bitten by a monkey

[naturelover]

yes i was bitten by a monkey when i was five years old,it started when mum dad and i were going away on holiday for a week and we had to have someone look after our dog rusty,my dad had a friend who had lots of animals so he asked him,we took rusty there on the bus and went on holiday.after the holiday we went to pick rusty up,while mum and dad were talking to my dads friend i spotted a big cage with three monkeys in it, so me being me toddled over to see them,mum and dad didnt see me go, i was holding on the bars of the cage while talking to the monkeys,then one put his hand through the bars and grabbed a handfull of my hair,i screamed and put my hand up to stop the pain, the monkey then grabbed my arm and pulled it through the bars and bit my hand,it was the fleshey bit on the palm of your hand below your thumb,then another monkey started to fight the first one this made him let go of my hand that they were fighting over and i was free,by which time mum and dad rushed over,dad took his tie off and held my arm up with it,but instead of calling an ambulance i went to hospital on the bus,as i got older i always wondered why mum and dad didnt call an ambulance but then it was 1951 they wernt yoused like they are today,anyway i am still here to tell the tale.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by naturelover

.......... i went to hospital on the bus,as i got older i always wondered why mum and dad didnt call an ambulance but then it was 1951 they wernt yoused like they are today,anyway i am still here to tell the tale.

Perhaps it didn't seem such a major event to them as it did to you! You might have been biased .....
Also, perhaps, it might have been easier to find a 'bus than a telephone - they were quite a rare things in those (happy ) days ...

[demicav]

I bet that's a memory you've never forgotten.

[naturelover]

you can say that again,its a wonder i am not terrified of monkeys but i am not atall,the thing i remember more than anything is the tetanus jabs and a nurse ripping the bandages off to re dress it,they were stuck and she just ripped it off making it pour of blood again,that did hurt i think more than the bite.

[galanthus]

Ooh sounds quite traumatic .

I was bitten by an emu about 3 years ago in Gwbert Coastal park, my fault as at my age I should have known better and paid attention to the 'do not feed the emus' poster Very painful and lots of blood.

[Kayleigh]

I remember ripping a wart off my thumb when I was a kid. It would not stop bleeding so my dad took me to hospital (with the thumb bandaged up blood seeping through) on the bus.
At hospital the wound had just stopped bleeding when the nurse pressed on the wound and it poured with blood again. Then I got a tetanus jab in the backside that sent the whole leg numb. This was in 1968 so they didn't call the ambulance then either.

[naturelover]

its so funny how things have changed,we must have been a lot stronger in them days i wonder why,look how we had no central heating remember that well,you didnt want to get out of bed cos your nice and warm,there were pritty jack frost pattens on your windows inside not out,but it didnt bother us then it would me now,we have all turned into sissies.

[Ollie]

Not quite the same but similar. When I was five years old I fell out of a chair and split my head open when I landed on the edge of the tiled fireplace hearth. My father was a farm worker in those days and had just come home for his dinner. According to my mother, My head was wrapped in a towel and my father ran with me in his arms to the boss's house about half a mile away where the nearest car was available. I was then driven to the doctors surgery about two miles away with the boss's housekeeper holding the towel round my head to try and stop the bleeding.

Apparently you could see the bone the cut was that wide. The doctor took one look at it and said no time to go to hospital and promptly stitched it up without any anaesthetic or freezing it. My dad said that people could hear me screaming at the far end of the street as the stitches went in, five in total. I still have the scar to this day although it only really shows when I get my forehead very cold. This all happened in 1956 so I have now given my age away
Roger

[galanthus]

I split my leg open on a very sharp rock whilst looking for frogs. Being about 9 yrs old I couldn't understand why there was no blood I ran in to ask my parents and my mum became hysterical, all you could see was flesh. I screamed and cried so much when the word stiches was mentioned my dad just joined the edges together with paper stitches. Needless to say massive scar with no nerve endings now Never found any frogs either

[Wild-Woman]

If anyone knows the hill in front of the observatory in Greenwich Park, London, that's where I ran down, tripped and embedded the broken end of a bottle in my knee. I was 5. I can still remember it and still have the scar. In those days, 1966, they had a St Johns Ambulance tent for minor injuries. Think if a child cut themselves as badly today, it would have been hospital and stitches. Then it was lashings of iodine and a thick bandage a pat on the head and off you went.

[briar rose]

Oh dear the things we got up to when we were kids I remember when I was 6 (1969) I was in the shed playing with my elder brothers chisels, and cut my hand open on one of them, it wouldn't stop bleeding and all mum did was slap a band aid on and send me to bed for being naughty I still have a big scar on my hand from it.

[Stewy]

Don't like monkeys, they give me the creeps for some reason.

[Pete Collins]

I'm very worried now - according to ceefax two chimps have escaped from Whipsnade Zoo, a couple of miles from here!

