Embarrassing injuries that require a trip to ER

[Shagley]

Have you ever had an embarrassing injury that required a trip to the ER? Last month I had to go to the ER with a cat scratch to my eyeball. It was on the 3rd of July and I was laying in bed. My cat was sitting next to my head and someone outside set off a firecracker. My cat got startled and tried to jump across me, but she didn't allow enough clearance, so her back paw went straight into my eye and scratched my eyeball. My eye ended up being ok, I had a scratched retina and I had to use an antibiotic gel in my eye for the next week to make sure I didn't get an infection.

So, what embarrassing injury have you had to explain to the doctors in the ER?

 

[sunshine1178]

Have you ever had an embarrassing injury that required a trip to the ER? Last month I had to go to the ER with a cat scratch to my eyeball. It was on the 3rd of July and I was laying in bed. My cat was sitting next to my head and someone outside set off a firecracker. My cat got startled and tried to jump across me, but she didn't allow enough clearance, so her back paw went straight into my eye and scratched my eyeball. My eye ended up being ok, I had a scratched retina and I had to use an antibiotic gel in my eye for the next week to make sure I didn't get an infection.

So, what embarrassing injury have you had to explain to the doctors in the ER?

My 2 year old son superglued his eye shut.

My vet had to get stitches after a mare kicked him while he was sewing her girlie parts shut. He said people kept coming in and making him repeat that story.

 

[anorviel]

Well, it should have been the ER, but I waited a day and ended up in a lot more pain at Urgent Care.

I was cutting an avocado after a particularly heated telephone call with a loved one. As I was opening up the avocado, I was telling my husband about the conversation. I was really worked up and stuck the knife (quite aggressively) into the pit of the avocado. You know where this is going, right? The knife went through the pit and into the palm of my hand. So stupid.

I ended up having to have the wound re-opened and thoroughly cleaned, got a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and four stitches.

Idiot move.

Ann

 

[ilovepcot]

Former ER nurse here. I can't even hint at the "embarrassing" things I saw and heard. Love to, but soooo not family friendly.

 

[dakcp2001]

Nurse here, so I know the er staff which made it more embarrassing. Had to get stitches after a freak accident with a cat food can. Very deep cut! Love the pop top ones now!

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Well, it should have been the ER, but I waited a day and ended up in a lot more pain at Urgent Care.

I was cutting an avocado after a particularly heated telephone call with a loved one. As I was opening up the avocado, I was telling my husband about the conversation. I was really worked up and stuck the knife (quite aggressively) into the pit of the avocado. You know where this is going, right? The knife went through the pit and into the palm of my hand. So stupid.

I ended up having to have the wound re-opened and thoroughly cleaned, got a tetanus shot, antibiotics, and four stitches.

Idiot move.

Ann

I did this too, but I did go to the ER. I felt like such an idiot.

 

[indygirl99]

I've done the cat scratch to the eye, probably 4 or 5 times.

I am also pretty clumsy in the kitchen with knives.

The kids have put rocks or beans up their noses or ears.

One of the girls got the toothbrush stuck in the back of her throat on her tonsil.

 

[Shagley]

Former ER nurse here. I can't even hint at the "embarrassing" things I saw and heard. Love to, but soooo not family friendly.

I bet you did see some REALLY embarrassing stuff! I doubt those type of stories will be shared on this thread

 

[ironpig70]

Been to the ER numerous times nothing to embarassing

 

[Shagley]

I've done the cat scratch to the eye, probably 4 or 5 times.

Apparently cat scratches to the eye aren't as unusual as I thought they were. I thought I just had a particularly clumsy cat

 

[cobright]

I cut the top of my hand to the bone and decided I could suture it up myself.

Dressing my wound and putting in stitches is not new to me but doing it one handed made it take way longer than it should have.

Then my wife gets home and I stand up to show her my progress, faint, and hit my head on the toilet hard enough to need stitches.

The ER wanted to know which ER we had been to first, assuming we walked out half way through the stitches to my hand.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I was speed cleaning one night and managed to splash toilet bowl cleaner in my eye. I was brushing the toilet and a drop of water flew up and landed right in my eye. I called poison control who told me to stand with my eye open facing the shower head for at least 15 minutes. It still burned after that so they sent me to the ER. DH was out somewhere, so I had to call my parents. My mom sat with my boys (one was only a few weeks old) and my dad drove me. I had to get my eye washed with a huge plastic lens and a bag of saline. There was a small corneal abrasion so I ended up with eye drops for a week. It was kind of embarrassing, but it could have been worse!

