re: What would it take for you to go to the ER?

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Went yesterday for carbon monoxide poisoning.

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How did this happen?

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Went yesterday for carbon monoxide poisoning. No wait at all.

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many years ago, we took my son (probably around 6 years old at the time) to an ER on Easter Sunday.

he was playing around with his cousin's dog and somehow got the bridge of his nose sliced open. Nobody saw it happen, so not sure how he got only one cut across bridge of nose. And we could NOT get it to stop bleeding.

we go in, they find out it's a dog, and he immediately skips straight to the front of the line.
in front of one dude that's arm is quite obviously broken in multiple places due to the extra joints he has in it and it's wrapped in a bloody towel.


fast forward many years. I go in on a Monday morning for what turned out to be a heart attack. I'm the only sonofabitch in the waiting room. and it still took them damn near 45 minutes to get me in the back.