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Wed Feb-15-06 10:29 AM
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What's the last thing you were seen in an ER for? |
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I fell and hit my head. I had a concussion.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:30 AM
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2. Ugh. I've never had that. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:32 AM
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7. I have had it more times than I can count |
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Immune compromise issues are such fun.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:35 AM
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I suppose being in MN isn't the ideal environment for someone prone to pneumonia, either.:-( :hug:
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:35 AM
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16. I do not think climate matters much. |
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There was this old toothless woman who was in the last throws of alcoholic dementia in the little cubby hole next to me....
She kept yelling and yelling Help Me Jesus, Take Me Away....
And then a Russian Doc came in to see me....
I am really aware of my illness and the consequences when I contract the big P....
I told him that my cough was not productive yet that I needed more liquid and that my temp was higher than he thought because my normal temp is around 96.7... It was at 99.2, high for me...
He looked at me in a very condesending way and said... Who is doctor... You or me....
I demanded another doctor who would at least listen to what I knew about my illness....
I never saw that doc again....
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Thu Feb-16-06 06:31 AM
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I hate doctors that assume I know nothing about my body.
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10. Hmmm, Texas - my guess is hunting with Cheney! |
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:34 AM
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14. Guy called me a liar. |
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and I was a hair faster than him.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:31 AM
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let's just say that if a gastric bypass patient must eat gummy bears, they should do so VERY SLOWLY.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:33 AM
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9. Oh no! That's a new one! |
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:33 AM
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It was minor. They were ruling out cracked ribs. Ouch.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:34 AM
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They needed to do x-rays, but that area of the hospital was out of water at the moment! :o
Yes, that's what they told me. :wtf:
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:34 AM
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I had bronchitis and had pulled a chest wall muscle while coughing. Had a hard time breathing, so off I went to the ER since it was a Saturday morning. The muscle relaxers they prescribed helped tremendously.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:34 AM
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13. A broken leg . . . about 15 years ago or so |
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Broke it skating a half-pipe.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:41 AM
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22. and there ended your Olympic dreams of winning the |
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I :cry: for you.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:42 AM
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23. Hehehe, in my case, more like the snowboarding lead |
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Is there a lead medal? :P
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:36 AM
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17. Last Thursday. Chest Pains |
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Turned out to not be heart, but BP was way too high and i have a GI disorder that, combined with high BP, made it seem like a heart attack. Now on two meds for each condition. They seem to be working! My BP was normal this morning and my GI feels better. The Professor
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:36 AM
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18. Kidney Infection. N/t |
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:37 AM
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19. More of a clinic than an ER, but I had a chip of paint fly into my |
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:46 AM
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27. Damn . . . . must be fate. That chip was MEANT to fly into your eye |
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if you had that much protection and it still made it through.
It was destiny man!
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:52 AM
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I spent longer getting people to believe that I actually was wearing both pairs than I did in the ER under the UV light
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:39 AM
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the morning of my brother's funeral. Trying to explain to ER staff that I really don't want to tell my mom that I won't make it to the funeral on time.........Darvocet is my friend.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:40 AM
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21. extreme UTI infection |
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I didn't know it at the time. But I was severely dehydrated and my BP was bottoming out. I couldn't stand up or take fluids in. They just ran right through me.
Ugh. I don't ever remember feeling that bad.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:45 AM
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26. After I'd been in a taxi accident in Calcutta |
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Last year. The driver fell asleep (I guess) and turned his taxi on to its roof. We got out okay and caught our flight, but when I got back I was still in some pain.
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UGH. (It was the middle of the night, and it was the first time this had happened, and it was scary.)
The last time I went to an "urgent care center" (a walk-in clinic, not an ER) was for a double ear infection and sinus infection.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:47 AM
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29. Soda syphon (seltzer bottle) exploded in my hand. |
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Plastic bottle used with a CO2 cartridge to make seltzer for drinks. 7 stitches.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:48 AM
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It presented some of the same symptoms as congestive heart failure. Thank heavens it wasn't- some antibiotics and a few days of bed rest and I was over it.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:49 AM
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31. Gall bladder attack. A month before it was a heart attack. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:15 AM
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36. Wow, that's a tough run of luck. |
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I hope that was more than a few months ago--I want you to break that streak BikeWriter!
