hospital experiences?

[Qwikcorty]

I had to have a visit to a hospital today,
after having a tiny bit of metal embedded or rubbed into in my eye since thursday and being mis-diagnosed as conjuntivitis on friday at a bulk billing place. It was removed after waiting 4-1/2 hours in the emergency room today, them promptly after he had finished digging with a sharp tool i passed out and fell off the stool.

So im glad that its out now and i am going to be even more careful with tools and compressed air at work, but also have a headache from hitting the deck with the back of my head.



Anyone else have stories like this, lets hear them

[Thornie]

Spent 6 months in hospital last year, never want to do it again ever.

[Work Horse]

Jesus H Quickcorty, you only have two eyes look after them!!
Rant off

Spent way too much time in hospitals, personally and looking after friends and family. Hospitals are best avoided if you can manage it IMHO.

More people die of hospital admission than any other cause :evil3:

[uranium_death]

I was born in a hospital. My mother had a C-Sec and I was born (back in the year of 1983).

In 1993, my grandfather died in a hospital of a heart attack - the first time I had seen what a dead person looked like.

In 2007 I had six teeth out to fit in with the Collingwood Cheer Squad.
No, not really. Had four wisdoms out due to 3 impacting (4th was pointless anyway so yank it!) and had two teeth at the front out due to dental appliances being fitted shortly afterwards, and my mouth was tightly packed.

The IV drip made me need to urinate a hell of a lot, and I hated the nurses shouting, 'Do you want to go to the toilet' as loud as they could.

Hospital is not fun, but for me, it is not a terrible place, though they do make me nauseous often for reasons unknown. I am not claustrophobic.

There we go.

Originally Posted by Work Horse

More people die of hospital admission than any other cause

I thought death was the number one cause of dying... :sm_headba

[DOC]

Spent the last 20 years plus in and out of hospitals, stories well i could go on for years, so i suppose my most memorable was a story where i was standing next to a little girl on a gurney, her mum was crying her eyes out and the little girl looked at her mum and said, "don't cry mummy I am going to be OK".

Three hours later the little girl had passed away, stuff like that rips you when you see kids with more guts than some whining adults for some pizzly reason, stuff that that puts life into perspective for sure.

[Geez Louise]

*Shudders* The "H" word is quick becoming a swear word in our house!

I have alot of stories but nothing I want to share on AFF.

[tankclare]

To put it simple I hate hospitals.

In 1997 my sister passed away after being rushed to hospital after a freak show ride accident. I can still picture her crying and asking for dad as she was coughing up blood. She died from multiple injuries but the worst doctors described was that her ribs were smashed into hundreds of pieces and punctured her lung. :(

Then in 2000 after years of battling kidney dialysis my dad passed away after suffering from a burst brain tumor caused by blood pressure from the years of dialysis. I remember seeing him not long before he died and holding his hand as he layed in a comar and saying I loved him. I was smashed to bits for ages. Still brings a tear to the eye thinking of it.

I have also been in hospital for 36 stitches after sliding down a grass hill at school and cutting my leg open. Not alot of pain but still I was only in year 2 lol.

[pottery beige]

I once went to hospital with a broken willy.. Do i win.. :

[tankclare]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

I once went to hospital with a broken willy.. Do i win.. :

lol yes...unless its a technical foul. It could just be a thing to do with old age and a free prescription of viagra that you're not telling us about

[blueoval]

Spent 3 weeks in hospital with a rare form of pnuemonia called BOOP (Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia). Lost 18kg in that 3 weeks from that disease. Underwent that many xrays/MRI/CT scans I felt I could glow in the dark. An experience i dont wish apon my enemies.

[pottery beige]

No detail's but i wasn't alone when it happened and it bloody hurt lot's and lot's!!

[geckoGT]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

No detail's but i wasn't alone when it happened and it bloody hurt lot's and lot's!!

Not sure we need details, no need to give you opportunity to brag

[pottery beige]

Agree Gecko.. It got broken and we'll leave it at that..

[3vXT]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

No detail's but i wasn't alone when it happened and it bloody hurt lot's and lot's!!

Did the other guy break his willy too?

[XR6_661]

My hospital experiences...

