Good luck Nick, hopefully quicker than NGH.
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You are seeing far too much of hospitals Nick.
Stop it at once!
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Quick resolution I hope
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Hope you are sorted quickly.
All the best.
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Ow!
Good luck Nick.
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Big Ouch ! Hope you are soon on the mend Nick.
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Feeling a lot better than when I arrived. Just waiting for a scan.
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Ouch, keep in touch
ATB Nick
All done now after 6 hours. Looks like Iâm ok for now. Groin muscle has reinserted itself. Hopefully it stays there 
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Hopefully it does. Probably not the nicest way to spend your evening though 
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Did it need any help from the staff or was sitting still on one of their hard plastic chairs for hour after hour enough ?
No help needed. By the time I was examined by a doctor it had moved back. Just had a scan to confirm it was all OK and advised to check out the wonderful world of groin belts.
The one thing that concerned me was that the triage doctor said that these days they rarely offer surgery to fix it on the NHS as it can be âproblematicâ so would need to go private if it kept reoccurring. I never got to speak with anyone from the surgical team who they advised would speak with me so I couldnât get a clearer picture of what this meant. I think because my scan was ok they didnât bother. Quite frankly at the time I was just relieved to be feeling ok again and getting out as the place was filling up a lot of people who clearly had mental issues.
Anyway well done NHS 
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In my limited experience (and none of hernias) NHS trusts vary in their approach to stuff. Down here my trust has what they call a âSurgical Emergency Unitâ which sits behind A&E, so to speak. We ended up in there with Claireâs original haemorrhoid problem and they made the decision to refer her to another department - Colorectal - for very effective âbandingâ of the farmer. The people in A&E are lovely but I wouldnât take their word for anything nuanced as gospel, unless of course theyâve called in expert help from the specialist department. Thatâs not to say things arenât different where you are though.
The issue of managing patients with dementia seems to be quite a big one now. At one stage the outpatient nurses were trying to find an AGM (Acute General Medicine) bed for Claire and when they finally did they said âDonât worry, the one youâre going to is currently quite a nice ward, very few dementia patientsâ. Unfortunately one of those very few was in the bed opposite Claire. She was convinced she was being imprisoned against her will and spent much of the time (day and night) trying to escape, including trying to recruit the other patients to help her. After three days, and still seriously ill, Claire couldnât bear it any longer and it was a major factor in her decision to discharge herself into my tender care, âagainst medical adviceâ as they say. I donât know what the answer is, but boy could I see what the problem was.
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Got a blister on my finger a couple of weeks ago,know idea how but just ignored it,but it didnât really go away and was incredibly itchy.
Has started to swell up a bit and quite sore so thought Iâd better contact docs for antibiotics.
Phoned up about 8am and was sent a link to take a photo of finger. Doc phoned back at 8.20 with diagnosis,no idea what he said it was,something eczema and needs steroid cream.
Basically this post is nothing to do with my finger,but how impressed gps can use technology.
Saying that,if diagnosis is wrong,they will be hearing from my imaginary solicitor
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Larry has been in touch & is keen to look after Phil the finger if you donât want him.
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Was his voice unfamiliar, maybe sounding a bit like Steven Hawking ? Thatâs the great thing about AI. Itâs ârightâ even when itâs wrong.
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Seems it might be Dyshidrotic eczema or
Herpetic whitlow which doubles up as a Harry Potter spell
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I had a Whitlow once, The GP got a scalpel out and cut it out of my finger with a local anaesthetic.
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Was never as good once he went electric
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