"Minor injuries department"

While cycling to work, I came off my bike, at speed.  The most serious injury, requiring attention,  was that I'd split my chin, on impact with the ground. 

My husband had a look at the wound and said it needed to be cleaned so we attended MIU @ Victoria.  

The staff member said they couldn't see any obvious dirt but it needed a combination of paper & non-dissolvable stitches. A dressing was applied. I was advised to remove it after 2 days and use Vaseline on the area. 

After 24h it started to smell of pus.  I know someone who works in tissue viability and they had a look.  The area was oozing puss and was dirty. It was then cleaned with prontasan & an inodine dressing was applied.  The skin that was suture had disintegrated.  

At the time of writing 11 days later, I'm still seeing Tissue viability and have a DuoDerm dressing on the wound. 

As someone who also works in healthcare, I thought it would be helpful to feedback, for learning purposes.  I'm very grateful that I had access to  expertise within the hospital.