is this what happens when you give a handy to a chainsaw? AFAF
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is this what happens when you give a handy to a chainsaw? AFAF
The_Mountainside_Menace
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Ouch @Wrong Way Dan , what happened?
Too much wanking, but at least he didn't go blind (yet).
razor d**k is not a thing.
I looked it up. just to be sure.
unless he did it trimming the bush.
Seeing some callus forming. Dr. was pretty encouraged by this, hopefully starting PT next week.
I'm starting to see the value in those moto trials style 3/4 helmets. Riding one of the easiest sections of trail at Sterling two weeks ago, I just didn't see a small stump right at the edge of the trail due to a combination of it being slightly overgrown and having fogged glasses from a humid morning.
While pedaling seated, I drove my right pedal straight into the stump, got thrown onto the bars and then off to the side of the trail onto the left side of my head. My ear took the brunt of it, requiring two stitches on the interior. The stitches came out on Monday, then the wounds somehow got infected. They're now recommending 24 hour (minimum !) IV antibiotics so settling in for a nice night (and day) here in the Morristown ER.
While pedaling seated, I drove my right pedal straight into the stump, got thrown onto the bars and then off to the side of the trail onto the left side of my head. My ear took the brunt of it, requiring two stitches on the interior. The stitches came out on Monday, then the wounds somehow got infected. They're now recommending 24 hour (minimum !) IV antibiotics so settling in for a nice night (and day) here in the Morristown ER.
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iman29
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So no surgery then?
Nope. They have me the option and it was going to be 2 weeks post crash so I went the conservative route as the recovery time will be similar.
An update. My total hospital stay was right around 48 hours with multiple rounds of IV antibiotics. Nothing about the experience was fun, but also a reminder of "I have it pretty good" being around so many people going through true medical crises.
The morning after being discharged, my ear was still nearly as irritated as when I went in originally. After taking a shower, I scrubbed out the area of the cut and my wife noticed a piece of suture material visible in the ear. She was able to sterilize some tweezers and pluck it out. Over the course of the day all of the symptoms rapidly improved. We're both pretty sure that they missed a section when removing the stitches, it got irritated and led to a foreign body reaction. Looking back, nobody in the hospital actually took a close look at the cut or did much in the way of cleaning it.
I will say that nearly all of the providers that I saw at the hospital were awesome and I have a ton of respect for what they do. That said, admitting someone for ~50 hours, doing a CT scan and administering a course of treatment assuming MRSA or similar as the result of a stray stitch that was missed feels like a pretty big failure.
I'm happy to be home and healing, just not quite sure what to make of this whole experience. I'm not arguing that this rises to the level of "malpractice", but it's going to be very hard to stomach the coming onslaught of bills given how everything transpired.
zmartene
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FWIW, there is a different between malpractice and simple negligence. This seems like the latter. Not that knowing that helps :-/
I always wonder how my teams at veterinary hospitals offer better care to dogs and cats than I typically get at a human hospital. I'm very lucky to be able to largely avoid the human healthcare system - one day I'll need to engage with it but for now I'm happy to kick that can down the road a bit farther.
the veterinary side is not all sunshine and roses either;
last friday our newfie/great pyr mix went in for a dental cleaning and they managed to loose 2 pieces of gauze in the process, he swalled them and needed and emergency endoscopy to retrieve them before they caused a blockage. So had to make the drive to eatontown at 430 on a friday (from westfield) in shore traffic to correct this.
stilluf
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Hello former civil defense attorney here. Medical Malpractice is a form of negligence. Doctors and medical professional aren’t held to a standard of perfection, but they do have a duty to act as a reasonable medical professional given all of the circumstances. To me, a reasonable medical professional would not (I) fail to remove all of the sutures, and then (II) subject you to unnecessary treatment.
Bottom line is you probably have a claim. At a minimum, the hospital should not charge you. And damages are also possible given what you were subjected to, unnecessarily.
I can’t make a referral, but I would talk to a med mal attorney to see what he/she thinks.
I appreciate the response. I'd considered that this could be the case but hadn't really given it significant thought. Perhaps I will. I do have a picture of the suture in my ear on Monday, a full week after the appointment to remove and the day after my 48 hour hospital stay. Just doesn't seem like a stretch to think that someone could have been like "hey, this is really localized and started the day after the sutures were removed, maybe we should be really sure that we got all of them out" before hitting me with IVs at 8 and 12 hour intervals for multiple days.
zmartene
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Fair. Like my human counterparts, there is a range of quality in the care provided in veterinary medicine. There's a big difference between my hospitals and the ones in the back of the pet store, or even a lot of private practices. A lot of vets are ok being "good enough."
also the fact is noone is perfect, this is the fist time we have had any issues with our vet. and to be fair they not only paid the bill for the endoscopy without us even having to ask (emergency vet billed them directly) and they called ahead so i was in and out of the emergency vet in <2 hours, the only thing they really could have done better is having one of their staff take him down to save me the drive and aggravation of sitting in the traffic. (it would also have gotten him there ~45 min faster since i wasnt taking my 3 year old with me on this excursion so had to wait for my wife to get home)
Being recently involved...
One lawyer will say one thing, another will contradict. The threat might resolve the the hospital bills, and create a lawyer bill.
There is no actionable loss.
Look at the bill and decide if paying a lawyer to contest it is worth it.
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zmartene
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That's fantastic to hear - kudos to your vet! These things do happen, but it's great to hear your doc took care of it as much as possible. There's still hope for the profession 🙂 (if your vet happens to be open to a new job in NNJ, I need a doc in Wayne - just sayin)
yea, mistakes happen, its how you handle them that really matters.
our vet is part of an animal hospital so im not sure which one was actually doing the cleaning. We do of course have a favorite at this place, but i dont think she was in that day.