Unless they’d decided to try and perform home-surgery on it and stuffed up, then they shouldn’t have even been calling. Silly people!
Admittedly, as someone who suffers ingrowns, they do hurt, and if you get sick of it and cut it out yourself, there is a potential for a lot of blood if you make a mistake.
Yes, it was just a regular ingrowing toenail with no home surgery attempts or the like, and I wish the patient had been joking but he wasn’t.
Annoyingly, call takers are not permitted to tell people they are not allowed an ambulance. That job falls down to TAS, who call them back. I’d have loved to hear what they had to say…
I have a son who because of an ingrowing toenail, ended up with part of it being chopped off (the toe that is) but even then, its a long term problem, not something that happens suddenly, I cannot even understand how gutsy or more likely stupid these people are that DARE call triple 9 to ask……I want some of what their smokin!!
I work for an ambulance service too. Took a call from a patient who was panicking about missing a tonsil when she looked! She was quickly passed to NHSD.
July 16th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
“No, they didn’t get one.”
Thank God for small mercies.
July 16th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
Were they trying to be funny or did they really have an ingrowing toenail?
July 16th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
So they didn’t have ‘Difficulty in breathing’ caused by the pain from said ingrowing toenail?
July 16th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Maybe they have really fast-growing toenails.
July 16th, 2006 at 10:03 pm
I wont even ASK what the reply was…
yeah I will, was it polite…or truthful
July 17th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Unless they’d decided to try and perform home-surgery on it and stuffed up, then they shouldn’t have even been calling. Silly people!
Admittedly, as someone who suffers ingrowns, they do hurt, and if you get sick of it and cut it out yourself, there is a potential for a lot of blood if you make a mistake.
July 17th, 2006 at 5:52 am
What Alex Brooks said.
July 17th, 2006 at 7:49 am
I’m with Rob - what was your reply like? Oh and did they come back with something original like ‘but I pay your wages mate!’???
July 17th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Yes, it was just a regular ingrowing toenail with no home surgery attempts or the like, and I wish the patient had been joking but he wasn’t.
Annoyingly, call takers are not permitted to tell people they are not allowed an ambulance. That job falls down to TAS, who call them back. I’d have loved to hear what they had to say…
July 18th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
I have a son who because of an ingrowing toenail, ended up with part of it being chopped off (the toe that is) but even then, its a long term problem, not something that happens suddenly, I cannot even understand how gutsy or more likely stupid these people are that DARE call triple 9 to ask……I want some of what their smokin!!
October 17th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
I work for an ambulance service too. Took a call from a patient who was panicking about missing a tonsil when she looked! She was quickly passed to NHSD.