posting from the emergency room

[bill440rt]

Glad to hear you are doing OK. Take care of yourself.

This happened to me this past year. Excruciating chest pains, thought I was dying, ended up in the emergency room. All kinds of tests, EKG, etc, found nothing. Went to a gastroenterologist (spelling?). Stuck a camera tube down my throat. All systems & organs clear. Just6T9 nailed it, basically just bad gas pains. Can't eat as much hot wings as I used to now. 

So... where's the pics of the nurses? 

[mauve66]

i don' think there were any nurses........................

[Chryco Psycho]

The canadiun system is awesome , they treat you on the basis of who is most serious , I waited 7 hours in emergency , I was so sick but just a cold I had been living with for over 3 months so hit the bottom of the list .
My mom needed an MRI having a pinched psyatic nerve [sp] it took 18 hrs the first day , 16 hrs the sencond & 12 hrs the 3rd day before she was seen . I also waited 11 months to see a specialist about my knee for 2 mins !

[Drache]

For the doubters out there  

My view when in the E.R.


My wrist band


My arm (which has a nasty bruise this morning)

[skip68]

Did you eat something bad?   

[bill440rt]

That nurse needs a serious pedicure! 

(Just some get well humor!) GET WELL!! 

[Chryco Psycho]

BTW I hope you are OK Kyle 

[mauve66]

i didn't doubt the hospital stay, just the quality of the scenery................

[Drache]

Ok I figured I'd type out the whole story because it's almost funny.

So at 11pm I experienced the most terrible pain I've ever felt and it was dead center of my chest. It hit me so hard I couldn't get out of the chair I sat down in. A coworker called the camp paramedics who responded in record time. They tried giving me oxygen because I couldn't help but breath fast and shallow due to the pain. He then gae me 160mg of technically Asparin. He decided it was time to get me out and into the ambulance. A guy on each arm led me down the stairs and I collapsed onto the guney and was into the ambulance immediately.

So they race up to the helipad and hear that the helicopter that normally takes 15 minutes is going to take 45 minutes AT LEAST. The medic was pissed. Seems some dumbarse in some far off city decided there needed to be two medics on the chopper before it could take off. Meanwhile Bruce (my medic) stated that was unneeded. So since the town we were near was small, it was going to take 30 minutes for the town medics to get to the airport. The medic was demanding the chopper take off and the town medics just meet us when we land. Nope the dumbarse says that cant happen.

So we are in the back of the ambulance and I'm still in pain so the medic cranks on the laughing gas (I'm serious) and gets me to suck on that then proceeds to start telling me jokes! Then some good looking girl from the camp offers to give me a foot massage while I was lying in the ambulance! I politely declined simply because I didn't want the poor girl rubbing my sweaty feet. So then the air conditioning in the ambulance BREAKS DOWN and now the ambulance is heating up!

So finally after AN HOUR the chopper lands and out steps a single town medic. Seems the other town medic has an inner ear condition and can't fly! Anyways the town medic is a REAL cutey! She climbs into the ambulance and starts fliring with me right away! She even metioned it was her birthday to which I apologized and she told me not to worry since she got a free chopper flight for her birthday! Meanwhile I accidentally grabbed her ass and when I apologized for that she told me not to worry cause it's her birthday!

So they pull me out of ambulance and it's bright blue sky and the sun is blinding me so the town medic put her sunglasses on me! She tells me her name is Serena and so Bruce, Serena, and I take off in the helicopter. 15 minutes later we land at the town airport and loaded into another ambulance (this one had working A/C) and taken to the town hospital where Bruce starts mentioning that the hospital looks like something out of the 70's! Thanks Bruce....

So They drop me off in the ER and I'm left alone. In comes one cute nurse though and starts flirting with me while hooking up an EKG. Then comes in another cute nurse who also starts flirting with me and starts taking blood. I'm giving two shots of some pain medication and a spray of nitroglycerin under the tongue. Then they take off my shirt and start wonding if they should take off my pants for my chest xray. So after they leave in comes an old nurse to take me to my xray then back to my room afterwards.

So I'm told the doctor won't be in before 5pm because it's not an emergency. So finally the doc arrives, spends three minutes telling me nothing is wrong, then leaves. So I have to get all the tests done a second time for comparison and that can only be done 6 hours after the first set. Finally got those tests done and I'm released.

[b5blue]

Boy the things you'll do just to meet cute chicks! 

[A383Wing]

still waiting for pics of said cute nurses

Bryan

[440]

Maybe he was under medication and thought the male nurses were cute, but doesn't want to admit his error ?

[Tilar]

I had something similar happen to me probably 20 years ago, and when they were doing the tests they could even tell me everytime I had a twinge... Turned out my chest pains, as my doctor put it were basically a pulled muscle in my heart from a few days before.

[BigBlackDodge]

Glad your apparently OK.  BUT, "been waiting for the doctor for three hours" is scary.  If this is what your socialized medical system is like, I guess we can expect the same soon.....

Expect? We have it now. I took my father (68 years old at the time) to the ER and spent 10 hours there. He wasn't having chest pains but he was having severe back pains to the point he was crying. This was 5 years ago...




BBD

[twodko]

Please clarify that you were not sucking on the medic while he was telling you jokes and the girl was jerking your toes. Kyle that doesn't sound good. 

