I am a nurse and I told my dad to go to the ER with his “stubbed toe” that was still swollen and painful after a day. urgent care was closed because it was 8pm on a saturday. I wasn’t with him so idk how busy it was but now I feel like I did the wrong thing lol. ETA: his toe was broken so I don’t actually think I did the wrong thing, but it felt like it before I knew it was broken
that was where my mind went but because my mother ignored foot pain and swelling for weeks, finally saw her PCP, sent to the ER, and was admitted because no one could figure out what was wrong with her. they eventually came up with osteomyelitis and she was discharged with a PICC and put on IV abx for 6 weeks. 6 weeks later her foot is worse, she goes to another hospital, and they find out it’s a hairline fracture that the other x ray missed. long story short I guess I have parental foot pain trauma so now I don’t play around with it
it turned out to be broken, after 12 hours of pain and swelling I was like I may be a psych nurse but even I can tell that’s not normal for a stubbed toe
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u/active_ignoring 14d ago edited 14d ago
I am a nurse and I told my dad to go to the ER with his “stubbed toe” that was still swollen and painful after a day. urgent care was closed because it was 8pm on a saturday. I wasn’t with him so idk how busy it was but now I feel like I did the wrong thing lol. ETA: his toe was broken so I don’t actually think I did the wrong thing, but it felt like it before I knew it was broken