The Emergency Room SUCKS!

“Ok so you're sitting in some old stained chair bleeding from a dozen or so abrassions, feeling like you were hit by a mac truck 2 or 3 times over and YOU still have to sit there HOURS AND HOURS before getting seen ARGH!”

“I swear, I thought this was going to be a mapleleaf thread.

Sorry to hear that hikingirl...”

“Oh dear....what happened?”

“Actually it wasn't that big of a deal i guess. I was just trying to be an idiot on my bike... I was seeing if I could ride without any hands when I was going down a hill...

nothings broken but dang i hurt pretty much all over!”

“Do you need to report to the TT Injured Reserve thread.

Hope you’re ok.”

“Road Rash......”

“YES! Scared for life! Scars ROCK :)”

“It does not appear that the bills have arrived yet.
«« waiting for the screams »»”

“how does she have time to do all this stuff, sit in the ER for hours, sleep, and post on TT all day?...just curious *sniff* i still smell a troll”

“Oh.
I thought you might have fallen off your high horse.

Last spring I did the waitingroom walkabout - with the fifth day of apendisitis. I was in pure misery. "OH! THE PAAAAAAIN!"

But I was "patient", and in due time they literally saved my life.

Please keep our overworked and underpaid healthcare professionals in your thoughts and prayers.”

“swear, I thought this was going to be a mapleleaf thread.

Sorry to hear that hikingirl..."
bitpusher
09:10:52 AM
01/28/03


wow I was having flash backs with this one

sorry hikingirl, feel better. but yes do a thread search for the TT Injured Reserve.”

“some peolpe just smell themselves sometimes...”

“lol, all in jest, mapleleaf...”

“why do you stink ml?”

“nope just smelling a very jelous person thats all....”

“Look, ma, no hands!

...

...

...

Look, ma, no teeth!”

“LOL fritz

did she take pictures?”

“jealous?..confused maybe, what's to be jealous about?”

“We want pictures.”

“I DONT have time to be here all day. I work the night shift untill closing, I get out with friends during the day (when they get out of school) And I ride every morning. If you didn't notice I hadn't posted for most of the day, thank you very much- DAMN ER!”

“unfortunately the worst get treated first”

“hikingirl, its not worth your time on this clown. he just likes to blow smoke in girls faces to p!ss them off. opie go play with your little tonka toy trucks”

“mapleleaf...no darling..just like putting sand in your britches, i have no prob with anyone *smile*”

“Pictures! C'mon, violin always posts pictures of his maladies.”

“What doesn't kill you, may cripple you for life. I guess you won't be doing that again?
Glad nothings broken. (how's the bike)”

“fair enough
~wink~”

“Hope you had your helmet on!”

“ERs... gotta love 'em!

You could always stay home and watch TV on the sofa....”

“Glad to hear there's no permanent damage!

Handle bars are meant to be handled. ;-)”

“Areo- Of course I had a helmet on. I'm not that much of an idiot...besides its the law here.”

“Ha pathman- I know now why! I will probebly end up layghing about all this.”

“I had to get 4 stiches in my finger last Dec. (yes the same doctor took out the banana splinter)
I sat there for almost 4 hours.
4 hours in a New York ER is lots of fun I might add..”

“LMAO- bannana chip.....”

“hikingirl, I hate to seem mean, but there are a lot of patients sicker than you that need treatment now to SAVE their lives. I would hope you would agree that someone with a heart attack, multiple fractures, or trouble breathing would be ahead of you. BTW, I worked in an ER for 7 years.

Good attitude to have maple!”

“tell me more about this bannana chip?”

“I was wondering if someone was going to explain triage. Basically, if it doesn't look like you're going to die, you get to wait.”

“Amen Tango! As a health care worker (who has paid dues in the ER)I really hate to hear people complain about the wait. If the general public weren't forced to use the ER as a Dr's office you wouldn't have the waits. I have three words on this, Health Care Reform!!! I could go on and on about this subject but... I'll get off my soapbox now.

Hope your booboos heal quickly hikingirl.”

“Tango, my sister-in-law worked in the ER for a couple of yrs. The stories she would tell us was unbelieveable. I am not talking about people who are in an accident or near death but the idiots who do stupid things to themselves like sticking a light bulb up there arse.....I laughed so hard that I had tears running down my face.”

“Once when I was a kid, a friend dared me to stick my foot in the front wheel spokes of my bike while riding at full speed, and I did it.

I never claimed to be especially bright.”

“Hey Ewker, did your sister inlaw work at Duke? We had a guy come through here a long time agao with the same symptom. How in the world he got that light bulb up there without braking it was beyond our belief. Getting it out in one piece required major surgery.”

“Artex . . . it's not dumb I tell you . . .not dumb at ALL


Those darn spokes go around and around and around and around . . .its hypnotic . . .They are practically begging to have something stuck in them. Its compelling . . .impossible to resist.

I dare any of you, next time you are on a bike . . . to watch those spokes turning and not feel an overwhelming compulsion to jam something into them.

There's NO story here . . .nope . . .none.”

“When I stabbed myself with a chisel a couple years ago, I was thrilled to walk into the ER and find no one else there. Unfortunately, they had two ambulances on the way in, and I ended up waiting about 3 hours for my 4 stitches. Sorry to hear about the road rash hikingirl....”

“pamster, she worked at a hospital in Nashville then.
Can you imagine what would have happened to the guy if the light bulb broke. Think about all of those tiny pieces of glass.”

“Keep your hands on the handlebars!”

“ewker, you think he would have gotten the "BRIGHT" idea not to do that.



hey come on you all were thinking the smae thing here!!”

“I did that once as a kid Artex. Thought I'd do some tricks on my bike and rest my feet on the little nuts that stick out of the sides of the wheel. I think I was knocked out for a minute there, and never told anyone, lol!”

“It is me. I am Sarabelle.
Did yall theenk I was ded with guts? Well I am not ded. Bruh Weeny is ded tho. He got rund over with a truk. We seen him on the rode ded with guts. It was a sad time. Bruh Weenys daddy made a hole and berryed Bruh Weeny. It was a sad time to.

Any ways, I got a sergry leg at the hopstittel be for. I had to wate and wate and wate for my dokter to say "come in this room to get a sergry leg so you will not hop aroun no mor like a ratbit". So me and my daddy played gimmedat stuft kittykitty and we looked at nother dogs and kittykittys and brids. I smeld a stinky butt to.

I got wayed to. My daddy sayed "oh my goodys! you way LOTS! You got perty good belly mussels I gess."

So in a minit I got a sergry leg. My daddy and Gissmo (he was my boy frend then. Now he is my hubsand) got me in the truk the nother day and we went home. My sergry leg HERT! My daddy sayed "lay down! all the time". So I layed down all the time but went out side some times to pee and do the nother theeng (some buddys do not like to say "doodoo").

Kno what? My dokter sayed "do not go to Monnyloosa and walk in the woods with a sergry leg!" And me and my daddy sayed "ok" - BOL!

By
(o:3”

“O yeh.
I never did ware my pakpak no more when I got a sergry leg. My daddy sayed that I prolly will ware my pakpak agin tho.”

“LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”