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:06 PM
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51. Thank you. Those emergencies were in 2004... |
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The heart attack was July 3rd. We were preparing to practice for the July 4th party.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:10 AM
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33. I STABBED myself in the abdomen with a SCREWDRIVER! - College memories! |
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The most recent trip was for a tetanus shot after I caught my arm on a rusty old hinge while working at the parents place. But my most memorable ER story happened about 15 years ago. I was in college and had gotten one of those Nerf basketball hoops with the soft spongeball. After putting it up, I put the screwdriver in my pocket and we started playing basketball. I went up for a rebound and came down on the floor. The screwdriver drove up into my abdomen. It was a pretty big flathead screwdriver, so I thought I had punctured my stomach or some vital organ. We went to the ER and they took some x-rays, sonograms and some other tests that I don't remember. Turns out it missed everything important, except my pride. But I got a bunch of free beers out of the story.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:11 AM
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34. A broken collarbone when I was 13. |
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I had just gotten my bicycle that day. I lost control and flew over the handlebars, landed badly and broke my collarbone.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:14 AM
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35. Pancreatitis. Now THAT was a good time. |
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Nothing like a four day stay in a $4000/night hotel...er, hospital.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:16 AM
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working!
Honestly, I cannot remember the last time I was seen in an ER for anything...
It has been years, thank goodness!
:hi:
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:16 AM
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38. Bullet fragment in my leg. |
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It was a hunting accident, believe it or not, and had nothing to do with Cheney. Timely question, though.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:18 AM
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39. Labor - very very very very long labor. |
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The beginning of a 56 HOUR LABOR. Here's my 56 hour baby now.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:58 AM
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How'd they let you go that long?
(Glad something good came out of it, though!)
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:26 AM
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40. My eye was swollen shut from poison ivy. |
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And I had to drive myself.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:28 AM
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They had to reimplant with a skin graft.
A good time was had by all!
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Does it work now?
Ouch--hope you have better luck in the future.
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:35 PM
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56. It works pretty well, thanks... |
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The surgeon did a great job. I have 100% motion, but it's about 1/2" shorter than the other one, and some of it has no feeling, but it works well enough that I rarely even think about it anymore.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:29 AM
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Completely my fault. Breaking up a fight between two of my pups, and I made a mistake by grabbing at a collar with too much slack. Hurt like hell.
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I was having my second miscarriage in six months.
Fortunatley, I was finally diagnosed with a blood clotting disorder and was able to go on and have three beautiful boys with the help of anticoagulants :-)
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I'm glad you got your boys.
And you reminded me, the most recent time I was at the ER was because I was miscarrying and needed Rhogam. I had completely blocked that memory.
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I didn't mean to bring up bad memories for you. :hug: I had to have those Rhogam shots too. They aren't the most pleasant things.
I thought that after having children I would not have as hard a time in regards to my miscarriages, but I still have a very difficult time on the anniversary dates of the losses. I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm really sorry to bring that memory back into your head. If there is anything that I can ever do for you or you just need to talk please don't hesitate to contact me.
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I didn't mean to worry you. :hug:
I was just surprised that it wasn't the first thing I thought of when I read this thread title.
It happened between my two, and if I had carried that one to term I wouldn't have my younger son. But the anniversaries are rough.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:32 AM
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I wasn't in much pain, and they weren't even sure that's what I had. With a nice painkiller in me, I popped out a stone like a human PEZ dispenser the very next morning.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:49 AM
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45. Severely sprined ankle...thought it was broken...nt |
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:50 AM
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46. I fractured a man's testicle. |
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I felt bad so I escorted him to the ER.
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One of the characters in the Naked and the Dead suffers from that--I was always curious, but never thought to look it up. Now I'll just ask you!
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:58 PM
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63. Inflammation of the kidney... |
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in my case, caused by an infection.
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Wed Feb-15-06 11:59 AM
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50. Food poisoning while pregnant. I was severely dehydrated. n/t |
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Second time in my life. Both times were because I partied too hard.
I am quite responsible now. (Not that I get to party a lot anymore, what with work, my band, and preparing everything for the birth of my first child)
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:09 PM
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55. Ian McLargehuge swallowed a dime |
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and it lodged in his throat.
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58. Severe cramping and some spotting |
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:37 PM
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59. Never been "seen" in an ER, though I have waited for others .... |
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Waiting to be seen can be quite an ordeal.