 

[ilovepcot]

I bet you did see some REALLY embarrassing stuff! I doubt those type of stories will be shared on this thread

You made me start thinking back and there are a few "odd" things I can share: A woman brought her toddler into the ER and he was so bundled up we couldn't tell what she was holding at first. The child had been treated at home for a really bad sore throat and congestion using home remedies. The mom had placed sardines in oil on the child's throat and wrapped heavily in cheesecloth, followed by an old shredded up bed sheet. It had been wrapped for days, and when we began to unwrap his throat the smell nearly gagged the entire ER. Her "home remedy" had failed and the child was running a high fever and really ill.

Another time, a man dragged his friend up the front steps and pounded on the front door of the hospital as though the world was coming to an end. Didn't go round to the ER...was too far for them as they were walking. This was another case where the person's throat was wrapped in a bed sheet. Seems this particular person was "minding his own business" and for no reason at all (right!) his wife slit his throat with a large knife. This was a mess to behold when we unwrapped the throat. Good times!!!!

 

[iheartdisney]

I sent my mom to the ER once. When I was a teenager she was telling me to go do something, and went to give me a playful kick in the rear but i had moved by the time her foot made contact, and she kicked my hip instead. We both heard the crack when she broke her big toe.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

most of my doozies I fix myself! I think the only funny er story I have is when I had to go in cause my eye was swollen shut. So they diagnose me with pinkeye. I figure I picked it up at work.... the next night the cat sneezed in my face, and I came to relize quicky that the cat is a carrier! Next trip to the er (the antibotic cream gave me a rash around my eye) was real fun when I told them the cat gave me pink eye (and ive had it 24 times since)

 

[wdwmom0f3]

Not an injury, but still embarrassing. I was a brand new mommy at the time. My newborn had her shots that day and the doctor told me to watch for a fever or other signs of a reaction. Later that afternoon she felt very warm to me so I took her tempature. It said she was running a fever of 104 or more so I freaked out and called the dr. They told me what to do too get it down but when I retook it, her temp was just as high!! So I rushed her to the ER.

I came running in with her in her infant seat and I'm pretty sure I remember screaming for someone to help me. anyway, they took her right back and checked her but she didn't have a fever. They asked me if I remember shaking the thermometer down and of course being 23 and a brand new mom, I had no clue about that!! I was so embarrassed! What's worse is they wouldn't let me leave until she was fully checked by the doctor so I spent a couple of hours in the ER for nothing!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I cannot help but think of this...

 

[SLP958]

My uncle had a ER visit for a horse bite. He was bending over working on a fence in his pasture and one of his normally very gentle horses bit his rear end.

It was fairly serious. He was out of work for 6 weeks and almost needed surgery.

 

[disykat]

Not the ER and not my eye, but a cat story. When I was in 4th grade I was holding the cat when she tried to make a run for it as we entered the vet's office. I was pretty scratched up. Much to my dismay, my mom and the vet made me strip down and have him treat my scratches.

To make it worse, my siblings were outside playing with all the neighborhood kids when we came home. It didn't take them long to deduce that I had been treated by a veterinarian with what surely had to be medicine meant for dogs, cats, or horses! It took me a long time to live that one down.

I was pretty peeved that no one cared that I was a hero that saved our cat from certain doom on a busy road.

 

[nighttowll]

Not the ER, but the Dr. Cut my finger open, wait for it .... On a tape measure! Bled for over 8 hours. It actually tore the end of my finger off, we had to just kind of stick it back on. I mean who gets maimed by a tape measure? The best part is it happened at work and fell under workers comp. Our Safety Supervisor was out on vacation at the time, and thought we were playing a prank on her. She hung up twice on us before we were able to convince her I really was over here bleeding out from a quarter inch tape measure cut. Ended up having to super glue my finger back together twice. Thought I was going to have to get stitches; it just wouldn't stop gushing blood. I still hear jokes about this every time a tape measure is brought out.