Practice nurse dressed a wound on my leg
In mid-July, I tripped on a step in the Isle of Wight and the concrete corner tore a 8-inch gash down the front of my left leg. It bled a lot and an ambulance took me to A and E, where the doctor said I would need plastic surgery and that, at 92, with varicose veins already cauterised,my chances of complete healing were not good. However, the A and E charge nurse who dealt with it was strong enough to push most of the edges together and hold them with steristrips. When I got back to Lewes, I told the St Andrew's practice nurse that it had been treated with honey by the local IoW surgery. She took immense trouble dressing it with honey twice a week and applying compression bandages. The result is that in three months it has completely healed: no residual ulcer, nothing but a faint scar.