WWhen was the last time you were in the E. R and what for?

[Jmmmfi4]

I had a seizure today and was taken by ambulance to the E. R

[Lliam]

Wow! I hope you're okay. Do they know what caused it?

I've only been to an ER a couple of times.

Decades ago, I got a severe pain in the right front of my abdomen.
I went to the ER and, after X-rays, they said there was a kidney stone stuck in my ureter.
They gave me a shot of demerol and the pain stopped. It returned later and I had it for a few days before the stone finally passed.

The last time I went to an ER was due to a nose bleed about a year and a half ago.
I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed when I felt a trickle from my left nostril and saw drops of blood in the sink.
I tried tilting my head back and pinching my nose for a while but the bleeding increased. It turned into a faucet. No matter what I did, it kept bleeding profusely for a couple hours. It was running down my throat and excess was flowing out my other nostril. There was blood everywhere.
My wife finally came in to see what was going on, saw all the blood, and asked if I wanted to go to the ER.
So she drove me while I tried to cover up with one plastic bag, pinched my nose with tissues that got soaked in seconds, and spit blood into another plastic bag.
When we arrived, there was blood all over my shirt.
They stuck a thing way up my nostril and inflated it so it would say.

I went to an ENT doctor the next day but he wasn't concerned and said it would stop.

It kept bleeding for several days. I slept in a recliner in our living room.

Long story, short, it finally stopped.

I had never been prone to nose bleeds before and I haven't had any since. It was bizarre and the cause is a mystery.

[Jmmmfi4]

I have epilepsy

[Lliam]

Sorry to hear that. Do you take meds for it?

[Ez-Bri-Z_v2]

When I was a freshman in high school.

I fell onto a drinking glass which went through my leg and cut up the muscles and tendons. They removed the glass but forgot to reconnect the tendon so I ended up needing another surgery at a later date to repair that. Thankfully I haven't needed to go for myself since then.

[Jmmmfi4]

Damn

[boundless]

I drove someone else to the E. R. last time I went to the E. R. I diagnosed them correctly before we even got to the hospital, but they wanted to get an X-Ray to check for broken bones just to be safe. No broken bones... Last time I sat in an E. R. for myself was 6th grade for a pretty bad broken arm. 30 foot drop out of a tree and landed on a ficus root. Then I swam with a broken arm across a river and walked two miles to civilization to call for a ride to the hospital. The last time I got patched up was getting my fingers stitched back together from machete wounds by an army doctor.

[Bricealan]

@Jmmmfi4 Had something similar. A horrible vertigo episode that left me nearly incapacitated. Vomiting etc. My MD had me go to Urgent Care, and they sent me to the ER at Hoag Hospital for an MRI. She thought from my symptoms that I had perhaps had a 'stroke". Negative for a stroke. Scary.

[RandomGirl42]

I hope you're ok. I mean, you must be or you wouldn't be posting but I hope you stay ok.

Last time I was there was a couple years ago 'cuz a cow stepped on my foot but it wasn't broken. 🐄

[DryGermanGuy]

Ten or so years ago. Circulatory collapse. My first and hopefully last ambulance ride.

[Spencer10]

Last year. Possible concussion from playing hockey.

[exitseven]

I hope that you are okay. I think that it was when I was having a reaction to a medication and I thought I was having a heart attack.

[msc545]

Two days ago, I was working.