ER-tastic?

[Freya]

Had to go to the ER today, couldn't breathe. My LJ has details if you wanna know what happended.

ANYWAY: Have you ever had to go to the ER before and for what? How long was your wait etc etc.

I was in there for like 5-6 hours :/

[Bunny]

When I was younger, I fell off the top bunk of my bed onto a mess of toys and whatnot. I thought I broke a rib or two because it really hurt to move even slightly. My mother took me to the ER but everything was fine.

[qwertysaur]

The ER and my family... interesting stories.
Me: I cut my head open on a toy truck at the age of 1...
My sister: She dropped a table on her foot, and it was kinda crushed...
My Mom: She was pregnant with me...
My Dad: Had to go in for Brain Surgery after having a seizure...

[Momiji]

I was only taken to the emergency room once, and that's when I broke my toe when I was 10-ish.

My brother, however, has been taken to the emergency room multiple times. The most notable ones would be when we were in Florida, and he tripped at Halifax Mall, and hit his head against the corner of a wall. We went to the emergency room there, where I remember being yelled at 'GET OUT OF THE WAY, THIS OLD LADY IS BLEEDING RECTALLY!'. I was only like...9 years old then. My brother was 1 or 2. '

Another time was when we were out in the country visiting my grandmother, when my brother tripped yet again and busted his head open, and we had to drive like an hour to get to the closest medical center. Not an emergency room, but it was definitely one of the more uncomfortable sights in my life. I've never seen that much blood before.

[rubah]

I've been to the ER twice; once for having a wire stuck in my foot and once for having a rather severe staph infection xD

btw, 90% oxygen is pretty bad. That's what mine was when I had pneumonia. I want to say it's like being two miles above sea level :X

[Yar]

ER just ended Thursday.

I'VE BEEN TO THE ER 5 TIMES. Three times I was too young to remember.

Episode I: My grandmother dropped me on my head in the Kroger parking lot. She was afraid I was ruined.

Episode II: I was in a car accident when I was young. It must have been precautionary, because I'm fine today.

Episode III: As a toddler, my mom was holding my hand and we were walking in a crowded place. I was being stubborn and tried to either go the other way or no way at all and she pulled my shoulder out of place.

Episode IV: I BROKE MY ARM LOL

Episode V: Asthma attack oh noes!

EDIT: OPPS forgot one. I had blood poisoning once and they threatened (jokingly) to amputate and everyone was laughing but me.

[Vermachtnis]

Once, when I was little I stepped on a rusty nail. I had to get tectnis shot. I don't remember a whole lot, but ever since then I've a phobia of needles and nail like stuff. Also I have no idea how to spell tectnis and neither does FireFox.

[Værn]

Also I have no idea how to spell tectnis and neither does FireFox.

Tetanus, methinks. Or you could just say "lockjaw" to avoid having to spell it altogether.

And nope, I've never been to the ER.

[Vermachtnis]

Also I have no idea how to spell tectnis and neither does FireFox.

Tetanus, methinks. Or you could just say "lockjaw" to avoid having to spell it altogether.

And nope, I've never been to the ER.

What is an "A" doing in there!? I'm just gonna call lockjaw from now on.

[Jiro]

I don't think I've ever been to the ER. Well, that time I had an allergic reaction to an injection, but that was before I could remember.

My brother went when he crashed his dirtbike and fractured his upper arm, shoulder and collarbone. My mum went when she was having heart problems

He didn't go when I tossed a massive rock at him and split his head open (I was 6, he was 4). I didn't go when I greenstick fractured my arm, or when I had concussion.

Overall we avoid the ER by managing to stay relatively safe

EDIT: I also did not go to the ER when I cut my face on a desk fan. There was no cover on it, and I leant to change it and cut along my right eyebrow. Yay for almost losing an eye D:

[Freya]

LET'S SEE....

When I was 6-7ish I fell off a horse, had to get and MRI.

When I was 10 I broke my arm.

11 My bus crashed and they made me go since I hit my head.

14 when a girl fractured my nose o.o

17 when I got a horrible rash and allergic reaction.

17 when I rolled a truck

17 when I had major back problems.. which they never fixed -.-

18, went to the doctor in Jan for this thing, then again in Feb, they didn't fix me.

18 went to the ER when it finally hit me hard for this not breathing thing due to my nurse here at the college being like "OHMIGAWD" and sending me there.

Yeah they were all "you're oxygen levels are low... were gonna look at you." I'm like "Don't I need oxygen to breathe!?"

I should be sleeping, but I had a fever and it woke me up :/

EDIT: they should just build a wing for me o.o

[Iceglow]

I've been to the ER or Casualty as we call it many times for many reasons the worst one was when I went in via ambulance with a shattered jaw and still had to wait 4 - 5 hours in the normal waiting room bleeding out from the mouth. Then had to wait an hour or so for an X-ray and the Xray attendant had the audacity to complain "oh they sent you here still bleeding, they should have waited til it stopped!" Excuuuuussse me! but ya know shattered jaw, in lots of smurfing pain, not been given any morphine or anything yet and I'm expected to "bite" your smurfing plastic stick? And you're complaining I'm bleeding? I am barely smurfing concious here I've bled so much!

There was one time when after a successful pub crawl round Camden Town I went to the hospital having passed out in the night bus home. I ended up with 2 numbers and a date and a relationship. 1 was a Casualty Dr, she was cute but I only went for breakfast with her and txted a few times she was unfortunately too old for me at that point (30 when I was 18), the other was a girl who I honestly didn't remember but she pretty much carried me unconcious off the night bus, called the ambulance and went to the hospital with me to make sure I got there ok.

[trancekuja]

Only once. I broke my left arm. My bones were sticking out and I lost gallons of blood. In ER two doctors were operating on my arm while the other two were busy devouring a sandwich ,cracking jokes and listening to folk music. Aren't Croatian hospitals fun or what?

[Marshall Banana]

I've never been to an ER, and I will never go willingly! There's nothing I hate more than hospitals and needles; I'd destroy an entire nation of people, if it would get me out of a hospital trip.

I would.

[Psychotic]

That sucks, hope you're feeling better soon.

I've had injuries that I probably could've gone to the emergency room with, namely cracking the back of my head open on multiple occasions (the one good thing about my impending baldness is that I will finally get to see what kind of scars I have under there!) but I preferred to stay at home. It would take a lot to make me go to one willingly.