Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi all. Does anyone else suffer with this. I'll explain as well as I can.
So a few weeks back I slipped and hit my head on the ground. My head was cut open and hurt so bad it felt like my face had been ripped off. I did have other injuries but all I could feel mainly was my head. I was taken to hospital but they sat me in a and e. I was so uncomfortable all I wanted to do was sleep. The pain got so bad I laid on the floor just to relieve the pressure on my back. I got told off by the staff but I explained it hurt too much to sit. They still got annoyed at me. I couldnt work out why as I was in so much pain why did they act this way!
I was left on a bed in a room, I was just laying there in agony for ages. A doctor glued my head up then said right you can go now. I struggled to put my coat on and he put a leaflet in my shoe. I then had someone saying come on out now we need the bed. I was foggy, confused, in alot of pain.
I made it to the car park, stopping alot of the way and i couldnt walk straight. A week later the wounds infected so I see the gp. I think I'm just there for antibiotics but shes concerned as it turns out I have concussion and she wants me to get checked out st hospital. I dont see the point as I'll just be in pain there then sent home. So I go home. My memory is improving slowly and I'm not almost passing out now.
I know others who go to hospital with tiny things and get proper treatment. They didnt even xray my wrist which was painful, swollen and had a hard lump sticking out. (Still the same).
In the past I broke my finger, as soon as I'd done it i told my mum. She got me to help carry the shopping. Only after a week of me saying it hurts did I find out it was broken.
I've injured my leg badly it eventually needed an operation but the dr said how on earth did you walk on that.
My husband thinks I need to act more, cry, apparently I dont show pain in my face! I find this an odd thing to do. If I say I'm in pain I'm in pain I cant act.
Anyone else have relaying your pain to the dr issues?
I get this - I mask so well for 'normal' situations that I don't have a mode for 'distress' or pain. It's always the same semi-blank face so they assume I'm ok. Apparently, I was supposed to be screaming in pain in A&E when I broke my hand, had 2 broken ribs and my leg was ripped open from my bum to my ankle. (top rung on a ladder broke and I fell 10 feet).
When I'm really in distress, I become mute with a blank face. They assume I'm ok.
With a ripped open ankle to backside gash/cut....your reaction wouldnt matter at all at that point as is not based on symptoms when its so obvious..ie 3ft of gash? ankle to bum is a crazy amount of injury..how did the ladder do that?
I was standing on the ladder when the rung broke - my mass meant I went straight down through the rung below too - so my leg went through the ladder and my body fell away from the ladder - the sharp bracket that had held the broken rung dug into my ankle on its way past and kept cutting up my leg until I came to a halt. Cutting skin like that makes the same sound as ripping canvas.
It didn't bleed very much but looked really nasty and deep. I held it all together with lots of plasters.
We had been in a restaurant a few days before and they had red napkins - we told our daughter that they were to prevent lion attacks.
We told her my injuries were because I didn't have a red napkin.
Where you stitched or butterfly tape?
So to ask,but that left a massive image in my head..
Hope the leg is obviously better!...
It didnt bleed much?....maybe youre the terminator my friend.