What are you thinking?

We received a call from a 45 year old insulin using diabetic who is a tradesman. He had just but his drill through his hand and wanted to know when his last tetanus shot was.

Whoa! we said, tetanus schmettanus, you need to come in right now, and have someone look at that hand. We are full to overflowing but we will fit you in.

Nope, can’t do that, my doctor is already mad at me because my sugars are all out of whack and I just need my tetanus. We did manage to force him to come in the next day, although this could easily have turned very ugly well before then.

He did show up the next day and although the hand was beginning to show the signs of an infection, it wasn’t terribly bad yet. His sugars however were way off his normal. It turns out that he had realized he lost weight if he did not use his insulin so he stopped.

He did not tell us that, his wife who had her own appointment earlier in the day rat finked him out.

I did find out that he was trying to put a screw into a hard surface when it slipped (because he wasn’t using the proper tool–a guy thing that I understand all too well.) and it went into his hand. At which point I remarked that he had just screwed himself. (in more ways than one.)

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