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The ER's in the rest of the nation must be a lot better than those here in central NC.

My daughter suffers from severe migraines which prompts a visit to the ER about 3 times a year. It is always a zoo there due to the blacks and hispanics that are there with their entire families running around like animals. Nothing like having your child screaming in agony and trying to get her medicated while dodging illegal kids that yelling and running everywhere.

Yes I am bitter.

You guys make my trips seem LAME.

Lessse....stitches in the foot from a can in a ditch. Stitches in other foot from a broken bottle in the lake.

Last year my knee was bleeding excessively after ACL reconstruction...turns out it was the pain meds that were supposed to be going into my knee, they were leaking into my bandage instead.

The only 'good' one I've got is the time I was playing basketball. The nets were chain and connected to the rim with 'S hooks'. I caught an S hook in the nose when i jumped up. It ripped my nose open up to the hump.

Broken arm, road rash from falling off horse in the Rockies, getting a long splinter out of my hand, stitches on head, ran thumb through the table saw, saw the ER doctor so often he kept a file thinking I was the victim of spousal abuse.
(For the sensitive folks that was a haw haw.)
Jim

once for an appendix....

Yeah, a couple of times. Once for a broken toe, once for a UTI, once for (believe it or not) poison ivy. Those all happened at times when my doctor's office was closed.

When I was in 5th grade, our home economics class made butterscotch candy. I had a kitchen paring knife and I was trying to pry the candy out of the pan when the knife slipped and went into my left thumb just below the bottom knuckle. I remember the teacher wrapping a dish towel around it and rushing me to the school nurse. I waited there for my Mom, who (if I remember correctly) took me to the doctor, rather than to the emergency room. He closed the wound very nicely with one stitch, and I was the talk of the school the next day. I still have the scar.

Penny

Too many trips to remember them all. Most due to a condition that I'll keep to myself.

Some highlights were a compound fracture to my left clavicle, with a separated left shoulder. This was caused by a High School wrestling practice where I was being thrown and the guy throwing tripped. All of his weight and my weight went into it with me landing on my shoulder. This was before pain was managed very well in an emergency setting. They relocated my shoulder with nothing more than a pair of Tylenol 3's. I was drifting in and out of consciousness and throwing up. Not a fun night, or couple of weeks for that matter.

The other memorable trip found me in anaphylactic shock due to tangling with a hornets nest. By the time that I arrived at the hospital, I was swollen to about twice my normal size and my throat was almost shut. Luckily the epinephrine worked quickly and they did not have to trach me.

i gotta' speed pass

you name it...

woofer

Once as a teen I managed to catch Mom's clothes line on the down-swing with the splitting maul.......

Once, just the other day I almost gave the doc a coronary by displaying symptoms of DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis), and then reciting every single known risk factor to go with it. The ole boy actually turned kinda white, and literally jogged out of the room to make arrangements at the emergency room. I suppose he didn't want my 240 lb carcass on his exam room floor......

After hours ultra sounds are EXPENSIVE! Dutch.

A few times mostly because of my own stupidity doing various tasks once for a car wreck.

One of the funniest things I ever did see took place outside an ER. I was visiting a friend and had just stepped out in the parking lot by the ER when this car full of Mexicans slides to a stop. Woman is driving and the back seat is full of kids and this very pregnant gal laying out. Driver goes sprinting into the ER door.

There was this foreign doctor, Indian or Pak or something, on duty. Out the door comes the ER nurse and him. Run to the car.
Now all this is happening a lot quicker than it takes to tell you understand.

Nurse and Doc huddle up around the car. Nurse is hollering Puha Puha,which is Tex/Mex slang for push push. Doc decides to try it too I guess except he is hollering Puta Puta which, again, Tex/Mex slang for Whore! Whore!

While this is going on an old pickup slides to a stop and this Mexican guy jumps out. He hears this Doc hollering Whore Whore at his wife(?) and don't take kindly to that, don't you know.

Anyway he outs with a knife about a foot long, gives a war whoop and charges the Doc waving the knife around his head.

Doc lets out a scream, sort of a long EEEEeeeeeeeeeee!, and takes off like a scalded cat. Nurse falls in behind hollering in her best Tes/Mex at the knife guy trying to get things sorted out.

The whole parade makes about three circles of the car. All yelling and jabbering while Mommie in the back seat is screaming at the world in general.

Nurse finally catches up to the knife guy, grabs him from behind, she is a big old gal, and kind of hugs him up all the while hollering in his ear and settling him down.

He finally understands and settles down though he still ain't liking the Doc too much as he keeps eyeing him and holding the knife sort of making slow passes in the air with it and muttering.

Nurse and Doc retreat to the back seat of the car and do their business which don't take but a few seconds. World now has another little Mexican.

