Ever been to the ER? Story time!

[kosmo]

Yeah, Ive had a pretty messed up life. Theres a good deal more that I just didnt feel like posting after all that.

[Ishootyouinthewoods]

I've been to the ER a few time, dog bites, falling and busting my head/face, nothing too serious. The one time I should have gone to the ER I didn't. I was away at a lacross tounament for the weekend. I was on defence and decided to clear the ball by running it past the 50. As I neared the other teams goal one of the defenders checked me and my knee twisted, causing pain and putting me to the ground. A trainer diganosed me as having a sprained ACL and not to worry, just take 2 weeks off. Two weeks later I went to practice and the first drill I participated in, I planted my foot to cut left and my ACL, MCL and miniscus (cartilage) blew apart. After going to the ER I was informed that ACL was partialy torn the first time around and that I was misdiganosed by that quack of a trainer. So b/c some J/O trainer decided to skip class on ACL day my highschool sports career was effectivly ended. I am now 24 years old with a bum knee.

[Confused+Paintball=Broke]

Multiple concussions from hockey, but none worth going to the ER for. Ive been to the ER only 1 time(for myself).

These were close calls;

1. I was around 4 and was running from my older brother after breaking one of his lego creations. Ran down the stairs turned the corner and sprinted full speed at a couch down the hall, still dont know what i was thinking, but the couch was against the wall with 3 glass windows at head level. So im running and turn around to see where my bro is, stumble and fall onto the couch, bounce off and my head goes through the window. Luckily i didnt even cut my head at all, not even after shattering the window!

2. Later that year i stuck a fork in an outlet, gave me a good shock and knocked out power to half the house. Nobody knows for sure, but now i have curly hair(nobody else in either family does) so maybe thats where i got it.

This time i actually went the the ER;

So im playing the game i love(hockey), but a couple years higher than my age level. I was a Bantam playing in a midget 'AA' tourny and so 240 pound kids decides he wants to slow me down a bit. I dont even have the puck and he comes in knee first(BIG NO NO ) and drives his knee right into mine(ouch!), me being 140 my knee decided to give first. So im laying on the ice trying to get up and my leg just doesnt want to move, id never had to stop play for not getting up so i knew somthing was wrong right away. Once back in the locker room i take off my shin pads and my knee is swollen like a balloon! You couldnt see the kneecap at all, it was somewhere behind this big mass(softball size) of swelling. I was hoping it was just sprained, then the trainer came in and told my parents to take me to the hospital(damnit)! I knew that wasnt good, but we were on our way in a little 88 celica coupe(not much leg room) but it felt good to get some fresh air. After waiting in the ER for 2 hours or so i get called in for X-rays, later the dr comes in and tells me i broke my femur and growth plate! Spent the night in the hospital(this was on new years eve) and had surgory the next morning. Spent another 2 nights in the hospital, then got released and had a long 4 months on crutches and PT. It was hell, next time somone comes at me with a knee, im gonna crack some skulls


My brother on the other hand has had some cool friends;

Not only are his friends not the brightest, but he isnt either. In fact he managed to shoot superglue into his eye when he was 15(no joke). So my parents rush him to the ER and they end up washing out his eye Immediatly. Lucky for him he didnt wait, or he may have lost his eye!

Ive got a couple for one of his friends(brandon). First, he tried to run through a bon fire, and tripped right before he reached it, lucky for him he caught himself. Still got 2nd degree burns on both hands! Second time he was Rallying and rolled his truck, no roll cage. Managed to break his left wrist, elbow, and humerous(i think).

Then theres my dad;

Twice in the same month he had to get stitches for cracking his skull while using a fence pole driver.

[slade]

since everyone else is posting family stories, i might as well too.

way back when i was a little kid my older sister walked around barefoot all the time. ...one day she ended up stepping on a rather large nail placed conveniently in my family room, and it went straight through her foot. so what did she do? she walked calmly to our bathroom and pulled the nail out. my mother freaked out when she saw bloody footprints leading across our kitchen.

how did a large nail end up laying face up in my family room, you ask? i put it there. i was setting a trap for my mom. now that i think about it, stewie from family guy was pretty much modeled after me, except i had less weaponry and a bit more success, when i managed to make my mother fall in a trap hole i dug in my back yard.

[Pyroboy597]

lol@slade

My aunt was at her shorehouse when she was in her twenties and she kicked a bar stool coming around a corner by accident. The metal leg of the stool went in between her first and second toe and split them far enough to break them both, tear the ligament, and rip the skin in between them. Our small engines teacher at my high school had his fingers under a lawnmower and a kid pulled the cord (he asked him too). He did not realize the blade was off balance, and it spun and slit the back of all five fingers almost taking his index finger completely off. I felt bad for the kid.

[grEnAlEins]

how did a large nail end up laying face up in my family room, you ask? i put it there. i was setting a trap for my mom. now that i think about it, stewie from family guy was pretty much modeled after me, except i had less weaponry and a bit more success, when i managed to make my mother fall in a trap hole i dug in my back yard.

OMG that was awesome slade!

