Time in hospital/ injuries /ouch moments , share yours!

junior_j

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Ok so i know we have all hurt ourselfs , weather its a stubbed toe , broken arm , burn of a organ problem.. we all end up saying about it on threads to do with other medical stuff..

Me

I have dislocated my finger - how- i was taking the new kitten i got to the car , tripped , kitten landed in the car thank God , i put my hand on the passenger door frame( mum was in passenger seat) before i knew it , she shut the door so hard it clicked shut over my finger , with instinct i pulled it out and dislocated it. the hospital couldnt even strap it to ease the pain as it was to swollen lol!

Dislocated shoulder - mucking about with friends , played take down , landed awkwardly on my shoulder! Didnt wear the sling and occasionally it comes out of place.

Burn to arm - put my arm on a boiling hot metal kettle by accident!

Had many hospital stays due to IBS and PCOS

Now your turn? lol
 

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I had a mysterious pain on my 21st Birthday. They never figured it out. Now I wonder if it was a burst cyst. I have been pretty lucky that it was my only major issue.

Mom has had two surgeries this year and both times she spent 3 hours in recovery. The last time she felt nauseous.
 

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Over 46 years of life, there are way too many to mention. Suffice it to say that I've had my share of injuries and illnesses, some minor, some major and have even spent some time in the hospital on a few occasions.
 

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My most recent was a fall down the stairs a week and a half ago, landing on my tailbone. Its still hard to sit comfortably
 

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Since I was about 4 or so, I've been amazingly lucky. Never broke a bone until this spring, when I fell down a flight of steps on vacation (those who have been around a while remember it).

Other than that, I've spent exactly one night in a hospital, in January of 1984, with a kidney stone.

I almost died in the hospital with measles when I was 18 months old. Anyone who doesn't vaccinate their kids against that nasty disease, which left its marks on me permanently, deserves to be horsewhipped.
 

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I went to Urgent Care once for a severely sprained ankle (we'd thought I'd broken it.) Since then I've sprained both ankles multiple times and have given up on them.


Worst was when I ended up in the ER for chest/stomach pains. Curled up on the floor of the ER for about an hour before I saw a doctor... Gall bladder came out that week. Apparently I'd had stones pass before but had attributed it to heartburn/gas, since I'd never had either before. Worst part is that I realized after that I'd had this happen periodically since I was 13-ish.

No wonder it had to go.


The surgery was outpatient, though, and the nurses were very nice.
 

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I currently still have a jammed toe that I jammed about 2.25 months ago. Was running up the stairs(not smart at 350 pounds) and took a mis-step and landed on my knee and my big toe went head first into the step. that HURT and my grandmother thought I broke the stair case(she does NOT like fat people). She didn't even believe I was hurt, she was more worried about the steps.

Other than the lovely scratches, cuts, and scars that come from cat ownership nothing really bothers me right now. I almost tore a tendon in my knee while running the mile(at 430+pounds) and after the MRI they found that I just dislocated my knee cap. Didn't relocate its self until I had weight loss surgery about 2-3 years after that.

That surgery required a 1 day stay in the hospital and I don't remember much other than having trouble breathing on my own for about 3 hours after coming out of anesthesia...thats a fun alarm to hear when your stoned out of your gourd(WAY over medicated)...you think your dieing.
 

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I actually did pretty good staying away from hospitals until I was about college age. And then, well...

I fell one winter on the ice and broke my knee. Wound up in the ER. Had surgery for it, but it didn't really improve anything.

A few months after that I got this awful abscess that had to be surgically removed. Spent 3 days in the hospital trying to get over the infection.

I've broken the same toe three different times. The second time had to have been the worst - it had just healed up and I slammed it in a car door.

Had a horrible induction with my son, which turned into an emergency C-section and a weeks' stay in the hospital. It would have been longer, but I signed myself out.

My "best" so far, was last December. I wound up going to the ER in absolute agony. Turns out it was my gallbladder. I wound up with pancreatitis too, and stayed in the hospital 5 days; I had to sign myself out because there was no one to take care of my son. They refused to remove my gallbladder until February. I had 100+ gallstones!