Having a whipper snipper fall on my head when I worked at bunnings...Thought all was well then 30 seconds later my face was covered in blood and I was off to the quacks. Few stitches later...and a few internal stitches to hold the tissue together.

Grade 12 in school, being idiots and old mate threw a plastic coke bottle at my face from about 6 foot away. The hard plastic edge around the light hit my eyebrow and opened it straight up. Once again, blood everywhere and off to the quacks. No stitches, but they glued it up and the idiot doc glued his finger to my eyebrow so when he pulled away, it opened the wound back up.

Worst hospital experience. Was doing my usual downhill mtb runs at a local track...came a gutsa and head first into a big tree at a rate of knots.
Woke up in a hospital bed, neck brace on and everything. Big of bleeding out the ears and a splitting headache.

Oh and I've also been to the hospital for a willy related injury.

[ch33z1l]

My worst one was when I was about 10-11 racing my cousin to the bathroom to wash up before tea. He went running through the loungeroom, while I ran down the dimly lit hallway face first into a closed door. My big toe went under the door and sheared the nail straight off.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by ken2903

Did the other guy break his willy too?

...................

[EgoFalcon]

I am not a person for sad stories so here we go.

1. I was admitted to hospital on christmas day when I was 7 or 8. It was a very windy day and we had this wooden umbrella which was very heavy. So all in all, I was swimming in the pool avoiding social activity with my family and the wind picks up the umbrella and smacks me on the back of the head and knocks me out. Sister couldn't help but laugh because I looked like a floating corpse with blood around me. So rushed off to hospital (lucky had the au xr8 that day!) and the dill surgeon glued my head back together... BUT! left the tip of his plastic gloves, glued into my head... merry christmas... yea right...

2. I broke my wrist in indoor soccer and they called ambulance and I was sitting down, my mates brother isnt the smartest of people and goes "heres an ice pack" and slaps it onto my wrist, I shouted at him in words I cannot say on here, let your imagination run wild!
Finally got to the hospital and they gave me morphine, mate that stuff is awesome! Before going into surgery they were talking and rolling me along and the main surgeon had 2 front teeth missing and I couldnt help myself (it was the morphine trust me) and kept saying "wheres your teeth hill billy man? aye?" one of the nurses kept laughing so much so didnt see where she was going and ran into an elderly man.

They were the memorable times I have had.

[Fev]

When i was in year 6 (2000) i tripped and broke my arm in a school hall way (fell over a whole bunch of crap they left in the hall way like tv's and cases and ******** - total OH&S fail). Headed to Westmead Kids hospital and was put in to get it reset that day. They put me under with happy gas *note, really is HAPPY lol* and proceeded to reset my arm. Half way through i woke back up and started beating on the doctor because to reset the arm they have to wrench and twist it so the bone is back in place and this is extremely painful - especially to a 12 year old.

Finally once it was set and cast i went home only to go back two weeks later to get it re-xrayed and they found that i had also broken my WRIST. This time it was done at The San (great hospital) and they actually knocked me out properly this time with some real anesthetic - All fixed, although it's still pretty weak

Other hospital history:

• 4mths old - had Chronio Stenosis(sp) where the plates in the skull fuse too early and don't allow the brain to grow. They had to cut my head open and remove chunks of skull - now i've got a massive upside down "Y" shaped scar on my head. Something like 160 stiches over the course of the operations. Should scan a picture after it had healed if i can find them

• Two years ago i had 4 screws and two rods bolted to my lower spine - Now have two train tracks down my lower back as scars

• Bitten by a spider when i was 8, spent a week in hospital
• Massive inch long splinter removed from my lower arm when i was a kid from sliding down a wooden fence

Oh and i agree with you Ego - Morphine is awesome, I only got it for about a day when I had my spine surgery two years ago and then they took it away :( Evil monsters!!

[Fev]

Originally Posted by XR6_661

My hospital experiences...

Oh and I've also been to the hospital for a willy related injury.

Spill the beans hehe (I hope you didn't spill your beans!!)

[Jason[98.EL]]

not me but my youngest son


He spent just under a month at the Royal Childrens Hospital Melbourne after we noticed an abnormal color in his vomit. He was flown from Geelong and then opperated on the next day. The rch is a brillient hospital and remember the Good Friday Appeal and give that they may grow

Jason

[Neeek]

There have been many happy times that I've walked through the big doors at the hospital, the birth of my two little ones being highlights.

