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Emergency rooms suck!!! I don't care about some loser who cut his finger off, by something stupid he did anyway! I need to be seen right away for my fever!
wow, what about that? a doc in a box...
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Yeah, they say "stat" in hospitals, although often it just means "the doctor wants this done now because he's going golfing in twenty minutes". Anyway I'm very acquainted with our local urgent care because I'm quite accident prone. I don't know why -- I'm always careful! Or at least, I'm always thinking that I should be careful ...
I love our urgent care center, but it's only open during regular doctors office hours. What's the point?
Anywho, I'm sorry MMP was feeling poorly and I'm glad to hear he scored some good drugs. I was a little relieved to find you hadn't actually done any hootenanny damage.
Holy moly! I think you guys set a new record for health care. impressive!
If you still lived in Elk Grove, you could have gone to the RiteAid on EB Blvd. They have an urgent care center right in the drug store.
If you are not bleeding then the ER will keep you in the waiting room until you are. The ONLY time you should go to an ER is in an ambulance (you go the front of the list when you come riding in with sirens blaring). But even at the doc in the box that has to be a record. Congratulations!
Right around 1 year ago i had a 8' aluminum tube fall on my head while i was at work, and ordinarily it wouldn't have been a big deal except a flat welded edge caught the top of my head sending me straight to the floor. I was bleeding like a stuck pig.. and our ERT member sucked. He rifled through his bright red bag looking for a set of gloves while i rinsed my own damn head.
I was driven to the ER by my color blind supervisor... ordinarilly this wouldn't have been a big deal either, except that he stopped at a flashing yellow light. We waited there for approximately 30 seconds or so before i inquisitively asked if he was the one who was struck on the head.
ANYWAYS... long story short, we arrived at the ER where they placed me into a wheel chair, even though i walked in on my own. I was holding a towel against my lasceration while they escorted me to the front of the line.
In front of a man who had a 9 inch nail jutting through his forearm.
The man was obviously in excrutiating pain, so I asked the nurse why he wasn't going in first...
"head injuries take precidence over all other ailments... even major burns, breaks, and cuts"
so if you're bleeding from your head or just have a large goose egg... expect to sneak to the front of the class Charlie, you've won the golden ticket!
Sorry MMP had a hurty hooter. But you found the Atlantis of hurty hooternannys!
It's almost like Disney on Christmas day; no lines, crazy mirrors all to yourself, and souvenir pill formed candies!
Nice find!
I love that, in addition to your iPod and Wired magazine, you brought a camera, so you could get a shot of the empty waiting room -- so important to the gist of your story! A true blogger!
JD at I Do Things
Why, thank you for the shout out! My books will be for sale on Etsy sometime soon, I hope, otherwise I may have to move to a larger house.
Not being from your neck of the woods, I am not certain what a hooternanny is but whatever it is, I hope it's better.
It've only gone to the emerg a few times in my life ... either for myself or taking someone. It's amazing how it can be hit & miss in the same town. One day it's empty ... the next it seems everyone's had a weird mishap, lol.
yikes, I think my comment disappeared. Not a big deal I don't think I said anything earth shattering! lol
Doncha just love those lil "minor emergency rooms" God Bless em!
I have to admit I clicked on your blog because of the name, I thought it was hilarious-glad I did
Girl, you should have asked me. We've spent mucho time in urgent care waiting rooms. Not long waits, just lotsa times. Thank goodness for the urgent care. ERs are nasty places.
I love those places (o.k. that sounded weird) but unfortunately HBL is on the hospital board so I'm forced to go sit amongst the illegals and wait my turn for fear we'll be seen frequenting the competition. I hope your hootenanny is better. Did MMP kiss it for ya? 
Ha. ha. you guys lucked out. When I went in I had a kid with a cut on his eye and we waited with a kid who had swallowed a quarter, a doubled-over teenage girl, and a kid with an arm broke so bad it looked like a piece of taffy. It was an interesting day.
Many years ago during the cleanup after Hurricane Fran hit my hometown I managed to cut myself a few stitches worth while hacking at some fallen trees at my parents' house. My way-too-easily freaked out maternal unit pulled me to the ER by my ear where I was assigned to the "Fast Track Unit". Fast my hind leg! That's just what they tell you so you won't complain about being shuffled off in a corner for the next 6 hours. Anyway, while I was waiting for my seamstress to show up I overheard the staff discussing the case in the next bed over. And they used three words I thought I'd never hear used together in this order: "superficial chainsaw injury". Folks, I've worked with chainsaws and if they injure you there's nothing
"superficial" about it! Even if it's not running that chain can screw your whole day up. Anyway, sounds like this guy's day got pretty screwed up. I got my 7 stitches and went lived to hack another day.
Three words: "superficial chainsaw injury". Yep. I heard them spoken -- in that order -- in the ER at the local hospital during the cleanup form Hurricane Fran in 1996. They weren't talking about me thank goodness.
I was there for a superficial machete injury.
It's a subtle difference, but an important one I think.
Three words: "superficial chainsaw injury". Yep. I heard them spoken -- in that order -- in the ER at the local hospital during the cleanup form Hurricane Fran in 1996. They weren't talking about me thank goodness.
I was there for a superficial machete injury.
It's a subtle difference, but an important one I think.
WTF? Haloscan needs a doc in the box. And quick! It swallowed my initial comment whole, and must've choked on it. Then apparently I gave it a Heimlich with a shorter version and it puked up not only the original, but a duplicate of the Heimlich!
Have I created Comment if Ipecac?
I wish I had some of those right now...my head = allergy city. I don't know why all the sudden, but yep.
nice.
That is freakin amazing,
i tend to stitch my own gunshot wounds because i dont want to wait at the hospital.. sheesh
LOL. I work in a hospital. They do, in fact, say STAT. I love Urgent Care for the same reason, but it makes me feel like I'm in the twilight zone (I guess because they are almost always empty?).
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Good post.see ya
Those clinics sound like a great idea. Fortunately, our area is so small that the emergency room usually isn't too packed (even then it's usually sick kids and our injuries tend to be of the "don't pull it out or you'll gush" variety...so we get a doc pretty quick).
Those clinics sound like a great idea. Fortunately, our area is so small that the emergency room usually isn't too packed (even then it's usually sick kids and our injuries tend to be of the "don't pull it out or you'll gush" variety...so we get a doc pretty quick).
haha as i started to read i was thinking... why not just go to an urgent care. Between the three of us girls, urgent care was our second home growing up lol
Ugh. I know. I hate sinus infections. Next time, give him a heavy dose of ibuprofen to stave of the inflammation, headache, and fever.
We have the little urgent care clinics here too. They're really nice, and they're run by the main hospital in town, so if they decide that you need more urgent care they will ride you over and get you a fast ticket into the big hospital. Very convenient.
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