I think I'm done with things like this now!
 

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I was pretty lucky growing up, never had to go to the hospital, never broken a bone.

When I was 14, I was having HORRIBLE stomach pains, went to the hospital, they said it was constipation. They gave me milk of magnesia, told me to follow up wit my family doc on monday (it was friday nite). So I went the whole weekend throwing up and being in pain. Monday I went to the family doc & he sent me back to the ER. After a catscan, they told me I had appendicitis. So I spent a week in the hospital after the surgery, until I would eat something.

I got into an argument with this kid, and it got physical. I broke my pinkie finger on his face.

Then, in January, I was hit by a truck on the road outfront of my house. I spent a week in a medically induced coma. I broke my leg in 2 places, fractured my pelvis in 3 places, had a fractured skull, bruising of the brain, and a collapsed lung. I was in the hospital for about a month.

This january coming up, I will be going in to have another surgery on my leg, and will probably be in the hospital for about 4 days.
 

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Dislocated a finger when a horse I was leading had a spaz.

Broken elbow when a car hit me on my bicyle.

Dog bite on my thigh when I stepped on our labs foot.

Paper stitches to my calf after catching my leg on car door.

Broken nose after my sister was teaching me to skip with a rope and I fell flat on my face on the pavement.

Broken big toe after tripping up stairs

Broken nose after I was hit by a bike on my way to school.

Broken nose after falling on my face after swinging in between two desks at school.

Scar above my ankle from when I was sat dangling my legs out the back of my dads van when he was reversing and he reversed into a wooden packing case with my leg in between.

About 4 surgeries to fix my eye.

One operation to fix my eye, nose and take bone out of my jaw.

Yep, i was a pretty accident prone kid


Now I`m just waiting for a date from the hospital. I`m getting the Ravitch procedure done because I have Pectus Excavatum. Really not looking forward to that but I`m hoping it will be worth it after
 

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Let's see.....

1975 - tonsils out, hospital 2 days (i think)

1985 - teaching myself how to surf, ran board up onto sand, board stopped, I didn't and snapped my ankle, thought it was a sprain, but found out 2 years later it was a break, now have limited movement in left foot.

late 80's - fell and hit my head on a brick corner, bleeding and stitches

Oct. 1991 - Hernia operation, outpatient, had to wake me up a few times to get me out of the hospital.

mid 90's - was out in the ocean in a small boat, got inside the breakers and the only way beyond was over them. Hit one wave and went about 20 feet airborne, jammed tailbone upon landing and was sore for about 2 months.

March 2004 - Carpal Tunnel surgery on left hand, took pills prior to surgery and, after feeling the effects, asked for more! Opted for anathesia which only knocked me out halfway, could feel the procedure but only barely. When they say you can't use your hand at all...believe them!!!

There were others, but that's the major ones I remember...

oh, and was carrying a cat down the street when it decided to freak out and shred my arm!!! That was about 1976! I was about 8 then.
 

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We had one of these threads last year, iirc. Though, we've gained and lost some members since then.

I'm not going to list injuries, there's been too many.
I'll just leave it at: I've only broken two toes, never had severe burns, I'm always covered in bruises, have had several concussions, and won't go to the ER for things people typically go to the ER for (palpitations, chest pain, extreme pain, etc).

Just in the past year I've been in the hospital three times. First was because of an abnormal EKG that upset my paranoid GP. Second was an ER visit then a four day hospital stay due to C. diff. Last was for my cholecsystectomy - it was the shortest stay out of all of them.
I have just over an month and a half to go for this year - lets hope I don't end up in there again this year.
 

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Lets see....I spent an evening in the ER after I fell all 200 lbs of me directly on my kneecap and it swelled up so bad and so fast that hub thought I'd broken it (nope).

2003, I spent two nights in the hospital, and three months at home recovering from a hysterectomy .......thanks to the anesthesia I wasn't mentally myself for that long...and still have some memory problems due to it.
 

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Other than basic owies, my childhood was a lot more hospital-prone than lately!

