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

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This is outdated and not what doctors advise. If fever is high but responding to meds there’s no need to freak out.

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It’s been a few years, but this is all we were ever told be nurses and doctors. Maybe this is a recent change?

It’s also what most search results recommend when you google it.

Copious amounts of pain

Jesus, did you pass out? Feel like shite? Taking a nap?

I’d imagine the parents have a different take on this than non-parents.

When I was a kid my mom caught my appendicitis quick. Not because I was showing any major symptoms, just because of enough little things to catch her radar and take me in.

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If your kid is running 104 and it’s 2AM I’d hope you’d go to the ER.

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Yeah… no.

If their fever responds to meds and stays below 105, no need to clog up the ER. Sucks to watch the little one suffer, but not much the ER is going to do for you in that situation.

I went two weeks ago when a metal shovel handle broke off in my hand. Cut it pretty bad, took a few stitches.

I’ve been twice in the past 40 years or so. Two kidney stone episodes…first back in ‘07 or so. Had just spent a couple hours of doing yard work in 90+ degree heat and didn’t even make it out of the shower, didn’t know what the hell was going on. I was on the ground in my bedroom curled up in the fetal position. Wife walks in and I tell get to get me to the ER. Thankfully, I passed the stone that same night.

2nd episode was the morning after a golf tournament about six years ago where I was dehydrated from the day before. Woke up on a Sunday morning to that god awful pain and laid in bed til I started getting nauseous and woke the wife up and said let’s go. Luckily again, I passed it the same day.

That CT showed I had about 4 more stones in my kidney…they could decide to move tomorrow or stay in there til I checkout. I start off with a couple cups of coffee in the morning and drink nothing but water(lots of it) the rest of the day.

In the triage room when the nurse is getting my info…I hurled both times. “On a scale of 1-10, what is your pain level?” I gave it a solid 9.

I went in for serious chest pains once.

Turned out to be heartburn and anxiety

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Went yesterday for carbon monoxide poisoning. No wait at all. They just rushed me straight back.

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Catting around with a secret friend and going parking in a closed garage didn’t work out so well….

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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.