I think back to all the times I've rushed to the emergency room. Some times needlessly...
The time son slipped on a wet floor bathroom, hit his head and he passed out in my arms.
The time son was so sick and dehydrated. At least I thought so.
The time son was thrown from a pony and landed face down in a muddy ditch. Two feet over, it would've been hard gravel. He broke his arm.
The time daughter stuck her hand in the door as it opened. Her little hand so crimped. It plumped back out by the time we got in to see the emergency room doctor and then she was fine...
The time younger daughter stuck a rock up her nose to clean it.
The time a little friend stepped on younger daughters pinky and we thought it was broken.
The time my friend's son drank bath oil and we ran him over together. Before the days of "First Nurse".
You'd think they'd know me by now, huh? I know I'm missing some, but my brain is mush already today.
What are your emergency room stories?
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Its been a while but as a manager of a restaurant for years I've taken quite a few people to the emergency room. It usually involved knife slips/punctures, broken glass accidents, oil burns, the occasional loss of tip of finger and many a mandolin accident.
We've gone for the time my son got hit in the head with a golf club, the time a can of mountain dew fell onto his foot and split his toe open, when my daughter stuck a stick through her leg, and so much more.
I am seriously hoping I never have any to tell!
So far we have only had to take my little wombat twice. Once for high fever and once for her arm out of socket which corrected itself. Hope for no more, but I'm sure with as active a child she is, we will go back in the future.
Oh my goodness! Took my oldest sone to the ER cuz he had a high temperature for a long time.
Cut my finger on a pineapple can once and that was a 500 dollar super glue job. :( Mostly I kinda like watching the other people and figuring out what's wrong with em. Sick, huh?
omg now you have me totally freaked out!
I can so sympathize with all those stories! But, remarkably, we haven't had to take Punky to the emergency room in literally years.
Is it sad that all our ER trips the last few years have been for me (and one for MacGyver)?
Here's thanking Heaven and wishing that she remains as healthy and unbroken in the years to come.
ha! I'm laughing at Mimi's!
wow...you need frequent flyer miles for your ER...they could have added up by now for a nice vacation!
ah..i personally have been there twice for two separate car accidents...the 2nd one was bad...really really bad...i don't even remember the trip there..and the Surgeon had to sew my eyelid back on...not pretty.
then i had kids...i was fine for the first 7 years...then my little one came along and my clean streak was over...right before my youngest turned 2 he fell head first onto a tile step...split his head open above his eye...BAD...we rode to the ER in the ambulance that time..got some nice stitches....then right before he turned 3 he went head first into a fire hydrant...stitches in the middle of his head this time...then right after he turned 4 split the underneath of his chin open on the stairs..I'm a pro at this by now (well that and it was the evening of the 4th of July...)...so I fixed it up myself. Butterfly strips...perfect
most recent...oldest son to the ER after a football practice mishap...broken radius and 5th metacarpal.
PLEASE...no more...I'm done!
Dang! Having kids really keeps one in the ER. My emergency room story: for 15 months I had been telling dr after dr I had a brain tumor and no one was giving me a CT scan, my internist went so far as to say "70 percent of his female patients were psychosomatic." So when he told me to go to a shrink, I said if I did would he give me a CT scan? I went to his dr., he said I was well adjusted, I went home, turned on the tv, and the movie 'Dark Victory' with Bette Davis was on. SHE had a brain tumor. I had the same symptoms. I called my boss and said I was taking a medical leave, called a taxi, and went to the ER -- walked in, told them I had a brain tumor, and sure enough, an intern came down, looked into my eyes, and scheduled the CT scan. I was right, they operated, and for nine more years I was fine.....
Oh my gosh... we have avoided the emergency room for the boys. Both are too nerdy to rough it up enough for the ER. They both like to pretend that they have asthma in gym class to avoid any contact sport or exertion.
My daughter has not had to visit yet. But when my son was 10 months old he fell down the stairs so I took him in to make sure he hadn't broken anything. He is now 2 and very adventurous so I'm sure another visit isn't too far away!!
Trimming trees and I slammed the handles closed on my head, giving myself a concussion!
Oh my, some of these stories are like - wow. I'm just glad that there hasn't been anything major in quite a while!
Thanks for stopping by!
Leann
Not too many ER visits. I do remember these:
Daughter 19 months old jumping on my parents bed while they are both there watching her. She falls off and breaks her arm at the wrist.
Oldest son - Bent over to pick up a toy next to the brick hearth when he was 10 months old. Five stitches in his nose. That one nearly did me in.
I've made him sleep with injuries so we can go to the doctor instead of ER. Broke elbow at 22 months falling straight arm while running bases in the living room floor. (Took nine x-rays and three days to finally diagnose that problem.) Broke arm while wrestling on the trampoline with heavier friend. Rolled over his wrist and heard it pop. Broke collar bone while mountain biking.
Youngest son when he was 2 was playing with oldest son and starts screaming that his arm is hurt. We can't figure out what it is, but it's bad. ER waiting room. We pray and pray and then he miraculously starts using his hand to push himself up on the chair. We walk out before being seen.
Our ER is S-L-O-W. So if I can get by with it I don't go there.
My son fell off a chair and split his lip down to his chin - had to have cosmetic surgery (since it is the face), he was 3yrs old. Same week, daughter played jump rope in the kitchen, accidently hit a lysol can, it flew up and cracked her head open - staples in the back of her head. I was afraid they would call child services on me that week. Jump ropes are not allowed in my house anymore.
Oh my, usually when we go it's because the tots are having breathing issues related to their asthma and allergies.
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