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Wed Feb-15-06 12:37 PM
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60. Cracked hip. Slipped on ice. |
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62. Broken toe -- had the worst resident ever |
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I went in because I couldn't get a shoe on that foot and I was hoping they could give me a cast boot or something because I had to work the next day. I had to wait for two hours then got a resident who told me that nothing could be done for broken toes and to go home. I explained that I needed something to put on my foot and he said "So, basically you want to get some attention from your co-workers." Since he was holding my five inch thick file, I suggested that he if he read it he would know that I had had an operation for a fairly rare brain tumor at that same hospital two years earlier and had much more exotic medical conditions I could use to try and suck sympathy out of my co-workers (not that I do)and that nobody wastes a perfectly gorgeous July afternoon sitting in an emergency room to hear that from some disgruntled resident. He kind of mumbled something, got me the cast boot, then told me to go home and take some aspirin or ibuprofen for the pain. Of course, I am allergic to both aspirin and ibuprofen which he'd have known if he had read the file and/or the thing I had to fill out that was in his hand. I told him his methods and bedside manner left a lot to be desired, left, and called my otolaryngologist who is also a bigwig at the hospital and reported the guy. My doctor went straight down to ER and chewed the hell out of the guy. It was great.
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Wed Feb-15-06 01:08 PM
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64. I was hitting on some wounded chicks. |
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and it was at the bottom of the hill, going slow... and WACK!!! Concussion.
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We have an urgent care as well as an ER, so we tend to go to the UCR because it's faster and cheaper and more effective.
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Wed Feb-15-06 01:20 PM
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68. my paycheck...oh you mean as a patient? |
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69. upper respiratory infection |
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it was about 2:30 a.m. and my chest felt like it was full of broken glass
all i could do was cry, which would make me cough, which would make me cry more...you get the picture
i just wanted something to make the pain go away so i could sleep
before that it was an extremely severe panic attack
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well, dehydration because of Tamiflu. It makes women vomit a lot. I couldnt eat or drink anything for several days.
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71. Just three days ago I went to the ER b/c of agonizing pain |
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In my left leg (which I know is caused by a disc problem in my spine). The drugs my doctor had prescribed did not help at all (first Darvocet then Vicodin) so I paged my doctor on Sunday afternoon. He wasn't on call but another doctor told me to double up on the Vicodin (these were 750mg of the extra strength Vicodin), so in my desperation to get rid of the tremendous pain, I did as he told me and spent the next couple of hours puking my guts out. With pain persisting, by the way.
I went to the ER and was seen by the most amazing doctor who had just had surgery for the exact problem I have. He held my hand and said "I know exactly what you're going through and I'll make sure you get some relief" - I almost cried when he said that. He prescribed Prednisone (for inflammation), Flexiril (muscle relaxer), and Percocet (for the pain) and I actually felt amazing relief. Last night I ran out of the Percocet and had to spend half of my morning today (in terrible pain, of course) explaining to my family doctor that I needed a refill. His nurse told me to take two Vicodin! I wanted to choke her through the phone. (Keep in mind that I had called his office on Monday morning and told them of my O.D. from the double dose of Vicodin and also told them about the new scripts - they acknowledged that I'd likely need a refill before my follow-up appointment with him which is Friday.) It was like pulling teeth to get that damn refill but thankfully I have it now and feel much better. If we know what works, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE IN PAIN!! :mad:
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:19 PM
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73. A tip. I found that if the vicodin isn't cutting it(as frequently happens) |
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Don't take more (you already know why), just do 1, and only 1, shot of booze (I like vodka). Wow! Like the difference between night and day.
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:37 PM
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77. 10 CM kidney stone... |
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it wouldn't fit down the channel.
Oh Lordie, they had me where they wanted me...
The nurse mocked me for dancing in pain.
The doctor pushed too hard on it...
I drove myself out of there eventually.
For five days I basically told 'em to self fornicate.
Then I got internet smart. All you need is jump and bump and let physics do the work.
Then I changed my diet.
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Wed Feb-15-06 06:54 PM
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Hope you feel better, Prophetess! :hug:
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:02 PM
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I feel pretty good on this 3-drug combo but I just don't like the runaround that I went through today. I have an appointment with my family doctor (who has a well-established relationship with me and knows about my disc problem and knows I'm not a drug seeker) on Friday and I'm going to really put my foot down about my treatment. I refuse to suffer any more - it's been weeks of pain off and on and lately it's been TERRIBLE.
