ER

[annuin]

Unless you're bleeding profusely, or look sufficiently horrible, I suggest avoiding the ER. Especially with things that are going to get classed low priority on the triage ranklist.

Otherwise you too might spend a good 5 hours waiting, like we did. At least there's an Au Bon Pain in the hospital.

Upside, when we FINALLY got the x-ray, it at least verified that nothing was broken. They gave him a pair of crutches so he's more mobile with less pain, and a phone number for the Orthopedics department if it doesn't feel any better in a week to ten days, and then we were on our merry way.

Comments

[abigailvr.livejournal.com]

Ugh, ER waits suck. I'm glad to hear nothing was broken, though!

[sublimecontessa.livejournal.com]

Even if you're bleeding profusely and all that, you still have to wait at least 3 hours. I remember sitting in the waiting room with my chin split open. It was big enough to be a second mouth. They only took me in once I'd blacked out. -.-

[funeralnight.livejournal.com]

I hate hospitals here in the US because they seem to be too fucking lazy and annoying. They make you fill 20 bloody papers when you're dying before they even treat you, and than you wait hours and hours. It's bullshit.