My first visit to the ER was either the first split open chin or the newspaper eating thing. Either way, 4 or younger. Or maybe the stitches on my knee. I totally don't remember those.
Jayne: That's a good idea. Good idea. Tell us where the stuff's at so I can shoot you. Mal: Point of interest? Offering to shoot us might not work so well as an incentive as you might imagine.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2010 5:37:39 pm PST #10078 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Dec 09, 2010 5:40:59 pm PST #10079 of 30001
Because books.
Ben was our ER kid. Swallowed a penny which got lodged at under three, cut his head wide open the next year. The stitches that required made my usually sunny, completely agreeable kid a screaming, hysterical wreck when it came to haircuts for a while. That was an interesting year for him, in hair.
My brother was an ER kid, too. Falls, concussions, broken bones. I came home twice from playing at a friend's house to find a neighbor waiting to tell me my parents had taken him to the ER.
DavidS - Dec 09, 2010 5:48:29 pm PST #10080 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
He smashed his thumb in the hinge of the bathroom door
Yikes! I know of two different kids who suffered traumatic amputation of a digit in this manner.
(Both had their fingers sewn back on.)
Spidra Webster - Dec 09, 2010 5:51:16 pm PST #10081 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
My first ER visit was for drinking a bottle of something used to make glass grapes like these: [link]
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2010 5:52:39 pm PST #10082 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In my memory, no one else in my immediate family has been to the ER. For themselves. I, apart from the pain management stuff, have been repeatedly. And then some more. I have flair.
Amy - Dec 09, 2010 5:54:43 pm PST #10083 of 30001
Because books.
My ER trips were all as an adult, a couple times for asthma, once for falling down a flight of tiled stairs, and once for a tooth infection gone horribly wrong. I hate the ER, although I guess I should be grateful for adrenaline shots and morphine.
Spidra Webster - Dec 09, 2010 6:04:27 pm PST #10084 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
We had enough kids and enough roughhousing that the Huntington Memorial Hospital ER staff knew my family by name at one point.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2010 6:04:36 pm PST #10085 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I find it retroactively charming that I felt I had "my" ER in London. Oh, like I knew what it was to have an ER.
I've had the same nurse three weeks in a row, and he's threatening to change his shift to avoid me. But he's sweet (if nosy), and never stops until he gets the line in and he doesn't give me a bolus, so I'm really glad of it.
This hospital is my hospital in so many ways, it's not even funny.
Liese S. - Dec 09, 2010 6:05:06 pm PST #10086 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I`ve never been to the ER. Oh, no wait, I went for my mouse bite. Yeah, that`s on the other end from ita. I think I win for most inconsequential injury.
Ginger - Dec 09, 2010 6:19:09 pm PST #10087 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Surprisingly enough, I've only ended up in the emergency room three times: when I fell on the ice when I was 8, for an ovarian cyst, and when I cut off the end of my finger. My other self-mutilations were handled by urgent care and doctors' offices. My sister had many visits for seizures.