[Lohman446]

Hehe.. those stupid little things that happen

I have old John Deere Crawler that I use from time to time (yeh, me and tracked power equipment, see this as a bad thing). It quit one day, well the distributor had rattled loose and timing was off. So I take a guess as to where it should be, crank it a few times, no start, make some adjustments and then get ready to start it. The thing cranks over twice and backfires, I happen to be watching the rain cap on top of the exhaust when it does and apparently I never tightened that bolt. I watch the entire thing go up into the air. Now I have time to think "darn, how am I ever going to find that" or something similar. I happen to be looking up when it catches me in about the center of the forehead. I'm sitting in the seat thinking wow, that should have hurt a lot worse. Then my eyes start stinging and I realize I'm bleeding pretty heavily from the cut. My kids are in the living room of the house, and thats the only door unlocked at the time, and I really don't want to scare them. So I take my shirt off to try to at least slow down the bleeding. I knock on the window to get my ex wife to open the front door - who looks at me associates big bang with gun, and about comes unglued. I ended up cleaning up the cut (I keep a lot of peroxide around my house), taping it together as best as possible, and bandaging it - had a neat scar about three inches long on my head for awhile.

Another time I'm walking barefoot through my work area in the basement and apparently there was a broken light bulb on the floor. I feel like a three inch long piece break skin and go into my foot. I hobble up to the bathroom and begin pulling out. About then my ex comes in whining about the path of blood I left.

I tend to avoid the hospital when I can, because I hate spending hours there unless its a severe wound, so I taped that one up too.

[etjoyride]

I have spent many an hour in the ER room. Ever since i was about 3 i have been going there- stabbed my head with pencil, ran into a TV and gashed my head, hit my head on a desk and had a hole(yes i get a lot of head injuries), and 2nd most recently(i think) I got mad at this kid while at camp(2 1/2 yrs ago) and as he closed a pane glass door i punched out towards him (not to hard though like a hard tap on the head), now keep in mind this is 50 year old glass, and of course i broke thorugh it and got an inch and a half gash on my left forearm, i couldn't feel it at all. HOwever the kid on the receiving end had both wirsts badly cut, a split big toe, and a slightly cut face. I only had to get 5 stiches while he had 20 or so. However, the worst part(or best depednding on how you look at it) is that while his healed into nice regualr scars, mine got infected several times and never closed correctly so that by the time it had new skin it was(and still is) an inch and a half long half an inch wide, and each stich hole was(still is) 1/4 inch long...This has the effect of making it look like i have a badly drawn scorpion tattooed on my arm. Oh well who's next?

[RoadDawg]

4th grade... temporarily paralyzed for 8 hours. Couldn't feel a thing from my shoulders down, couldn't move my toes, fingers arms, etc. I was taped to a board for 9 hours. (DR's were doing tests) Pinched a nerve and luckily it recovered. The "pinching" action is what left me w/o feeling.

[Pyroboy597]

4th grade... temporarily paralyzed for 8 hours. Couldn't feel a thing from my shoulders down, couldn't move my toes, fingers arms, etc. I was taped to a board for 9 hours. (DR's were doing tests) Pinched a nerve and luckily it recovered. The "pinching" action is what left me w/o feeling.

That had to be scary.

[Cameo]

I can not count the number of times I have been to the ER. Some sad times, some just others freaking out, and some for the kids... This is the one that is the oddest..

On Valentines day about 7 years ago I got a phone call at work that I had to go to the emergency room right away my son had been hurt (he was just a few months old at the time). I get up there and all of my ex's family is there.. His mother comes up to me in tears just saying "I am sorry I am soo sorry" ect. I get to where my son is and I have no clue what happened.. He is laying on the exam table there are a few nurses around playing with him, he has on a neck brace, marker marks, and a huge bruise on his head... Looks like he had been crying but for now seems happy smiling at the nurses... I am not allowed to pick him up and then he passes out..Just kinda instanley.the nurses spring into action, my ex family started freaking out so the nurses rush everyone out the the area... While in the waiting room I encounter my ex's father. He was always the level headed one in a mist of screaming banchies. I questioned why we were there with 15 of his closest relatives. He finally told me that my sons uncle was playing with him lifting him up and down like adults do... (Mind you that this guy is 6 foot 5, the ceilings are fairly low, and thier is a ceiling fan). Aparenetly he lifted my son into the ceiling fan that was on high... My son was immediately knocked out, the ambulance was called, and thier family went nuts like they always do.
My son ended up staying in the hospital for a few days just because of the nature of the accident.. He seems to be just fine now... Not perminate damage, I think. My biggest worry is that he does not start show signs of the inhereted stupidity that runs on that chromosone.
Although all is not well that ends well...As you might have guessed the uncle is not the brightest, and sadley he now has children of his own...

[minkus962]

Aparenetly he lifted my son into the ceiling fan that was on high...

Priceless...

Never had to be rushed to the ER, but I did get to have a metal rod inserted into my pinky, as I broke it punching my brother, waited 'till it healed and decided that I should get it fixed. Nothing cooler than watching on live x-ray camera as they numb my hand up, drill a hole through my pinky, re-break my pinky and the shove a steel rod into it. Fun times.

That is seriously the weirdest thing I have ever seen though... Actually watching as the bones in your finger break in real time, without feeling a thing.

[pbfrek]

well.... this is sort of my moms story. I havnt been to the er yet

Well... im watching tv. most of the lights are off. my mom comes out, and rubs one of our dogs, jesse, with her foot, and shuts off the rest of the lights. on her way over towards jesse again, she felt some warm liquid on the floor... mom thought jesse had taken a piss on the floor. she turned on the light, and it was blood. lots of it. a big puddle. jesse bit mom, sliced through all the nerves, so mom couldnt feel a thing in her leg at the time, and had taken a big chunk out of her leg... including some major artery. dad took mom to the er, and she had like 70 stiches...

nasty bite lol. after maybe a year, she still has a scar about 3 inches long on her leg.