All the aunties and kids and even the knife guy are Ohhing and Ahing and kissy kissy.

I finally am able to quit laughing long enough to hear this Doc who has just been scared blonde, say, These people very insane, very insane. I doubt he tried speaking anymore Tex/Mex until he left the hospital a few months later.

BCR

I was ther three or four times as a kid for stitches in various places. The worst was three years ago when I flipped my four wheeler and broke my wrist. Two surgeries and five pins and I'm good as new.

Mike

Thanks Boggy, I'll be laughing about your E.R. story for the rest of today.

Let's see. I rode dirt bikes for years. Boxed for sport and fought for fun. Grew up in the country. Love fast cars. Yup.
And that doesn't even address the stupid crap I did.....
19 stitches on one side of the head.
21 on the other.
17 in back of the head. Pine tree almost killed me.
10 on the shin.
10 between my toes - ever been hurt playing badminton?
Broken nose 2x(that got treated.....).
Ribs 1x. Pine tree almost killed me.
March fractures - the right foot. Swingsets are hell.
Cut the width of my back, no clue what all it took to secure that. Pine tree almost killed me.

All of that in the first 25 years of my life.

In the next 20:

Severely sprained ankle.
Concussion. MRI and x-rays. Ice dern near killed me.

I know I'm missing a trip or two, but you get the general idea. Actually the pain in my knee as I moved it just reminded me of one.


Most recently:

A trip from a scare that involved blood coming from where it should not. Wound up to be nothing - come see us again in 10 years - as if I'll live that long after that scare. That incident involved one ER trip, one office visit, and one outpatient procedure. I mention all of that only because I don't miss a chance to credit the total professionalism and courtesy shown me in all three of those visits. Unlike anything I've seen before.

Life is fun if you take it fast. BTW, I outlived that damned pine tree that came the closest to killing me.

Hard to believe how tame I am now.....

2 sets of stitches.......one on my thumb the other under my chin.........from 3rd-6th grade......prolly a 100 or so due to severe asthma......was bad enough i actually stopped breathing a few times.....

Three or four times unconscious from heat exhaustion when I lived in Texas. My foot was run over by a car. Shattered collar bone and skull fracture. Exploded kidney, unknown congenital defect in a muscle cut off the kidney and it blew up like a water balloon, that one was real fun. Ripped most of the tendons in my left foot stepping in a gopher hole playing volleyball. Broken hip and large open abdominal rip bleeding all over the place from a horse kick. Tripped and cut open my eyebrow playing with my dog, 15 or so stitches worth. Probably a few more I don't remember at the time.

Had my first ever ambulance trip to the ER about three weeks ago. I was home alone working at my bench when I started to pass out. Went down like a boxer, then staggered up with my arms and legs all rubbery, got upstairs and called 911. My wife was at work. I spent the night in the hospital all wired up. That and x-rays and a stress test showed my ticker, etc. to be OK. They never figured out what made me go down, probably a momentary drop in blood pressure. All in all, a very expensive comprehensive physical exam. A week later my back went out. Old age isn't for sissies!

Paul

my parents philosophy growing up was walk it off, super glue, wait till the doctors office opens and once the vet, so my first E.R. trip was this past may my fiance had been gone for about 3 days and some how the day she left i got a steel sliver in my left eye, i didn't do any thing about it till she show up 3 days later drug my to the E.R. where they dug it out with a big needle thing and put a patch over my eye. probably a good thing she came home because my vison was starting to go blurry

let's see...

kidney stones x 6
stitches (mine) x 8-10
cut tendon (mine) x 2
dog bites (mine) x 2
broken bones (mine) x 12
dislocations (mine) x 2
broken bones ( my kids) x4
stitches (my kids) x1
Upper respiratory infections (kids) x2
MRSA (kids) x1
probably a few I'm not remembering so call it 50 times or so

For a hernia that I didn't take care of, and on Christmas eve of all times, and for going into shock and fear it was a heart attack.

Absolute worse time was when my daughter cut her femeral artory and nearly bled to death.

Yeh, Before I was 5 years old I fell out of Grandpa's car doin'-50 on the high-way, and a year later I was struck on the head by a friend's thrown brick. A little later I was shot in the face by a friend with a pellet rifle

After I turned 18 I still frequented the ER following: a car crash, a motorcycle crash, a big-dog-bite, a foot impalement incident, suffered a severe ruptured radiator hose arm-burn, and a horrible "I TOLD YOU SO !!!" thumb-web hatchet wound.

But now, after I grew up .... I only went in for a couple of heart-attacks.

I've been to the ER a few times. Two times to have steel taken out of my eye, 3 times for broken bones, and a couple of times to get stitched up.

Jamie