I am forever thankful for that empathetic ER doc. He knew exactly what to give me to help.
I hope you are doing well! Hopefully, we'll meet up at another gathering before long. :hi:
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:18 PM
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72. Acute pain in the lower right quadrant :P |
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It was on the day of Beware the Beast Man's Bachelor party weekend. He still claims I did this on purpose, but my mom (the nurse) freaked me out with all these stories of exploding internal organs so I went to the ER.
But I was fine. They found a cyst and sent me home and told me to see my doctor. Beast Man still got his Bachelor weekend. He came home on Sunday with a huge grin and glitter on his face.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:04 PM
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135. Yes, the exploding organ stories can get to you! |
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So, where did that glitter come from? :+
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:30 PM
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74. Almost cut off my thumb! |
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And, no, it wasn't Dick Cheney. ;)
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:35 PM
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76. not counting the various progspawn visits in the last few months.... |
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I was in the ER for a softball-induced head gash that required 10 staples.
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:40 PM
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and you had a really funny smiley to commemorate it. :)
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:39 PM
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78. A roughly 4 inch gash on my forehead. |
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Administered by the claws of a hundred-pound dog, who was fixated on a ball that had been thrown to me, and who was too clueless to understand that it might be damaging to, say, jump up and land on a human's face.
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:39 PM
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79. Barfing my brains out - splitting headache - BP 199 /150 |
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reaction to anesthesia from my colonoscopy earlier that day.
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:47 PM
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80. Wow, we sure do surivive in the face of a gillion things that can go wrong |
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:52 PM
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:55 PM
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82. They said *psychosis*....late January 2001.... |
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....with the battle ragin' over the election...and my *christian* family wanting my grandmother to just DIE and took her off life support(which I begged since October for them to get her some real HELP and other medical opinions) and she LIVED after 7 days without any fluids or feedin' tube...I hadn't slept in over a week...took some morphine cough syrup and a couple 10mg Lorcets to attempt to sleep and FREAKED smooth out the next day all wired and cussed my sister in her church parkin' lot...bein' the *christians* she and m'bro-in-law were..they had me taken to the charity hospital ER instead of hauled off to jail for disturbin' the peace...and then off to spend the next few DAYS in the psyche ward durin' *ush's inaugrual with some REALLY crazy people..then spent the next several months suffering from the medications the *doctor* thought I needed to be on for my *depression* which made me so much WORSE...sigh...live and learn. :nopity:
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Wed Feb-15-06 02:56 PM
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83. Fell of a roof, tore the ligaments in my foot. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:39 PM
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Summer of 2001. Awoke with the most awful pain I've ever felt. Crushing chest, upper arm, jaw pain and nausea. ER admitted me, did tests and found one enzyme level was up. I remember the Dr. saying enzyme tests indicated something was going on with my muscles. They did a heart catherization and said I had some placque but nothing bad. I stayed in the hospital for 3 days and was released to see my regular Dr...who was an absolute ASS! He put me on anti-depressants and never answered any questions about what caused it. I changed Dr's and still never found out what really happened. We moved back here a few years ago and I haven't seen a Dr. since.
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:47 PM
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I fell down the stairs at home and landed on my side/back.
I thought I was fine, but the next day I felt REALLY sick and started barfing all over the place.
I hadn't barfed in 18 years, so I decided it was time for a trip to the ER.
They decided I was mostly okay, and didn't need to be sent in an ambulance to Fresno for an MRI. Since I didn't have insurance, that was VERY GOOD news. They sent me home with anti-nausea meds and vicodin.
That was back in early October, and I still feel a bit off. I need to go back to the doctor and have it followed up on. :(
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:47 PM
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Edited on Wed Feb-15-06 04:48 PM by SoCalDem
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:48 PM
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89. Major Depression -- Suicide Watch |
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I still had to wait almost twelve hours to get admitted, although I'd called ahead and confirmed they had a bed for me.
Before that, it was when I got hit in the nose when a hand-chopper fell off an overhead shelf and landed blade-side down on the bridge of my nose. There wasn't enough skin for stitches, so they had to glue it back together. That was summer 2001.
