Yet another Arb related injury

[skyhuck]

So you went in the ambulance, with the siren going?????????

[Matthew Arnold]

Nope just blues. No need for sirens. It wasnt a big rush to get there but just a bit quicker than normal road speeds. Instead of 60 we did 80, etc. I had my colleague bring me home as my dad went to a big job just up the road involving a muck spreader and motorbike but i didnt hear anything more about it.

[Rich Rule]

So did you get a chance to finish what you were doing whilst waiting for the ambulance to arrive?

 

 

Probabley quite painful though!

[tommer9]

RangerMatt, are you on the wind up about the 999 call?

i mean- an ambulance for a finger injury?????????

[Matthew Arnold]

Sadly i am not on the wind up about the 999 call. If it is a blood injury it is standard procedure where i am based to call for an ambulance. I think what made it go up another notch is that alot of weight on a small area so a crush injury was probable. It was query fractured as well but luckily it wasnt. This is my finger when i woke up this morning.

[Ian Leach]

Ah just a flesh wound man superglue duct tape blue peter style back to work full duties

[Matthew Arnold]

So did you get a chance to finish what you were doing whilst waiting for the ambulance to arrive?

 

 

Probabley quite painful though!

 

The colleague who pushed the chipper onto my finger put everything else away. Whilst my boss did the relevant first aid treatment.

[Matthew Arnold]

Ah just a flesh wound man superglue duct tape blue peter style back to work full duties

 

Haha. Im lucky that i'm only in one day next week as i do lots of beatin durin the pheasant season.

[tommer9]

Ranger matt, I am in no way trying to out do your injury or belittle it or anything like that, or even try to appear tough, but I worked on for about 40 minutes to finish what i was doing and then went home and dropped the trailer off before driving myself to casualty after I did this:

 

I only posted this because i am AMAZED that an ambulance was called, and that an ambulance actually came. I think that whoever authorised it in the council should be re-educated. We are bombarded with stuff about not wasting time on 999 calls.

[Matthew Arnold]

Now that one makes mine look like a graze in comparison. Needless to say my dad was not amused that it had been 999'd. He did say to my colleague that it was very stupid calling it in as my colleague could have driven there. In future unless it is life-threatening (pouring blood, open fracture,etc) we will drive to the nearest A n E. We have two trucks easily big enough to lay some one down in the back in relative comfort and under cover. And both trucks are washed out every month as a minimum tyo prevent build up of nasties (mud, woodchip, rubbish bag effluent, etc).