"Foul wound care"

Presented to ED after sustaining a kick to the hand and arm from a cow. Had been working with cattle that day, was covered in cow poo, got kicked. Waiting in ED for easily about 4 hours for an X-ray on possible broken elbow and treatment on a fingernail that had been ripped 90% off. I as unable to clean myself up and wasn’t offered any help or supplies to do so, therefore spread cow poo all through the ED and hospital.

When I was eventually seen, I felt the radiologist was rough as guts forcing my arm into positions which I couldn’t do, the doctor removing my nail didn’t even wash my hand before injecting local anaesthetic blocks in- I was still covered in cow poo, dr then removes the nail - again no washing of the area, nurse then bandages it over- again no washing, they literally bandaged cow poo into an open wound and told me to leave it for at least a week.

I went to another dr the next day to have it changed, the first dr/nurse had used a gauze swab to dress the open wound which had dried and stuck like cement in the wound. Took the next dr about an hour to try and soak it off it was so badly stuck and incredibly painful to do, ripped the raw flesh off with it, as well as all the dirt and filth that had dried in with it. I felt lucky I was not stupid enough to leave a filthy, contaminated wound untouched for over a week!