Embarrassing injuries that require a trip to ER

[LilyWDW]

In high school gym. It was raining so we were practicing our tennis swings in the gym against the wall. I was wearing basketball shoes which are made to grip the gym floor really well. Went to swing... and twisted both my knee and my ankle. Had to be wheeled out on an office chair because I couldn't put weight on it and had to go to the ER in my gym uniform. Talk about mortified!

The most embarrassed I have been about going to the ER was just this past Friday. I went to my doctor's office to redraw some blood work because my original results were odd. She came in and sent me right to the ER because my white blood count was nearly 3X the high end of what it should be. So I go and am trying to explain what is wrong... I felt so bad taking up their time but I wasn't going to ignore my doctor. Luckily my numbers had come down from the first test. I was dehydrated and may have been developing an intestinal bacteria from some antibiotics I had been on (C.Diff. was a worry).

 

[Nolcrest]

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

The same EXACT thing happened to my daughter, except she was talking to me at the time. She also got 5 stitches between the pinky & ring finger.

 

[Sabeking]

All three stories are about my DH

In high school he got in a fight after a football game over a girl. Anyhow he got punched in the mouth. His braces went through his lower lip which he had stitched. His uncle a heart surgeon came over to the house and took them out. My Now DH looks at the handy work in the mirror and goes down like a sack of potatoes. Luckily he avoided the ER and his uncle stitches up his forehead.

Flash forward 25 years. We are at the hospital because I am in labor with our second daughter. My husband is holding my hand during the epidural and guess what?... He goes down like a sack of potatoes again. Cuts his head open and has to go to ER.


Ten years later DH is supposed to have eye surgery. I am in the waiting room for literally 5 minutes. I am thinking that is the fastest surgery ever! Of course there was no eye surgery. Why??? Because he saw the needle and went down like a sack of potatoes.

 

[Luv0fDisney]

i have many stories... many of them does not include me.
But the first one does..i don't think they are too embarrasing but i have to tell them.

Mine happened last year. I had to go to Vegas for a business thing and i had gotten bitten by a bug on the foot, my mom said it would go away. but the day of the flight my foot hurt like (opposite of heaven). I had to hobble into the airport, but were given the attention and was able to by pass the security line (i did have to go through the security machine and stuff but didn't have to wait on line, then i was able to get on one of those carts. But the worst was on the plane itself. OMG. My foot ballooned up like 10x its size. 7 hours later and bellowing in pain practically the entire flight (i feel sorry for the lady who sat next to us). We were the last ones off the plane so I could take my time, and was given a wheel chair one of the airport people wheeled me to the place where people get picked up. My dad's friend drove my mom and i to the hospital where i got a shot in my arm and ALMOST in the rear but I practically cried and had a meltdown. I had a deposition to do two days after. But after i took the medication for a few days I grew allergic to the medication and broke out in rashes through out my body and when I drank something my throat closed a bit. I had to go to ER...

My brother in 4th or 5th grade was running around during recess, He was running down the stairs and some girl was either sitting on the stairs or by the stairs. None the less, my brother fell and his two front teeth went into her head. I'm not sure what happened to her but my brother had to go to to the dentist. Thank God, my mother worked at a dental school.

my dad has a story....
He was ice skating and fell on his butt getting a cut from something. So he later got an infection and had to go to the er to get it oozzed out. He states that he now has a scar shaped as a crescent moon on the right.

Also my uncle, had a glass closet door near the front door, which is right by the stairs to go upstairs. He goes to work at 4:30am and when he was walking down the stairs, he slipped and fell down the stairs feet first. His right foot went through the glass doors and ended up in the ER to get some stitches in his foot. None-the-less, he got rid of the glass doors and got wooden doors.

One last story...
My aunt and uncle were redoing their house adding a second story. One day when my aunt was on the 2nd floor which was practically done, she fell through the floor. She's a tiny person weight wise and broke a few ribs. I remember she was in a cast for the summer.

 

[nighttowll]

We DID, however, have a friend in college who was drunk & got really angry that a girl at the bar had a boyfriend already. He punched a wall & broke his hand. He told the ER his hand got "stuck in a door" but obviously they knew better...

This reminds me. When my cousin was a teenager, his parents were gone for the weekend, so he decided to invite a girl over. Somehow they ended up playing around in the attic jumping from rafter to rafter. I think he was trying to impress her. Well, you can guess what happened; he fell right through the ceiling into the middle of the living room. I mean all the way through to the floor, leaving about a 3 by 5 foot hole behind. Somehow he managed to fall through without getting hurt, but he got so upset afterwards because he knew his parents were going to kill him that he punched his hand into the wall and broke it. His parents ended up thinking he broke it in the fall and were so relieved he hadn't seriously injured himself that they never punished him. It wasn't until he was in his 30s that the truth came out about how he really got hurt.

 

[cybrkitn]

All three stories are about my DH

In high school he got in a fight after a football game over a girl. Anyhow he got punched in the mouth. His braces went through his lower lip which he had stitched. His uncle a heart surgeon came over to the house and took them out. My Now DH looks at the handy work in the mirror and goes down like a sack of potatoes. Luckily he avoided the ER and his uncle stitches up his forehead.

Flash forward 25 years. We are at the hospital because I am in labor with our second daughter. My husband is holding my hand during the epidural and guess what?... He goes down like a sack of potatoes again. Cuts his head open and has to go to ER.


Ten years later DH is supposed to have eye surgery. I am in the waiting room for literally 5 minutes. I am thinking that is the fastest surgery ever! Of course there was no eye surgery. Why??? Because he saw the needle and went down like a sack of potatoes.

Although, I don't blame him for fainting after seeing the needle for the eye surgery. I think I would have done the same thing.