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my turn for the emergency room

We have this television dish up on top of the fireplace that points to the woods and i decide its time again to climb up and trim.  I gear up with my pole climbers, belt and safety harness with a hand saw on my belt and a larger handsaw on a rope trailing behind me on a rope so i can pull it up if i need it then drop it when i dont.

My first tree was a yellow poplar and it sort of cork screws as it goes up and was real fun to climb if you can imagine.

i come down and after touching ground, i notice im trapped.  The rope that was trailing with the bigger hand saw was caught in the tree just above me but out of reach.  I take a few minor steps up the tree and get it unstuck.  I had no safety harness connected cause i knew i just needed to go up three or four feet.  I reach over , undo the saw and head back down.

Im bear hugging the tree so i have to feel my way down with my feet.

I take gentle stabs to the tree and head down.  My last stab with the gaff goes right into the side of my right calf muscle.  I look down and pull it out saying "aww f#@$" as though this was just some minor but typical reoccurance.  I look down and it squirts a few times then stops.  Good thing i think to myself,, this means its only muscle.  I just wondered about the gaff and all the tree sap ect that i now stuck myself with.  Im up to speed on my shots and all so it really isnt a big deal to me other than my leg hurt a little.

I  go to the emergency room (wife insisted).  We get there at 4pm.  We wait, im bleeding, we wait, i stop bleeding.  I take a cople spells cause thats what happens when i loose blood fast.  I have big veins and have no problem giving blood quickly,, too quickly.  When i loose blood, its the same feeling you get when you get out of a hot bath and stand up too fast.  Only i sweat and go cold instead.

anyway,, at round 8:30 pm, i decide im fine and this is nonsense so i head home, no sense in my boys starving and the wife also just sitting there knowing at 8:30 there are three people ahead of us.

oh well, emergency rooms suck.  Its pretty bad when you see people come in,, check in,, and you see them about an hour later coming back in with mcdonalds and stuff.  Its like they know the drill., the waiting game.

We dont have any of those walk in clinics here like stat care or out patient ect so i had no choice.

I get home redo the bandage and just put some turpentine, pine sap and a bandaid on it.

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Reply #1 –
Hope ya feel better soon man, that sucks ass. Probaly worse as you did it on the last step

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Reply #2 –
Ouch that had to hurt! Don't forget that some chewing tabacco will keep it from getting infected. LOL
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Reply #3 –
sorry to hear about your injury, i gaffed telephone poles for  years.  cought myself in the ankle once through my boot.  hope you get better and it doesn't get infected.
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Reply #4 –
im not down,, im just limping.  Matter of fact,, im gonna head out and do some mulching.  Had to compromise wth the wife, she says stay down but im not bleeding, it feels better if i stay moving so hell on it.  i got shiznit to do.:D

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Reply #5 –
I cut myself a couple of years ago in the hand and wife insisted that I go to the emergency room.  I checked in and waited about 2 hours and the call me in; only to go to another waiting room.  I sit there for about 45 minutes and notice it quit bleeding.

I get up to leave and they say I can't. I tell them, just watch me.  My wife refused to give me the car keys so I walked home.  About a mile down the road she comes to pick me up, mad as hell.  Drove me over to a friends house who is a PA, he cleans it and tell me I'm going to live.

Another time I broke two vertebra in a motorcycle accident and I still had to wait 2 hours.  Did not go home this time but I was sure in a lot of pain waiting.

I guess the hearth attacks come first.

TED
 

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: Cad-T-Bird 500;174139

I guess the hearth attacks come first.

 
Not always true! When I had my first heart attack I waited just shy of 7 hours to be seen and wound up hospitalized for a couple of days. The doc almost made me miss my road test for my license!

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Reply #7 –
I cut my leg deeply one time with a boxcutter while trying to cut the back out of a speaker (was slicing the wooded speaker back with all my strength, knife slipped, came right down across my leg with all my strength). I didn't want to admit to my mom that I did something so careless so I grabbed a roll of clear packing tape, tucked the guts & goo back in (mostly fat), squeezed it all together, and used the tape to hold the wound together. I ended up with a stiff leg for a few days and a hell of a scar, but at least I didn't have to tell mom (until months later when she saw the scar)...

I've never had much problem with emergency room wait times, but then again, whenever I've gone it was for REAL emergencies (meaning that I was too stubborn to go until it was almost too late). Once was when I was having a thermonuclear athsma attack, once was when my liver shut down for some still unknown reason, and once was with a kidney stone. It's amazing the difference that skin colour can make when getting in in a hurry, and it has nothing to do with race. For my respective visits I was bright blue, dull yellow, and sickeningly green. They kinda take you seriously when you look like you're from outer space :hick:

...oh, and throwing up on the triage nurse's desk can help, too. With the kidney stone visit I was in so much pain I was nauseated and tried to tell the nurse that I was gonna be sick. She insisted it was in my mind and that I needed to sit down and fill out paperwork. The conversation went much like this (keep in mind this conversation was held with a certain sense of urgency on my part - the whole thing was over in shorter time than it will take you to read it):

ME: I'm gonna be sick
HER: Ok, well, we've just got to get your health card number...
ME: No, I really, really feel sick
HER: Oh, that's just the pain, you're not really sick. Sit down.
ME: Gimme a barf bucket, I'm gonna throw up
HER: We will in a moment, but just sit down and...
ME: No, you don't understand. I'm gonna be sick. NOW.
***HWAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRFFFFFFF***

...In the vein of those Mastercard commercials: The look on her face as she surveyed her freshly decorated-in-used-spaghetti workplace... priceless.
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Reply #8 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;174171


...In the vein of those Mastercard commercials: The look on her face as she surveyed her freshly decorated-in-used-spaghetti workplace... priceless.



:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

that'll teach em

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Reply #9 –
.  How far did it go into the calf?  I would still get it checked out and all, the risk of infection is going to be pretty high.
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Reply #10 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;174171
***HWAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRFFFFFFF***
Try vomiting up your own feces while in the ER. :(

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Reply #11 –
"Im up to speed on my shots and all so it really isn’t a big deal" are you a dog or a real man just kidding feel better. And yes I hate ER to.

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Reply #12 –
man i'm in the er so often i have my own coffe cup there
louie  :birdsmily:
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Reply #13 –
Quote from: JeremyB;174223
Try vomiting up your own feces while in the ER. :(

That sounds really, really unpleasant...:barf:
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1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #14 –
Had an old neighborhood friend get a puncture wound on a construction site a couple years ago. Be ed if he didn't get a flesh-eating bacterial infection. He died. Made me sick because he was one of the few good kids in the old neighborhood who didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk. One of those times in life when expressions like "the good die young" start running through your head. That sucked - I found out when I heard his name on the news :( Not trying to scare anyone, but this puncture wound shiznit can be serious - not that I haven't had my share of screwdrivers, razors etc. through my hands, never mind the time I sawed part of my finger tip off!
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