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:50 PM
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90. Stress fracture of my foot. |
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This is a funny one. I had been kicking back in the recliner, and didn't realize that my foot had fallen asleep. When I went to get up and stepped down on it, my foot just went out from under me, and broke. Now, THAT'S klutzy. (The Vicodin was good, though.)
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:53 PM
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91. I had an ectopic pregnancy and thought I was hemorrhaging! |
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:scared: It was scary!! Basically I was hemmorrhaging, but I went to the ER just in time!
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:53 PM
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92. My mother's car accident |
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I'm still taking care of her.
PS—you do not want to know what it's like getting stomach flu while you're in a neck brace. >.<
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:54 PM
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93. Bad infection in my hand. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:57 PM
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Turned out not to be one, but I got to spend the night in the cardiac unit... :shrug:
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:58 PM
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95. tubal pregnancy about 20 years ago |
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:59 PM
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97. Me too, but about 2 years ago! |
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Were you able to have a child?
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:03 PM
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and I'm childless now past menopause. It was hard then, but probably just as well it happened the way it did.
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:04 PM
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100. My husband and I are trying. I am hopeful! |
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I am sorry for you though!
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:07 PM
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102. good luck! you'll do fine I'm sure |
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and isn't "trying" fun??? :evilgrin:
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Wed Feb-15-06 04:58 PM
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:00 PM
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98. Dislocated jaw, from yawning. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:06 PM
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101. Walked through a pane glass window |
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:08 PM
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An 18 pound box fell on the back of my neck.
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:11 PM
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104. Metal sliver in the eye |
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I was mowing and I must have run over something weird because suddenly my eye felt like something was in it.
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:11 PM
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105. Not an ER, but urgent care- lacerated finger; 5 stitches. |
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I cut it on a wine glass while doing dishes. :blush:
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:53 PM
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106. Never been for myself. Had to take a roommate who was hit by a car. |
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That ER was SCARY, too. Just in the middle of the day, in a two hour stretch--almost twenty new patients. In a city of less than 100,000. SCARY. And most of them were in a LOT more trouble than my roommate (bruised spleen, cracked rib, that was all).
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Wed Feb-15-06 05:55 PM
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Just thinking about that pain makes me wince.
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Wed Feb-15-06 06:44 PM
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crossing our Main St years ago. A guy anticipated the light and hit me before I was all the way across. I didn't see my life flash before my eyes but looking up Main St from lying in the middle of it, it kind of felt like watching everything on a slow motion camera and I don't remember hearing the sounds of the traffic. The EMT when they got there said I was in shock.
The ride in the ambulance to the ER was a unique experience. I was strapped to the backboard in case I had a back injury. I think I was more worried about sliding out the door or tipping over. I don't want to have to go through that experience again.
Luckily I only had a few minor bumps and bruises, all though I still get bad arthritis pains in my knees on occassion which I never had before I knocked them on the pavement in that accident.
When I went into the ER, the lady doc, said to me, "thank God you are not dead. I was sure they would be bringing you in DOA because people drive like maniacs on that St. Then she told me how she was crossing the street with her baby in the stroller and how she had to yank it up with all her might to get out of the way of some moron who ran the light." She was very nice to me because she empathized so much.
The only bad thing was I really had to go the bathroom and they wouldn't let me get up until the exrays came back. Finally when my sister got there she went to the patient advocate and said "she's really got to go," and luckily they had just gotten my exrays and the all clear so I could go. LOL.
Sadly some one did get killed on our Main St last year for the same reason. Some one jumped the light and hit a poor old man, who was sort of a fixture down town. Personally I don't think they leave the crosswalk signals on long enough before they turn the traffic lights.
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Wed Feb-15-06 06:45 PM
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Wed Feb-15-06 06:51 PM
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110. I got hit by a pickup while standing on a street corner |
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waiting to cross the street.
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Wed Feb-15-06 06:52 PM
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:08 PM
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113. I spent the night in ICU. |
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Because I drank too much booze one night last month.
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:12 PM
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114. Delivered Thai food to my wife who is an ER nurse. |
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:16 PM
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115. Cut my index finger badly |
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while completing an art project. Nice stichery. Can hardly see the scar and have pretty close to full movement these days.
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:17 PM
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116. I cut my arm off with a chainsaw. |
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Actually it was the tip of my finger with an electric hedge clipper. But to me it SEEMED MUCH WORSE!