As for me, I've only had a few brushes with A&E...

1. When I was 17 I was knocked off my bike on a small country lane in deepest darkest Norfolk. Driver didn't stop, but I managed to pedal the 2 miles home. Step-dad took me straight to A&E with a BIG gash in the back of my right calf where my delightfully purple anodised Middleburn 46t chainring (it was the early 90s, purple was SO hot back then!) stabbed me. They gave me a local anaesthetic jab (a few, actually) and then stitched me up. My step-father still remembers me squeezing the llife out of his hand as they rammed in 23 stitches... and only when I walked out of the hospital did my leg go numb from the jabs, so he had to practically carry me to the car! We laughed.

2. 18 years of age, and I'm riding my KR1-S near home in Norfolk again. The details of the spill are simple - oil on the road, lost the bike sideways in a turn, tried to power out (and I remember the feeling of "yeah, I've got this..!!") and then the bike high-sided and chucked me through a hedge. Bike was a write-off, I woke up in said hedge and was carted off to A&E. Bruised, a broken rib and and a bit sore, but otherwise OK. Thinking back now, I have no idea why they didn't keep me in overnight as I had been concussed, but I went home that evening a little worse for wear, but otherwise unscathed. And my new leathers and helmet went straight in the bin. Apart from one happy and incident-free weekend in my early 20s, that was the last time I rode a motorcycle.

3. I'm 21 and living in London, commuting on my mountain bike. As is common in London for cyclists, I'm riding like a demeted dervish and after a near miss with one bus, I was collected by another fully-laden double decker. In peak hour traffic. It ran over my left foot (thank God it wasn't any more of me) and after I'd tried unsuccessfully to get myself out of the road by standing up and walking, I crawled to the kerb in agony, dragging my bike with me. Not one motorist came to my aid. Some nice chap walking along the footpath called the ambos and I got a ride to A&E where the NHS pronounced only soft-tissue damage and sent me on my way. One week later, still in a lot of pain, another X-ray revealed 6 or 7 broken bones in my foot, which by now was too swollen to be casted up.

Went through pysio to learn to walk again, was on crutches for 4 months and I still don't have any feeling in my left foot because the nerves were just destroyed. Not a fun experience.

4. More two-wheeled troubles... my wife and I went riding with some friends on our mountain bikes in Bunya State Forest. Big descent on a fire road with a rut half way down and I was off, telling them all I'd see them at the bottom. I didn't. After a few minutes, I got on my bike and painfully (for it was a singlespeed!!) crawled up the hill to find my wife sitting in the trail, covered in blood, dazed, surrounded by a few other friends. She'd hit the rut and gone OTB, using her face as a brake. Her helmet was visibly cracked. We carted her off to RBWH A&E in a friend's car (and were chastised by the ambos for not calling them when we pulled up - fair call) and there she received brilliant care. Lascerations to her cheek and forehead, gravel rash on her thigh and hands, no concussion, and a scratched eyeball. They patched her up a treat and we took her home that evening.

I wrote to MET helmets and personally thanked them for saving her life, along with a picture of the destroyed helmet. They sent me a brand new one by return. And my wife still has the dent in her forehead... lol

5. The most recent was something I'm not going to talk about here, but I admitted myself to A&E on a Sunday morning a few months back. Was a few firsts for me... first time I'd ever stayed overnight in a hospital (they took me in for two nights), first time I'd ever had morphine (and I really hated it, but boy you can understand why people get addicted to that stuff - it's just INSTANT - biggest "hit" I've had in my life) and first time I was actually really frightened of what was going on. Oh, and the first time I've ever passed out as well. Fun, fun, fun.

It's interesting that as I type this out, I'm reminded of the sheer crapulence of the NHS in the UK, in stark contrast to the excellent care I have either experienced or witnessed in the public health system here in Australia.

Should I ever require serious medical treatment, I hope to hell I'm near the RBWH. They're a bunch of unsung heroes in there, having helped me, my wife and my little boy. They work horrendously long hours, they suffer stress I can't imagine, they get paid bugger-all and they fix things.

I salute every single one of them.

[XR6_661]

Originally Posted by Fev

Spill the beans hehe (I hope you didn't spill your beans!!)

