do have a few in my camera, but they're not worth sharing, the shoulder's just red/yellow road rash, couldn't bend round enough to get a non-blurry pic of the elbow, and the thigh pics turned out a bit NSFW0 -
Try the nurse at your doctors. I had to have my dressings changed every day for 6-8weeks. Where I was living at the time there was a cottage hospital that did it. As you say - a 5 minute job but it does need doing.
Keith0 -
http://www.westminster-pct.nhs.uk/pdfs/yp_guidetoservices.pdf
The above any good? What about St Thomas', although that's at Westminster.0 -
emotionless_softcore wrote:...in case anyone could suggest somewhere in central London I could get a wound re-dressed/cleaned (5 minute job) without a 4 hour wait? (e.g. in my lunch break, working in SW1) ..
Thanks.0 -
Go to a pharmacist!
You'll have to pay for the stuff they use, but they do a great job of dressing wounds.0 -
Specialized Needs wrote:The walk in NHS centre on Buckingham Gate (near Victoria St) seems to be not too bad.
Excellent.
Thanks to cafewanda & lost_in_thought for useful information also.0