ERSo it was 4th quarter, only a few mins to go, we were over 10 goals up, and I was about to pull off another amazing interception, but instead I just hit the ball with my finger front on. It hurt a bit and then I looked at it and it looked so bung, it was all bunched up and weird, kind of like a vacuum hose.
RAH emergency is dero city central, lots of scrubbers and really dirty people. I talked to the nurse and he gave me some panadiene forte (mmm) even though it wasn’t really hurting at all, I figured I was going to be there for a while.
My doctor emma was heaps nice, she said she’d give me a local anaesthetic and then straighten it and then get some xrays to check it was all good. Then this older Dr came along, and he tried to pretend he was just going to look at it but I could tell he was about to inflict pain on me by his sickly smile and stupid chit-chat “so.. whats your..NAME (crack)” and that was when he yanked it and tried to get it back in place. But it didn’t go in.
Then emma invited in a student to watch her inject the anaesthetic in between my fingers and it was this guy who used to live across the road. He used to act all like “I’m a med student so I’m only going to start sentences with I’m” but then I could hear him talking to the other doctors and he was all sucky. She injected in between my fingers four times which was by far the most uncomfortable part of the experience, but then my hand went totally numb and she rearranged it back to normal and sent me to xrays. They took me everywhere on my bed which seemed kind of overkill for a finger injury, I tried to get off to put something in the bin and the nurse got all nervous and rushed over and goes “it’s ok, I can do that for you, if my finger looked like that I’d want to be in bed”
Overall, it was the best trip to the hospital I’ve ever had, they even gave me some panadiene forte to take home. I think its always the person who goes with you who suffers the most really. Poor Tg had to sit in the waiting room with Chd for two hours… she looked far more weary than I did when I came out.