My first ER visit was for drinking a bottle of something used to make glass grapes like these: [link]
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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.
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.
§ 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.
§ ita § - Dec 09, 2010 6:37:26 pm PST #10088 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
86% of people are sick and wrong. Just wrong.
I've only been to urgent care once, I think. Just recently. A couple months ago, when an IV infiltrated and the swelling just wouldn't go down. It was...mildly urgent.
P.M. Marc - Dec 09, 2010 6:41:45 pm PST #10089 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
No marzipan. I like the idea of marzipan, but not the reality of it.
Noted in the log. Your loaf shall have none. Oh. What does the Peev say of this? Do I need to do a half-and-half?
Strix - Dec 09, 2010 6:50:53 pm PST #10090 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I like both hazelnuts and chocolate, but I do not like Nutella.
OTOH, I can eat my weight in those Ferrer Rocher hazelnut truffleball thingies.
I've been to the ER once for myself, when I was a kid and broke both my arms. At once. Other than that, just on support trips, once for a friend who got bit by a dog, and a student who dislocated the HELL out of his knee in the parking lot. Stepped wrong, getting into his car; one of the grossest real-life things I've ever seen. Poor guy.