- Joined
- Nov 18, 2017
- Messages
- 11,082
- Purraise
- 45,760
How could I forget I had a couple triage trips to the hospital during the pregnancy for bleeding. Again, not kept overnight, but I think it still counts.
-
Too many ads? Join our community of cat lovers now to reduce ads by 90%! Click here to join for free!
Question of the Day, Friday, January 8
- Thread starter Winchester
- Start Date
I'm disabled, so I've been in the hospital more times than I can count! The longest was nearly 2 months.
Once in the fifth grade for a couple of weeks ...got hit in the leg by a big rock,cracked the bone and caused a blood clot....in 1970 when my son was born...and that has luckily been it.Same day carpal tunnel,same day knee scope.
Ha ha...sort of chuckling here as I had my first car crash in years and years yesterday and at one stage was thinking I was going to end up there.
No I didn't end up in hospital.only casualty was my undies and a car and trailer.
Only times i have ended up staying in hospital was broken cheek bone (motorbike crash) Cut off achilles tendon (motor bike crash)
Trod on a sea urchin. Busted ribs twice.
ER lots of times for cuts , busted fingers and thumbs and other silly things.
No I didn't end up in hospital.only casualty was my undies and a car and trailer.
Only times i have ended up staying in hospital was broken cheek bone (motorbike crash) Cut off achilles tendon (motor bike crash)
Trod on a sea urchin. Busted ribs twice.
ER lots of times for cuts , busted fingers and thumbs and other silly things.
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2018
- Messages
- 5,593
- Purraise
- 11,280
I've only been to the hospital twice. Once when I was 4 to get stitches on my chin after falling and smacking my face on the floor. My chin took the brunt and it split right open. Then about 10 years ago...I had a kidney stone, but didn't know what it was. After writhing in pain at home for 4-5 hours, I finally asked my husband to bring me in. I checked in, and based on my symptoms, the nurse said it was possibly a kidney stone. Another nurse took me back to get blood and pee sample. She read my chart and said "Oh! kidney stone...poor thing!" and offered me a wheel chair...I wasn't walking too upright. Of course I refused...I'm stubborn! LOL! Then I got sent back to the reception/waiting area. The wait time was ridiculous though, and after sitting in the ER waiting area for another 3 hours...the pain dissipated. About 30 minutes later I was finally called back.....just to have to wait in a different area. I asked the nurse how much longer it would be and she said that I was on "the board" so maybe about another 2 hours. I asked if I could go home because the pain was gone, and if it was a kidney stone..I obviously passed it by myself. At this point it was 2 am, we had a Christmas dinner to go to that night and I was exhausted. She asked me to wait just a bit longer and she would look at my chart to see the results of the blood and urine test first. When she came back, she said my blood work was normal but I had abnormalities with my urine sample....that's the extent that she could tell me, but "the way" she spoke to me suggested I could go home...so I signed myself out (she didn't suggest I stay) and went home to bed. A couple of days later, I went pee and after wiping...there it was. This huge spiky kidney stone on the TP. It measured 6mm! No wonder they hurt so bad!!!! No issues since though.
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2020
- Messages
- 3,072
- Purraise
- 14,183
I had to go to the hospital as a young child because I had some really bad bug that made me run a high fever and vomit alot. I was in the children's ward for over 2 weeks-- that's how debilitating this illness was. I celebrated my sixth birthday in the hospital and made some friends. I also was a little spit fire towards the end of my hospital stay. I would jump alot on the hospital bed having some fun with the other kids. The nurses were constantly scolding me. I think they were relieved when I was released. Too much to handle!
First time I was kept in over night was when I was about 4. I fell backwards down a flight of stairs and knocked myself out. Then I had several trips to ER. Broken fingers falling into a drain when I was about 8, broken collar bone falling off a pony when I was 12 and then another concussion falling out of a tree that same year. Also two motorbike accidents, another horse fall/concussion and hit by a car crossing a street.
I haven't been quite so accident prone since I passed 20. In the past few years it's only been a broken toe and an infected cat scratch. But I still ride horses regularly, so there's always a good chance.
I haven't been quite so accident prone since I passed 20. In the past few years it's only been a broken toe and an infected cat scratch. But I still ride horses regularly, so there's always a good chance.
I had surgery when I was 6 months old because my bowels tunneled in on themselves, so that was the first time (aside from when I was born). The second, and only other time, I was in the hospital was when I had weight loss surgery in 2017.
To have my appendix removed when I was 13 years old. Had the operation around 8 or 9pm and then was sent home the next day in the afternoon.
I have been in the hospital 5 times. When I had my tonsils out, when I had an infection in my chin bone, when I had graves disease and had eye surgery and loss of vision in my left eye, when I had a partial blockage between my stomach and small intestine last February and had to have part of my stomach removed and in April when I had to have surgery on my stomach again because I developed a bad infection. I was in 3 different hospitals for that for 2 months and 3 weeks in rehab. I am now waiting to have both knees replaced and a hernia surgery soon.
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2020
- Messages
- 4,426
- Purraise
- 12,408
My youngest was born with an undiagnosed diaphragmatic hernia that wasn't discovered until he was 10 days old and turned blue.
Only when DD was born in 1995
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2018
- Messages
- 4,171
- Purraise
- 12,686
The only time I, myself, ever was confined to a hospital was when I gave birth.
Shoulder/Biceps tendon surgery performed at the same time (how I contracted RSD/CRPS) done out-patient
Tonsils removed when I was five, contracted phenomena, in for 5 days
cassiopea
Oh my, what a slew of surgeries for such a baby girl!! Look at you now, a ballerina!!!
Tonsils removed when I was five, contracted phenomena, in for 5 days
cassiopea
Oh my, what a slew of surgeries for such a baby girl!! Look at you now, a ballerina!!!- Joined
- Aug 6, 2018
- Messages
- 7,110
- Purraise
- 21,616
Mine was an inguinal hernia, and I spent around a week in the hospital. The worst part, aside from the post-op pain, was when they used that ether drip to put me under. Gawd, but it tasted terrible!
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2018
- Messages
- 5,593
- Purraise
- 11,280
It wasn't a solid 6mm stone. I measured it from spike to spike because, well, it's the spikes that were tearing up my insides....but they can form in many different sizes from little grains of sand, to stones that need to be surgically removed or blasted because they are to big to pass. And yes, wicked pain. But the good news in all this...I have a pretty healthy tolerance for pain and if they say that a kidney stone is at/near the top of the list of pain causing issues...then I guess I can get thru anything....and I had no pain medications either.OMG, I always thought they were small!! You must've been in such wicked pain!
I've only had one surgery: eye surgery when I was in kindergarten, but I think that was not an overnight thing. I can't be sure though since I was so young and pretty wasted on anesthesia. I've been to urgent care many a time for broken bones and twice while I had Mono (once to get tested, the next time a week later when I couldn't even drink water...but they just gave me an IV and some steroids (I think?)) Otherwise I've been very lucky. My immediate family has been, too. None of us have had extended stays. Part of me thinks its because we traveled a lot through the years so we were exposed to a lot of different bacterial fauna. All of our injuries have been pretty simple broken bones or lacerations (like cooking knife accidental slices.)