In a nut shell.

Was perfecting my horizantal rumba like it was Christmas and let's just say that friction can tear things.

That was an awkward one to explain to mum why I emerged from the bedroom clutching the jewels with blood everywhere.

[Fev]

Originally Posted by XR6_661

In a nut shell.

Was perfecting my horizantal rumba like it was Christmas and let's just say that friction can tear things.

That was an awkward one to explain to mum why I emerged from the bedroom clutching the jewels with blood everywhere.

Ouch! I've caught the Zipper once and that hurt like bloody hell.. Even worse having to unzip it!

[flappist]

Originally Posted by geckoGT

Not sure we need details, no need to give you opportunity to brag

Hospitals aren't the problem, it is the big square taxis that take you there that are the real scary thing......(some of the drivers think they are in a pink ute on lakeside)

[Road_Warrior]

I was hospitalised 10 years ago with a broken pelvis and one day these bogans came into the ward to bash the guy in the bed opposite me

It was pretty intense.

[#Russ#Es#]

Originally Posted by tankclare

To put it simple I hate hospitals.

In 1997 my sister passed away after being rushed to hospital after a freak show ride accident. I can still picture her crying and asking for dad as she was coughing up blood. She died from multiple injuries but the worst doctors described was that her ribs were smashed into hundreds of pieces and punctured her lung. :(

Then in 2000 after years of battling kidney dialysis my dad passed away after suffering from a burst brain tumor caused by blood pressure from the years of dialysis. I remember seeing him not long before he died and holding his hand as he layed in a comar and saying I loved him. I was smashed to bits for ages. Still brings a tear to the eye thinking of it.

I have also been in hospital for 36 stitches after sliding down a grass hill at school and cutting my leg open. Not alot of pain but still I was only in year 2 lol.

Some tough visits you've had there! Can see why you hate hospitals.

My wife (only 26) will be starting dialysis in the next 2 months, will be interesting times.

She is also getting on a waiting list very soon for a double transplant (kidney and pancreas) so she hopefully won't be on dialysis for long - it doesn't sound pleasant. All going well she shouldn't be on the waiting list more than 2 years. Only 25 people per year have this operation in Oz.

I think I know our local hospital (St George, Kogarah) better than some of the nurses!

[gtfpv]

my son had a birth mark above his eye . it grew rapidly and he took high dose steroids for 6 months on and off . he had surgury at 2 years old to remove it . when he woke we heard screams from recovery and a nurse ran out saying quick little hurcules is throwing nurses around . he didnt know them and was scared to wits when he woke in recovery . when we went in he was actually stronger than the grown female nurses because of the roids i got into try and calm him down and felt his adult like strength before he'd recognised me and settled down . but hospitals do good things too more than bad . thats why we go to them .

[SB076]

I have been a patient too many times unfortunately the last few times were not particularly pleasent

1) Broken jaw - 6 hour op - can feel some of the screws in my face - I dont know how they got there (they didnt cut my face, but they are a long way from my mouth)

2) 3 Visits for knee recos - first one was my fault (not really an accident) ops 2 and 3 were due to me picking up an infection in hosipital (staugh)

Had other experiences but they haven't been that bad. Most hospitals are good there are some very good people involved in hospitals that put your health before their own.

[Franco Cozzo]

Yeah, I was in for 4 days, one night in the emergency ward and 3 in the isolation ward. I had something similar to gastro, I hadn't been able to eat in just over a full week, then eventually it got to a stage where I'd drink something and it'd come right out the other end (the rear one too) in about 2 minutes, I had to have 8 IV drip bags to get me hydrated again.

I was throwing up so much I stripped the lining off my throat, stomach and so much diorrea they said I stripped the lining on my bowel too. They couldn't diagnose what it was, but after that I can't eat salad as it wont digest, anything with chilli causes severe heartburn and same with onions, also have trouble with McDonalds as it goes right through me.

Hospital was so boring, especially in the isolation ward, I wasn't allowed to leave my room to go for a walk, so it was 3 days of midday TV.

I had this real hot nurse, about my age looking after me, I ruined my chances with my diorrea though haha.

I had just turned 18 when I got really sick too, great way to kick off being able to do many thigns I previously couldn't, I started off by getting admitted into an adult hospital.