ER Visits

[Kalidurga]

Bike related: none yet.

Same here. I've been twice in the last five years, though:

- Severe asthma attack at 3:00 am when I was coming down with bronchitis. The nebulizer treatment they gave me lowered my blood pressure to the point that I was so faint I couldn't walk, so I had plenty of time lying there watching the ER goings-on in the middle of the night. Interesting, but weird.

- Went out for an evening walk after work. Coming home through the grounds of the local elementary school around dusk, I felt so good that I stopped to play at the deserted playground. After climbing on the jungle gym for a while, I got on one of those parallel bar thingies that you "walk" across on your hands. Halfway across, I slipped and did a faceplant in the wood chips. Got up with a sore face and wrist. Walked the rest of the way home thinking that I had a concussion and a sprained wrist. Once I got in the house, all I wanted to do was close my eyes and sleep. Instead I got out a couple of bags of frozen veggies, one for my wrist and one for my head, and sat down at the computer to one-handedly look up the symptoms of a concussion (which described exactly what I was feeling). Ended up laying down on the couch with my frozen veggies and falling asleep for two hours, (which you're not supposed to do when concussed). Woke up at midnight, realized I was in bad shape, called the ER. They told me to come drive on over. I said "I have only one hand, I can't drive". They sent an ambulance. I asked the EMS if they had ever had to transport anyone for anything as silly as a hurt wrist. Loooong story short, I had fractured my wrist and the doctor swore I couldn't have a concussion because I was too coherent. Ended up in a cast from my fingers to my elbow from the end of July to the end of September. So much for that cycling season... And the folks at work still won't let me live down calling in sick because I fell down at the playground.