I was born with a birth defect in my bladder / kidneys that almost killed me on multiple occasions. I would get kidney infections that would spread, and I'd end up with fevers of 105, be purple and completely lethargic. 'Bout scared my parents to death! Took the doctors 5 years to figure out what was wrong, and I finally had a surgery to correct it. But in those 5 or so years, I went in and out of the hospital many times.

Also, I had asthma as a kid. Had a few nasty attacks that also ended me up in the hospital. Fortunately, I out grew that, and haven't had an attack since about 9 years old!


Lately, I only really had appendicitis, for my 19th birthday, two months after getting home from my homestay in Japan. I'm just glad it waited!!
 

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I have too many to list. The worst I think was spinal meningitis from the mumps when I was 21. I was in the hospital 3 1/2 weeks. I was unable to stand or walk for over two weeks. That was a little scary.
 

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Too many to list everything, but a short list goes something like this:

I am a welder so I always have a good selection of burns (mostly 1st and 2nd degree but occasionally 3rd)

I have had a broken leg, broken hand, punctured eardrum (still punctured), cut myself twice with my hand pruners to the extent that I needed stitches (I like sharp pruners), various other cuts and scrapes.

I have a dislocated tailbone due to a fall down the stairs. I went to the ER because I looked in the mirror and saw that my tailbone was no longer where it had been all my life (and it really hurt). Very poor quality x-rays were taken and the ER doc said there was nothing wrong. I said "but my tailbone is dislocated" he said "not according to these films" so I said "you can't even see my tailbone on those films and I know it is doslocated because if you look at my butt, I used to have a tailbone, and now I don't. It is no longer located where it used to be" so he said "sorry, nothing we can do about it". So it is still dislocated. I have the pic that hubby took of the bruise on my buttcheek (he showed it to his entire family at Christmas the first year we were married) but it isn't really appropriate
 

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The most painful: an ectopic pregnancy that took them 6 weeks to diagnose properly. Spent a long time in the hospital on that one. That one nearly killed me.

The most frequent: over 30 biopsies for cysts. It got so bad that I had my surgeon's phone number speed dialed on my phone, as I was seeing him about every 3 months. At least he was cute.

The most unusual: A stupid infection under my thumb nail that had to be surgically removed. When they found 5 strains of bacteria in my thumb, they sent me to an infectious disease specialist, who put me on antibiotics that nearly killed me. Had I not caught it in time, they told me that they could have amputated my thumb, my hand, or my entire arm. And the infection came from an injury that happened 40 years earlier.

I'm usually healthy, but when I get something, I get it good.
 

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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Over 46 years of life, there are way too many to mention.
Me too! But about 20 years ago, when the list was not quite so long, I had that conversation (by phone) with a Gentleman Friend. We took turns explaining the various scars we had each acquired in our lives, and about halfway through my list, he noted, "It sounds like you have an awful lot of injuries to your right side, my dear. Perhaps you ought to sidle around leftward for awhile!"
 

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Here's all that I can remember

Early 1990s - chicken pox
Sometime in 1998 - severe constipation; spent several days in hospital
Spring 2000 - second degree burn on right index finger
2000 - dog bite on left forearm (now a 1 cm long scar)
first week of September 2000 - kidney infection, complete with fever and hallucinations
November 2003 - unknown stomach/intestinal illness. Doctors couldn't figure out what it was, but knew it was not normally seen in teenagers. Might have been a gastric ulcer.
Fall 2003 - onslaught of panic attacks
Winter 2005 - damaged cartilage in right knee
Spring 2006 - second wave of panic attacks/agoraphobia/depression begins. I missed about two months of school and was in and out of psychiatrist and psychologist offices.
Fall 2007 - heart palpitations

Originally Posted by Momofmany

The most unusual: A stupid infection under my thumb nail that had to be surgically removed. When they found 5 strains of bacteria in my thumb, they sent me to an infectious disease specialist, who put me on antibiotics that nearly killed me. Had I not caught it in time, they told me that they could have amputated my thumb, my hand, or my entire arm. And the infection came from an injury that happened 40 years earlier.
Freaky. What was the old injury?
 
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