[mauve66]

i agree with 440, i think the gas and altitude was cause him to hallucinate............................

[Bobs69]

Glad your apparently OK.  BUT, "been waiting for the doctor for three hours" is scary.  If this is what your socialized medical system is like, I guess we can expect the same soon.....

Expect? We have it now. I took my father (68 years old at the time) to the ER and spent 10 hours there. He wasn't having chest pains but he was having severe back pains to the point he was crying. This was 5 years ago...




BBD

Are you Americans trying to say that you don't have long waits in the emergency rooms?

[Steve P.]

I can tell you from my own experiences that YES, we wait plenty long in our EMERGENCY ROOMS... At a few Tampa hospitals we have what is called FAST TRACK.. I have been in there many times with my back. I would hate to see what NORMAL or SLOW track are like...

One time there I could not stand or sit. I needed to lay down and pleaded with the triage people. They were going to kick me out of the hospital. My wife called the doctor. (He knew we were coming and was at the hospital). He came to the Emergency area screaming at people as he was getting closer to me. Demanded the woman got me a bed right then.. Incredibly, she was back with a rolling bed about 30 seconds later.. 40 minutes later I was in emergency surgery.

That same doctor quit his practice and went back to school. Harvard Law. He now leads a panel of doctors that are fighting the BS that we know as MEDICAL INSURANCE.

It is a very long story and if you want to hear it you will need to bring a few cases of beer, but I have in black and white from this doctor, all of my reports. In one of them he describes medical insurance companies as "THE ARCHES OF EVIL".

[Drache]

Once again the ONLY reason the doctor was not called immediately was because I did not have the symptoms of anything life threatening. Now that isnt saying that he wasnt a dumbass for saying nothing is wrong with me. Thus why Im headed home on a flight in 3 hours to get rechecked by my local doctor!

[Budnicks]

Ok I figured I'd type out the whole story because it's almost funny.

So at 11pm I experienced the most terrible pain I've ever felt and it was dead center of my chest. It hit me so hard I couldn't get out of the chair I sat down in. A coworker called the camp paramedics who responded in record time. They tried giving me oxygen because I couldn't help but breath fast and shallow due to the pain. He then gae me 160mg of technically Asparin. He decided it was time to get me out and into the ambulance. A guy on each arm led me down the stairs and I collapsed onto the guney and was into the ambulance immediately.

So they race up to the helipad and hear that the helicopter that normally takes 15 minutes is going to take 45 minutes AT LEAST. The medic was pissed. Seems some dumbarse in some far off city decided there needed to be two medics on the chopper before it could take off. Meanwhile Bruce (my medic) stated that was unneeded. So since the town we were near was small, it was going to take 30 minutes for the town medics to get to the airport. The medic was demanding the chopper take off and the town medics just meet us when we land. Nope the dumbarse says that cant happen.

So we are in the back of the ambulance and I'm still in pain so the medic cranks on the laughing gas (I'm serious) and gets me to suck on that then proceeds to start telling me jokes! Then some good looking girl from the camp offers to give me a foot massage while I was lying in the ambulance! I politely declined simply because I didn't want the poor girl rubbing my sweaty feet. So then the air conditioning in the ambulance BREAKS DOWN and now the ambulance is heating up!

So finally after AN HOUR the chopper lands and out steps a single town medic. Seems the other town medic has an inner ear condition and can't fly! Anyways the town medic is a REAL cutey! She climbs into the ambulance and starts fliring with me right away! She even metioned it was her birthday to which I apologized and she told me not to worry since she got a free chopper flight for her birthday! Meanwhile I accidentally grabbed her ass and when I apologized for that she told me not to worry cause it's her birthday!

So they pull me out of ambulance and it's bright blue sky and the sun is blinding me so the town medic put her sunglasses on me! She tells me her name is Serena and so Bruce, Serena, and I take off in the helicopter. 15 minutes later we land at the town airport and loaded into another ambulance (this one had working A/C) and taken to the town hospital where Bruce starts mentioning that the hospital looks like something out of the 70's! Thanks Bruce....

So They drop me off in the ER and I'm left alone. In comes one cute nurse though and starts flirting with me while hooking up an EKG. Then comes in another cute nurse who also starts flirting with me and starts taking blood. I'm giving two shots of some pain medication and a spray of nitroglycerin under the tongue. Then they take off my shirt and start wonding if they should take off my pants for my chest xray. So after they leave in comes an old nurse to take me to my xray then back to my room afterwards.

So I'm told the doctor won't be in before 5pm because it's not an emergency. So finally the doc arrives, spends three minutes telling me nothing is wrong, then leaves. So I have to get all the tests done a second time for comparison and that can only be done 6 hours after the first set. Finally got those tests done and I'm released.

What an ordeal, good to hear your OK, after all that... good luck & get well soon, so you can get back to WORK...LOL....

[crankypat]

   no we LIVE IN AMERICA.

[crankypat]

  :shruggy:PICS      PICS [ chuck gas]

[Drache]

sorry no pictures of the nurses

[c00nhunterjoe]

sorry no pictures of the nurses

Its ok, I know its hard to take pictures and grab their asses at the same time. 

[nvrbdn]

good to here your ok.