There are so many ways one can end up in the hospital. Especially in the summer now that we're swimming, biking, and are just much more active.
There are so many ways one can end up in the hospital. Especially in the summer now that we're swimming, biking, and are just much more active.user asked everyone on the platform"What's the most ridiculous thing you've ever witnessed in the waiting area at the ER?", many people had a story to share.
Being the only hospital within at least fifty miles of anything, they were predictably busy on a Saturday afternoon. We were there for hours and bored out of our minds. We’re all gifted with warped Monty Python humor, and so we started riffing on it. I started talking about how “our husband” was doing, and that I hoped he would be alright, because I wasn’t prepared to jump on his funeral pyre. The other people in the waiting room were gawking at us like we’d all grown third eyes and horns.
I asked who he's with or what he's waiting on, and he replied “I'm waiting for this to be removed.” He said pointing to the prop sitting on top of his head. Some of my associates giggle. And I smile. “Yeah we will get that removed.” I say as I check his skull. I noticed that his costume does seem better dressed, he even applied fake blood to where the butchers knife curves along his skull so it sat on his head.
In purely the ER waiting room area, the area where triage and pre-admittance is done but after admission/reception area. When I broke my arm, I was on my own, and called a friend, who is great in a crisis, but otherwise, shall we say eccentric. She turned up in the E.R. dressed like Morticia Adams. People noticed.Before smoking was stopped inside hospitals I saw three women smoking while leaning against a trolley of oxygen cylinders until security saw them and made them extinguish the cigarettes and they could not see what the problem was.
Then the REAL injury came in. This was a boy, about 10 years old. He had scrapes on his arms and legs, had obviously broken an arm, and looked as if his ribs were likely broken as well. The front wheel had come off his bicycle as he was coasting down a steep hill in his neighborhood…the town was in the foothills of a mountain chain. Not naming it deliberately, btw. The boy’s mother got a wheel chair from the ER to bring him in, since he could barely stand.
That had to be me. I was suddenly panting and so out breath while going up the stairs. I became increasingly weak, and my heart was rapidly pounding. We took my oxygen level with an oximeter. 83%. So my husband hooked me up to his oxygen tank, and my oxygen levels went up to 91%. I rested. He called his doctor-son to describe my symptoms. “It’s a pulmomary embolism!! ER NOW!!”
Half an hour went by, and I’m slumping over in the chair, literally turning blue. When it became my “turn” to be taken back for examination, the whole ER team back there exploded with action, consternation and incredulity. They couldn’t believe I was left to sit out there without even being given oxygen. They also couldn’t believe I was still alive, as Xrays and scan showed I had thrown multiple PEs.
He told me on the contrary, smoking is beneficial for your health. Then he explained his theory about how cigarettes help purify the air. You see, when you light a cigarette and inhale through it, all the impurities in the air are instantly incinerated on point of contact with the flame.Sure enough, the used filter was this gross brown color with tiny little particles in it.
i took my husband to the ER about 7 weeks ago in the midst of a stroke. It was his second stroke, I knew what it was and that time was critical. An ambulance would have cost us time we didn’t have. While I was driving, I called the hospital ER and told them we were less than 10 minutes away, he was having a stroke and I would need help getting him into the hospital. They said to pull up and let them know they would take him. I pulled up, put the car in park and ran into the ER waiting room.
I sat there concerned, as he had been triaged but he was waiting for a bed to open up and admittedly, for someone having a heart attack, time is of the essence. We happened to be right across the Isolation aka contageous room. For 2 hours I listened behind our curtain of baby after baby crying and coughing with Whooping Cough. I lost count at 20. I found out later, our city had an epidemic of cases. It was by far the most devastating sound one can ever hear. Vacinate your babies.
I’m sorry to say that once while applying for a Physicians Assistant at very Good and hard program to get in too! I witnessed patient care at its most EVIL & lowest spot on Earth! I have no idea how a person in that condition was up and about, but the poor guy was elderly and may have wandered out of bed.
Some guy, high on dr*gs, began by pi*sing on the furniture. Then, he went outside, took off his clothes, s**t, and rubbed the s**t all over himself. True story. I didn't see it, but was called to help deal with the situation. Oh, I was a hospital employee at the time. Not in the waiting room but while I was getting checked out this chick beside me had a pizza delivered due to her blood sugar being low.
My wife had cancer that had spread through her body. We had found out it had spread to her eye. A couple or 3 days later my wife started getting a migraine that started behind the eye that the eye doctor said the cancer had spread to.On the way to the hospital was the building my daughter had her guitar lessons at and she was due to go when my wife finally admitted she couldn’t stand the pain anymore and wanted to go to the hospital.
While I was there trying to stay calm, a pregnant woman and a man came in. She kept saying “it’s too soon” and he just kept quietly crying. They stood there for about 30 minutes even after telling the front desk and the triage nurse what was happening, and unsuccessfully trying to flag other staff down.
The Security staff finally told her she had to leave. She responded with how they were legally required to treat her. I stepped in and advised her that was only true as long as she did not pose a threat to the staff or other patients, and that as of that moment, she was legally trespassing, as she had been asked to leave. The security staff physically pushed her out the door. I stepped out with them, and told her if she came back onto hospital grounds, she’d go straight to jail. It was no bluff.
The second was a woman we hated to see coming; we referred to her as “Skittles lady”. She was a frequent flyer, usually there for trivial reasons, and had a chain of very small children in tow. After we are called back and are leaving the hospital, we have to pass by the waiting room again. And the trash is still everywhere, the young couple gone.
I was leaving the ER to go home, after visiting a colleague so we could discuss some patients. I saw a man come into the ER waiting area. I've seen on several occasions patients scream at the triage nurse that they are going to sue them for making them wait. That's not to bad compared to when I was at an appointment to see my doctor and a fight between two females broke out and the head doctor came out as it was being broken up and made each of them agree to stay apart.
Here I was minding my own business keeping pressure on my hand, as I just got my finger stuck in an immersion blender , blood running down my arm, waiting my turn. A rather snooty proper woman sitting nearby approaches me and says “Do you mind - you are getting blood everywhere?”. OK so if I can not bleed in an emergency room, where am I allowed to bleed?
The entire waiting room could hear him. His face was red with rage as he loudly complained to whoever was on the other end of the phone that staff were making him wait while he was clearly having a heart attack. Whenever he paused for breath he'd take a deep gulp from a 1L Mountain Dew. When I left he was still sitting there, still complaining, still very much alive.
My lovely ex-husband had an especially bad hangover one day and decided he was dying, so made me take him to the ER. But he was “too good” for the closest hospital to our house, so we had to go to Cedars-Sinai near Hollywood. Once we sat down, ex noticed the guy in the chairs across from us had been in a movie we watched the previous night! 15+ minutes of ex insisting he go ask for an autograph, me saying to leave the guy alone as he obviously didn’t feel well if he was in the ER.
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