Posted on 08/03/2010 10:48:05 AM PDT by Nachum
Bbbwwwaaahhhh! I would have loved to see the look on their faces!
That’s it! How dare he make a decision for himself?!!
My old vet when my dog was alive was excellent. I wouldn’t hesitate to see him for my medical care if I had to, I think he is 10x more competent then my regular doctor.
You can buy “liquid bandage” products that are basically nothing but super glue, at about 10 time the price of super glue.
Actually superglue was first developed by the Eastman Corporation for use on the old TFX(F-111). Instead of using rivets on certain parts of the wings they used glue.
My son cut above his eye falling off one of those kid-tosser merry-go-rounds at the park. He was bleeding a lot, so I took him to the ER. After about an hour I thot — heck with this. As I was leaving, they got all panicky, but I was not to be stopped. Took him to his doctor’s and they stitched it up just fine.
Uh, I don't think that came out quite right.
You know, someone brought this point up to me some years ago and I agree. I think that, based on my experience with MDs (and vets), veterinarians are actually better trained than a lot of MDs. Doctors who treat humans have to learn only about the human anatomy, nervous system, etc. whereas vets have to be knowledgeable about a whole spectrum of unique systems.
That's the way things were done back in the days before pissant lawsuits. I broke my wrist once (baseball injury) and he set it because the M.D. wasn't available. It was my right wrist and I threw just as well or better after it healed.
Aside from the very real horror of socialized medicine, swedes can be one tough people!! I’m not at all surprised that he sewed his own leg up.
My grandmother was from Sweden and in her 90’s, deaf and almost blind, she removed her own stitches from cut she got on her nose when she tripped and fell. She stated that she didn’t need a doctor for a little thing like that.
My dad, 90 at the time, needed hernia surgery & had to go off his blood thinning pills & required daily injections for a week after surgery. So my husband & I follow Dr.’s orders and go with my father to a visit before surgery so we could learn how to give my father an injection (in his stomach!!). Well, he fussed & said he didn’t need anyone’s help & the Dr. was wasting our time.
Which was the truth.
First day we had to give him the injection, we ask if he’d be more comfortable with me or m husband giving him his shot he says “Never mind, I already did it. Told you I didn’t need any help.” So he gave himself his own shots.
(I know I could never do that, not enough Swedish blood, I guess)
LOL...I see your point!
Saw a medical news special this past weekend where a neurosurgeon used super glue in brain surgery to save a baby.
LOL.. “And lo and behold...it healed.”
I mashed my knee really bad to the point were a 2x3 area of the skin tissue about a half inch thick flopped down and was just dangling over the kneecap. The wound was full of mulch as I was trying to round up some sheep that got out of the pasture in the woods and fell on a rock covered in dirt.
Went to the local Dr. office two days later (Monday morning) and they tried sending me to the emergency room. The only person who could see me was a physicians assistant who said he only works on sore throats and runny noses.
He got me some betadine solution and I took a scalpel and cut out the mashed tissue and scraped out the dirt myself. By the time I finished there were two MD’s, a nurse and a PA watching me do it... I joked..”No brain, no pain..”
On another visit I asked for a script for some penicillan to treat a sinus infection. They told me I would need a Dr. visit for it so I told them I would use the same stuff I use on the cows and turned and walked out the door. They wrote that on my chart...LOL
“Doctors who treat humans have to learn only about the human anatomy, nervous system, etc. whereas vets have to be knowledgeable about a whole spectrum of unique systems.”
And their patients can’t tell them what is wrong!
question? do you apply it to the surface of the skin and not in the wound itself?
Excellent point!
What’s with all the homosexual stories at that website?
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I happen to know a little about medicine....and have friends that can write me scripts...if I need them.
In 20 plus years, I've leaned on that TWO times for a script...both times on a weekend.
Once for a horrible sore throat....got some bug killer..and once not long ago...for a bad poison sumac contact dermatitis....got some systemic 'roids.
Anyhoo....you sound like a savvy person. Good on ya!!
It took 4 hours to get 4 stitches in my left hand a couple of years ago - if they’d given me the needle, I could have done it myself.
What do you use on cows and where do you buy it?
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