ER Visits

[maillotpois]

1. Tried to make a thumb and cheese sandwich in law school.

2. Broke a vase and got a very deep laceration.

3. Last month a week after being released from hospital for the pulmonary emboli, I had severe chest pain - worse than anything - and went to ER to be safe. CT scan (#2 for the week!) showed nothing different, So it was pleurisy that stayed with me for about 2 - 3 more days. Boy that was so painful!!

[SheFly]

Also a few too many to count, but a couple I thought you would enjoy.

In 6th grade, was riding my 3-speed (think metallic blue with fancy banana seat) home from my friends house, wearing flip flops. Foot came off pedal and into spoke - cut the bottom of my foot off. Let me tell you how painful it was getting the road grit out of that wound! Lesson learned - NEVER ride bike in flip flops!

About 5 years ago, went to the DR due to severe abdominal pain. He sent me to ER to have an ultrasound. Drove myself there and waited around. ER doc finally came in, did an exam and declared they were taking out my appendix! Frantic call to DH to come to hospital. By then, the on-duty OB GYN came through and they did an ultrasound to discover that I had an ovarian cyst. Ended up having to spend the night in the hospital, but at least I still have my appendix.

Three years ago DH and I were building an addition on our vacation home. We had put in the ridge pole for the cathedral ceiling, and were starting on the roof rafters. Think 6"x8"x10' from 14'up. DH on ladder against ridge pole, and me handing rafters up to him. As he shifted, one of the rafters fell, hitting me directly in the forehead. No hospital in town, so went to the clinic. It's amazing how quickly you are treated when you have a gaping head wound! Doc took a look and decided to STAPLE my head. First came a LOT of novacaine. One staple, two staples, three staples - Oops! What do you mean, "Oops"? Apparently the third staple didn't go in quite right. They spent the next 1/2 hour trying to get it to come back out. By that point the novacaine had worn off, so when the next staple went in, I felt it! I told them to just keep going at that point, so I felt the remaining 7 (of 9) staples going into my head. Looked like Frankenstein after that one, and wore a hard hat on the job thereafter!

No bike related visits as yet (touching wood!).

SheFly

[HillSlugger]

Numerous times as a child: I was always seeming to get fingers caught in doors.

Graduate school: cut open my hand on a broken pipette (2 stiches). should have also gone when I sliced open my finger with a razor blade

Three years ago: fell while ice skating (in July!) and hit my head (21 stitches)