So I've been sick over the past week lately which is why I haven't been coming on to the forums lately. I'm sick with the flu... I had a headache for a few days, extreme fatigue the first day I was sick, I started getting a runny nose two days ago and now I have a bad cough and my throat hurts. No, not sore, hurt. So I just wondered maybe I would go to the hospital and then it occurred to me, do people even regularly get hurt or sick enough to go to the emergency room. So if you could just post either yes, no, or possibly but my memory sucks and I don't want to ask my parents right now, I would appreciate it, and if you could elaborate on why you went to the emergency room, So yes, I've been to the emergency room when I was very little. I got my brother mad, and he chased me into my mom's room. I was running as fast as possible and I looked back to see if he was still chasing me, which he was, and when I looked back to the front, I saw the window... and I broke it... I remember seeing a lot of blood coming out from this one place in my left hand's middle finger. I went to the emergency room and got it sewn up. The lady who had sewn up my middle finger gave me a whole box of stickers because she thought I was brave. I still have that scar to this day, it's like this piece of skin that got folded onto the other half. Wow lot's have changed in the week or so I haven't been here... All these wonderful new people with their enlightening posts.
In answer to the thread name.... More times than I care to count. We got pretty god hospitals in the area, pretty new and stuff, so I've only been in life threatening danger a few times. Still, it's never fun. And it smells like blood.
Uhhh... What? I've never been personally, but had to wait outside of one when my brother got really sick when travelling to Perisher, once. Didn't turn out to be anything serious, just some bad stomach cramps or something, I forget, but looking back it was pretty funny 'cause it was just in some small country town. Nothing like what you'd imagine an decent sized hospital's emergency ward to be like.
i broke my leg at school, i didn't want an ambulence even though they should have called one. My mom took me in the van to the emergency room. It was broken pretty badly. It had both the tibia and the fibula (bones in the lower leg) with a spiral (diagonal) fracture that separated it from the growth plate (the base of the bone that lets your leg grow) it was awful. I later got surgery for it and two pins in my leg. But i was never in any life threatening danger while there.
I was sent in once from a hyper-extension injury that I got during a soccer game. I was playing forward and had been passed the ball when my right-wing rounded the defense. I was preparing to kick it straight in when I was slid tackled by the goalie way out of the goalie box. The ER is not so bad until you need to urinate but you cannot get up and have to do your business in front of every other person in the ER into a bottle. Riding the ambulance was a pretty cool experience, it was like being Moses except in reverse. Oh and I was charged for air when I wasn't even administered any breathing apparatuses.
Twice, and both happened at boarding school. The first time was last May. Exams were all done with and the only thing left to do was to pack and count down the hours until were got out. My friends and I were horsing around, and I my left ring-fingernail caught on my lanyard clip, tearing the nail almost completely off. I went to the ER, where the doctor shot the finger with enough Novocaine to make the finger increase noticeably in size. in the end they decided to leave the dead nail, saying that the best way to cover the nailbed is naturally. The second time (can't remember if I posted a thread about it, it was a pretty funny story) I had a dream about Zergling/giant cricket monsters, which scared me enough that I jumped out of my top bunk in my sleep. I split my elbow open on my trunk and had to get three stitches. Neither was particularly fun, but the fingernail incident was the worse of the two by far. The dead nail fragment has fallen off, and the new nail is 90-95% grown. The annoying part is the way the new nail grew in - it's growing down at an angle instead of out, making the tip of my finger really sore and tender all the time.
