This is my rant~

[JenJen]

isnt it a little......over the top to take time out to post on p99 forums when you're, like, in ER waiting with a fucked up foot? I mean...theres addiction and then theres addiction!

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by JenJen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

isnt it a little......over the top to take time out to post on p99 forums when you're, like, in ER waiting with a fucked up foot? I mean...theres addiction and then theres addiction!

YEAH, TRALINA. DON'T YOU HAVE IMPORTANT STARING AT THE WALL TO DO?

[Hasbinbad]

Originally Posted by Spud [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

drinking injury?

Funny you should say that, even before she posted the foot picture, I was thinking "Tralina at the ER.. ..musta been too much $1/pint vodka."

Then I saw the picture, and I was sure of it.

Tralina, learn to bathe, WTF. That foot hasn't seen a good scrub in a week if it's been a day. No fucking wonder it won't heal. No fucking wonder they won't see you. ER personnel don't like helping people that are capable of helping themselves but don't.

[EvilMallet]

There is not a word to describe how much that sucks.

My mom got cellulitis in her foot a couple years back, she went to the ER, she didnt really notice it except for a little redness, and over night her foot was practically on fire, the ER didnt know what the fuck it was and just tossed her antibiotics, which didn't help in the least bit

They had to call some doctor from the 48s (We live in Alaska), so she pretty much got to sit in a chair in pain for 3 months while we waited for the chick, and then that took another 3 months while the doctor played "Ooh, lets see if THIS medicine works."

[EvilMallet]

oh whoops, should have read a little farther in, now we're making fun of Slathar again

[Ektar]

ya guys srs. by the 3rd page you should assume any rnf thread has become derailed and is like any other thread in rnf. anyone mentioning tralina, except if it's not about her foot, is out of line.

and 3rd is a conservative estimate.

[naez]

read OP until the word "boyfriend"

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[Loly Taa]

Originally Posted by Shannacore [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That picture is actually a month old. It hasn't healed like, at all, hence the reason I'm here.

I tripped down a staircase in my apartment complex. A cement staircase - that's why it's all roadrashy looking.

I was at the campus clinic two weeks ago. They cleaned it out really well (Lots of gravel and gross junk was trapped under the scabs / skin) and gave me some antibiotics for the infection that was starting. I was left with two wounds - pretty deep. Was told to just keep it wrapped and vasaline'd and that the antibiotics would do their thing. The antibiotics surely helped with the pain (The infection was causing so much pain that I couldn't even walk on it), and I was pain-free for about two weeks. Buuuuut about 3 days ago that pain started coming back. Seeing as these two wounds have not healed, like, at all + that same pain coming back, I figured the infection was coming back.

SO YESTERDAY, I had an appointment at 2pm at the campus clinic. The second I stepped my infected foot in there they pretty much said "gtfo to the ER". So I've been sitting here since three yesterday.

This is absurd. Entering hour 17.5.

How drunk were you that you tripped on concrete stairs and did not properly clean or disinfect the wound?

You said that pic was from a month ago, and the campus thing cleaned shit out two weeks ago, but honestly? HONESTLY? How drunk do you have to be to get gravel and dirt and shit in your wounds and not notice, or attempt to clean it out at any point.

Had the same happened to me, I would've thoroughly cleaned the area with water, then hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol, kept it dressed cleanly each day and made sure there was no infection.

They even sell triple antibiotic ointment at the stores, so honestly... How did you let it get that bad?

Not to be a dick, but it seems to me you did not take proper precautions after the incident and now you are paying for it with time spent in the ER. I mean, I guess it could be diabetes- but really, you shoulda kept that shit on lock. If you can't get antibiotics prescribed to you- I can tell you this, all Thompson Labs fish antibiotics are human antibiotics repackaged. So just order those up, it's super cheap off Amazon and the shipping is quick.

...but honestly, for it to be that bad then, then for them to clean it weeks after, and it get worse- I mean, you obviously neglected yourself for whatever reason. When you get road rash or some crazy wound you need to clean it, even if it means cutting away skin with a razorblade to make sure you get any foreign particles out.

At very least, disinfect it each day with whatever.

I can provide links to two very informative books that are free upon request, 'When there is no doctor', and, 'When there is no dentist'

There is no reason to let an infection get that bad ever, we've had antibiotics for over a hundred years now and they've saved countless lives.

If they can't help, then yeah- stop doing crocodile or snorting coke cut with animal dewormer.

[Hailto]

Thanks for the public service announcement.

[Loly Taa]

Originally Posted by Hailto [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks for the public service announcement.

That wasn't a public service announcement- this is;

When there is no doctor;

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Where there is no dentist;
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