r/medizzy

A small crochet hook fell off of my bed and landed at an angle hook side up on a book that was sitting next to my bedside, I managed to step/trip on it in the most perfect way. Should’ve bit a towel and popped it out myself for the price of the bill lmao. Not very graphic but put NSFW just to be safe. Super cool Xray though! Scribbled out medical info and identifying tattoos. Last pic is how we got it held in place on the way to the ER to keep it from flopping around, kudos to my dad for that!

I’m sure I’m just naive, but this was a first for me. Being able to see the delicate vascular network so easily, amazed me. Almost reminded me of butterfly wings.

0/10 experience. Brush your teeth kids!

Tore my left proximal hamstring conjoint tendon doing single leg seated leg curls. 6cm retraction. 1 anchor used to fix it.

I came home from work the other day to my elderly neighbor asking for a bandaid because she "took some skin off her fingers"... Yes, she was asking for a Band-Aid.

When I came around the corner and saw her porch I almost died on the spot. She is 80 years old, on blood thinners and kept telling me it was no big deal. She fought me about going to the emergency room until I threatened to call an ambulance and she finally relented. She ended up taking 47 stitches between four fingers. She will need to see a hand surgeon to keep an eye on things and make sure she won't need any further care.

She was in the yard trimming down some bushes and working on her garden... She lives for her garden and has a pretty big green thumb. Now she has a pretty big bloody thumb. She was a trooper through the whole thing honestly! Unfortunately the hedgehog trimmer got caught up in her sweater - which was long and flowing - causing her to lose her grip. Instinctually she reached out to catch it as it fell. She's lucky it wasn't a hell of a lot worse.

I'm not kidding when I tell you that she just wanted a couple Band-Aids and a joint from me. She really had no plans on going to the hospital... I seriously thought I was going to have to call an ambulance and send her without her consent. That generation is tough as nails. We spent almost 9 hours in the emergency room. Now I just have to keep her out of the garden long enough for her hand to heal. 🙄

Auto accident.

Patient is a 34 year old male with no past medical history who was brought into the trauma bay after this extensive and complete degloving injury.
Patient was working at the airport when the signal was given for a Boeing 737 to move, unfortunately the patient was still underneath the plane as it rolled over his foot.

Degloving injuries are usually a result of high energy traumas that involve separation of the layers of skin with the underlying soft tissue. This is usually a surgical emergency that requires a formal washout and debridement as well as coverage for the exposed structures.

For this patient specifically, a below knee amputation was offered as it would provide the best functional outcome with a recovery period as little as 4-8 weeks. However, patient was adamant about keeping his leg, understanding fully that at any point in the reconstruction it can turn gangrenous and become life threatening. Ultimately half of the foot was salvaged as soft tissue coverage and vascular supply to each of the toes, was not feasible. Today the patient ambulates with a shoe filler and minimal discomfort.

My wife has, over the years, passed 13 stones up until this week. These are 14 & 15. The 14th is the little one and the 15th is this giant one. She claims she didn’t feel any pain until it reached her bladder. And for anyone who is concerned, she does have an appointment with a urologist this month. I’m in absolute disbelief. I have had one myself and it felt like I was dying.

*EDIT* We just measured it. It comes out to 12-13mm long and 6mm wide. Absolutely unreal.

Almost 10 years to the day now, 12 year old me was racing barefoot with a friend on the tatami after karate class, when I wanted to turn back I guess I planted my whole foot except my big toe which rotated. I heard a very load snap and immediately saw a little blood. Still in denial I thought I broke a nail somehow, happened a lot no biggie, but I was still scared so I walked as fast as possible so no one sees me. A girl in the class stops me and asks what’s up with my toe, I say it’s just a nail without checking again. She asks me to look behind me, and to my horror, a trail of blood all over the tatami, ending in a dark red pool under my toe. And now I’m really scarred. Coach saw me and wrapped my toe in whatever bandages and tissues were available and told me to go to the hospital immediately, before calling my mom so I don’t just go home without telling her (love em to this day for knowing my silent self). I was bleeding at an alarming rate and blood was leaking out my slides with every step, but I insisted to my mom that it’s a small cut ( I didn’t let her see it because I knew she is grossed out by this stuff) and some gauze from a pharmacy is enough. But the pharmacist told me the words I didn’t want to hear, in a very thick Indian accent “no, no, no. You need stitches”. Doctor told me I was lucky I didn’t break my toe, had a horrible first stitching experience (it took a while so the anaesthetic wore off half way through), and now I have a weird scar and a permanent hesitation in my step whenever I’m barefoot :)

Photos are at the first dressing, 2 days after the injury