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:21 PM
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seven stitches in my ear. As a matter of fact the attending commented while looking at my records that my last three visits to his emergency room were for animal bites.
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:31 PM
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118. I collapsed at work in November 2004... |
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Wait, that was something else...
No, this was in 2002: I had a HUGE abscess under my left armpit. It had already started leaking into me (I felt it 'pop'), with red streaks only beginning to show...
I was also denied the "OK" to go to the clinic to have it checked out.
Pity I didn't die. Even my parents would have sued at that point...
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:32 PM
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119. Migraine headache in May 1999 |
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The day the last episode of Seinfeld aired and I really wanted to see it then. Now that I've seen it I realize I didn't miss much.
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:35 PM
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My arm looked like Popeye's.
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:43 PM
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122. You WON'T BELIEVE me, but this is, sadly, TRUE |
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I was brushing my teeth. I left the bathroom to watch the last 5 minutes of the Daily Show in the den. I watched, brushing my teeth, and then needed to spit. I turned to head back down the hall. I slipped and slammed into the wall. Or, should I say, the hilt of my toothbrush slammed into the wall. The head of the toothbrush WENT THROUGH THE BACK OF MY THROAT. Blood. Screams. BLOOD. ER. MRIs. Damn you, Stewart, for being so irrisistably funny!
**Feel free to use this as a cautionary tale to your children**
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:58 PM
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124. That actually was one of the re-enactments on Rescue 911 |
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A little boy, maybe four years old was brushing his teeth and for some reason fell. The same thing happened. I will never forget that one. I always stand with my kids while they are brushing their teeth. That must have been horrible!
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Wed Feb-15-06 07:47 PM
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123. Fell off my bike when I was 14 in 1987. |
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Hit my face on the sidewalk. Had to have stitches put in on my chin.
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Wed Feb-15-06 08:00 PM
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125. Irregular heartbeat/palpitations |
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Wed Feb-15-06 08:04 PM
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127. Small piece of glass in my foot |
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Got blood poisoning. 1971. Mr 'pede went to the VA ER last summer with a perforated ulcer. Not good, had emergency surgery, spent 10 days in hospital.
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Wed Feb-15-06 08:07 PM
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128. I sawed through the top of my thumb |
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Wed Feb-15-06 08:14 PM
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129. I fell in a hole in the raised computer room floor at work |
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)in the middle of the night) - got 12 stitches in my shin - damn, the intern doc was cute as hell and I so regretted not having shaved my legs. :o
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Wed Feb-15-06 08:25 PM
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The guy was huge but my cuts turned out to be superficial. All the blood made it look worse than it was.
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Wed Feb-15-06 09:52 PM
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132. severe abdominal pain, secondary to IBS |
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hits me every once in a while and just knocks me for a loop
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Wed Feb-15-06 09:56 PM
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133. Treble hook imbedded in my thumb |
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It was the second time I was in the ER for a hook. You think I'd learn.
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Wed Feb-15-06 10:15 PM
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137. Appendicitis. Ouch!! nt |
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Thu Feb-16-06 07:31 AM
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139. Decompression sickness (The Bends) |
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Didn't have it, but they had the chamber on standby. Unfortunately, the divemaster who decided I was bent made a radio call that made everyone (including my wife, who was with me on this trip) think I'd had a heart attack or was otherwise expiring...when our boat got back to shore one of the assembled people asked "which one's bent?," because my slightly-prone-to-seasickness assistant was looking a little worse than me and I was sitting up in the bow, kicking back with my bootied feet up on the anchor, shades in place, trying to look as unbent as possible and wishing all the onlookers, science people, support people, paramedica, and law enforcement would just go away. Had a huge boatload of tourists go past, taking photos and video of me getting examined back at the dock, before they whisked me off to the hospital. Very impressive emergency procedures, including law enforcement officers on hand (in the words of one of them, when I asked why they were there) "in case you die."
The entire experience courtesy of an overzealous and relatively inexperienced NOAA divemaster -- I knew I wasn't bent. The ER doctor was so excited by the lung volume results on my NOAA dive physical -- part of the medical package that went with me -- that he started showing it to other doctors and nurses. I was a celebrity... :D
That was 11 years ago. I've been in plenty of ERs since then, but never for myself.
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