The Medical Mystery of Snowy's right foot...
... which puzzled the cream of the medical profession for three weeks

GP One:

Me: Hello, my foot really hurts
Doc: OK, take your shoe off, I'll have a look.... mmmm probably fine, do your shoes up less tightly.

One week later, GP Two:

Me: Hello, I saw your colleague last week and she said it probably wasn't serious, but my foot really, really hurts
Doc: OK.... well it's very unlikely to be anything serious, take some anti-inflammatories and try and rest it

One week alter, GP Three:

Me: Hello, my foot really hurts and your the third person I've seen and it's really, really not getting any better:
Doc: Well, I doubt it's broken but I'll send you for an XRay since it doesn't seem to be getting better

...back to GP Three with XRay results:

Doc: My God, you've broken your foot, did you not notice?
Me: Yes... I did... because it really fucking hurts, frankly.
Doc: Well, unfortunately there's nothing we can do now except let it set, as we didn't spot it earlier.
Me: Brill. Thanks a lot..

I appreciate they see lots of people, with a variety of problems, and generally do good work, but I had a massively swollen foot and a pain that wouldn't go away... it's not like I'm expecting House, MD, but a bit of common sense wouldn't go amiss.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:13, 6 replies)

Maybe they assumed your were a crack whore
and just trying to score some pain killers
(NuffMuff fucks shrubbery, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:15, closed)

Was it Lupus?
Because it is never Lupus.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:16, closed)

Did you tell them you suspected it was broken?
It's quite hard to tell just by looking...
(gordonjcp, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:40, closed)

I had raised the possibility
Although I wasn't sure as I'd never broken anything before, so didn't really have a frame of reference
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 12:42, closed)

But did it just start hurting
or had it had some kind of trauma that could have broke it, like "shit! I've dropped that massive paving slab on my foot and I might have broken it".
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 14:48, closed)

I can't remember..
No one believed me when I said this, but I honestly couldn't remember doing anything to it. I just woke up one morning and it hurt.

And I wasn't pissed the night before, either, which would at least have helped to explain things. I'd gone out for a quiet couple of pints with a mate, walked home feeling fine, and gone to bed.

The fact that I couldn't identify how it had happened did, to be fair, probably contribute to their not considering a break as a hypothesis.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 11 Mar 2010, 15:10, closed)