Been to two hospitals today the first one put a sticky plaster on and said if it swells see your gp.
The second one x-rayed my foot , it turns out the nail scraped the bone the doctor said he would have liked to keep me in and give me intravenous antibiotics. But he ended up sending me home with two boxes of tablets.
The silly thing is I have a pair of nail proof work boots but they need new laces, no one to blame but my self
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aarrgghhhh ouch ouch ouch!
poor you,good job you went to the second hospital hey,hope it recovers soon!
Thanks Elvis, My wife is a nurse and she was so shocked when I came out of the first A&E that she drove me directly to the next nearest hospital :o
Glad she did. The doctor in the second one was realy concerned. its strange how peoples attitudes differ.
Oowwwweee! That looks horrid and a lesson to us all. Glad you got the right treatment in the end and hope it heals quickly.
That looks really nasty, ouch! You are very lucky that your wife took you to the second hospital.
Hope your foot gets better soon.
Ouuchy! Reminds me of the time I was breaking wood over my knee and missed a nail - ended up with the wood stuck to my leg and little sympahy from the OH!!
As a teenager in '76 I jumped off a 3' wall into some long grass and did exactly the same on a piece of collapsed fencing...
I can still remember the 2 mile hobble to the Drs... :o
Hope it heals well and no deep infections set in..
Nasty i hope ya foot get better soon.
I never go down the plot without me safety flip flops on ya never can be to carefull can ya. ;) ;D
I did wear trainers until they wore out and am now having to wear some stout shoes. Good job eh!. Hope your foot gets better soon
Ewwww! Get well soon. I wear wellies and they are even thinner than trainers. Yikes..
Just thinking about it makes me cringe.
Feeling a bit sick now!Hope it heels quickly.
Don't wear trainers!
I have a book called 'your allotment' by Clare Foster and in the photos (obviously posed but nonetheless) she is wearing flip flops and in one photo she is vigorously turning the soil over with a garden fork, hardly a good example for a newby.
Oweee! Safety boots for me now.
Ouch! I only wear my wellies, I can still remember the night I trod on an upturned 3pin plug on my way to the bathroom.
Get better soon
Oh i hope you soon recover from that experiance Alan, good for your wife how sensible she is well done to lady A137.
All the best. ;D ;D
you can get steel toe capped wellies cant you,no idea how comfy they are mind,keep meaning to investigate,maybe now i will!
Thanks for the get well wishes everyone :)
I have seen steel toe cap wellies but not sure if you can get them with nail proof soles though.
Yes, you can get wellies, boots and trainers with steel toe caps and either steel or kevlar puncture-proof midsoles, like here (http://safety-boots.greenham.com/c/ss/11793219/Dunlop-Safety-Wellington-Boots) and here (http://safety-boots.greenham.com/c/ss/11793206/Sole-Mate-Safety-Boots).
Goodness me - all these safety shoes/boots etc! I wear bare feet in summer and wellies in winter. Got the occasional nasty in my feet, and stings between the toes and the one time I stabbed my toe badly I was actually on the patio at home. :o :o :o :o :o
But bad luck with the nail - can be nasty - let's hope it heals well.
We have safety boots, but I do sometimes wear my Crocs. I only wear them walking around the raised beds though where it is all tidy and covered with woodchips. If I actually have to do any digging I put the boots on. Not worth the risk in my opinion. Hope your foot gets better soon.
Same here, if I'm digging the steel toe wellies go on, otherwise I stick to my trainers, did make the old hairs stand up on my neck when I saw the nail though. :o :'( ;D ;D ;D
I know exactly what it feels like, I've been there twice when I was a child.....6" nail straight through my sandal and foot and out the other side! I lived on a farm and something was always being constructed. My sister-in-law pulled it out the first time i didn't get taken to a Doctor for several days the first time until not being able to walk on it became a problem...then i was unable to sit down after the tetanus injection in the bottom. Second time I didn't even get taken to the Doctor at all, just a bit of dettol applied. i really don't know how I survived my childhood.
Also I've slipped over twice in one day at the lottie wearing my trainers and set my back recovery back about a year so now it's wellies or boots, definitely boots to strim I see people being very casual without safety wear on feet, hands and eyes.
QuoteI have a book called 'your allotment' by Clare Foster and in the photos (obviously posed but nonetheless) she is wearing flip flops
I have that book too, and thought exactly the same thing, the photo made me wince!
Remember my Mum [5th generation professional gardener so rather embarassed about the incident] sticking a fork through her wellied foot on a frosty winter day. She said the worst bit was when the doctor got a long cotton bud and stuck it down the hole to disinfect it. Nowadays it might make a trendy piercing?
I kicked a bonfire and got a hawthorn thorn through the top of my foot. It penetrated the joint capsule and I swole up dreadful. What made it worse was my other foot being in plaster after breaking a bone......but re the nail incident, does anyone know where I could get size 4 steel-toed boots?
nope size 4 work boots
work with a bloke that has size 5 feet and he spends weeks looking for new boots
I always wear trainers at the lottie if the ground is dry. I only really wear wellies if it has been raining and the ground is muddy
I am a very bad example, as I wear Crocs in all weathers and dig in them as well! :-\ I do get the odd hawthorn spike in the bottom of them but just dig them out.... ::)
We have already said about wearing Boots etc on assisted gardening Thread :D :D
Safety first
Clear your plot of the dangers to start with
:-X