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

I'm very worried now - according to ceefax two chimps have escaped from Whipsnade Zoo, a couple of miles from here!

Lock up your bananas!

[Paul mabbott]

I did something similar on Tower Hill, a few () years earlier - treatment ditto except that I was dealt with by one of your actual beefeaters.

I'm not sure that nowadays stitches are always used - it is a decision based on the size and location of the cut and, I think, always has been. I've had some serious gouges left unstitched and some "minor" (i.e. small but in places such as joints) stitched. What I think has become almost universal is giving anti-tetanus jabs. Should be noted that you can decline jabs which I always do - I suspect that at my age I'm exposed to so much tetanus that it's a waste of money and time. Good idea for youngsters though.

I'm also not convinced that people nowadays immediately call for ambulances. In the many times that my children have needed hospital treatment only once has an ambulance been called - that was in my absence when one slipped on the ice and was concussed and someone nearby kindly, if unnnecessarily, called one. Otherwise we've found it easier and quicker to take them to hospital by car or bus .....

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

If anyone knows the hill in front of the observatory in Greenwich Park, London, that's where I ran down, tripped and embedded the broken end of a bottle in my knee. I was 5. I can still remember it and still have the scar. In those days, 1966, they had a St Johns Ambulance tent for minor injuries. Think if a child cut themselves as badly today, it would have been hospital and stitches. Then it was lashings of iodine and a thick bandage a pat on the head and off you went.

[Wild-Woman]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

I did something similar on Tower Hill, a few () years earlier - treatment ditto except that I was dealt with by one of your actual beefeaters.

You could have been so easily fed to the ravens!

[SparklySarah]

My brother, Huw, was on a school trip in France when he was in year 8 and he was going on a walk wit his group. When they were going along a path, his teacher stoppe and pointed down at something and said 'look, theres a lizzard'. Huw pointed out that it couldn't be a lizzard because it didn't have any legs. So Huw being him decided to pick it up and put it in his teachers hat so they could look at it properly. Just as he was picking it up it bit him on the thumb. He eventually got it into the hat, where the teacher announced that it was a baby Adder!!! They did nothing about it, not even inform mum and dad, and at the end of the three days, his whole arm had gone dead. He hasn't improved much now and he's 4 years older than me!! Luv 'im!

[Varan Komodosky]

Very rarely use stitches these days for minor injuries, either steristrips or a wee drop of surgical glue. Never been bitten by a monkey either, but I must confess I have witnessed such an event. On a school trip to Singapore Botanical Gardens - one of my cohorts was teasing a monkey with a butty. Bad idea. (I was at school in Singapore at the time, not at some special millionaire jet-set school).

[juliejam]

While my Dad was out working in gibraltar he and a freind decided to
visit the top of the rock ..and see the Barbary Ape (macaques).. lots of
feeding was going on and one particular ape was very interested in
what was in one of the backpacks ..a little confrontation went on between this ape and the friend ...the result was that the friend was bitten badly and ended up being treated in hospital..

I visited my Dad that summer holiday and on hearing about this incident
kept well away from the Apes

Julie

[Lance Morgan]

I've never felt the same about monkeys/apes since I saw a programme about chimps hunting and eating monkeys.

[juliejam]

Originally Posted by Lance Morgan

I've never felt the same about monkeys/apes since I saw a programme about chimps hunting and eating monkeys.

I can remember watching that ..that little monkey's face as he so called relations were ripping his chest open..It did make me look at them in a very different light from then on..

Julie

[naturelover]

Originally Posted by Pete Collins

I'm very worried now - according to ceefax two chimps have escaped from Whipsnade Zoo, a couple of miles from here!

about the two chimps,on the news tonight one has been shot dead,wickid b************

[Pete Collins]

Originally Posted by naturelover

about the two chimps,on the news tonight one has been shot dead,wickid b************

That's a great shame. I remember in the sixties a couple of wolves escaped, and again they unfortunately had to be shot.

The zoo is just a couple of miles from where I live, and I remember as a boy occasionally lying awake at night listening to the wolves howling! The dairy farmer cum milkman up the road had a crazy old black labrador that would sit in the middle of the road and howl back at them!

Apologies for having strayed from the topic of this thread.

[Garden Carpet]

As a young girl of 10 I was bitten on the neck by an German Shepherd. It was my fault.. I had been feeding him and dropped a piece.. went to pick it up and poor dog went for me. It was a lucky bite as 1/4 inch one way and I wouldnt be here today. The biggest worry was that a couple of days before this incident I had read of a young british girl in Malta being bitten by a rabid German Shepherd and I was convinced that I was going to have rabies too. My poor parents had to console me, treat the bite and convince me I wasnt going to die of rabies!

[naturelover]

did you have a jab for tetnass.?