rottydaddy
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Neat... hospital war stories!
I'll spare you some of my mother's classics (she was a LPN), but speaking of anesthetic, last time I was in the ER (nicked the tip of my thumb on a table saw at work- about 1/4" deep), the very young, nervous intern gave me a stab directly into the wound with a huge hypo... that hurt, let me tell you. I've had many shots, inluding Novocaine to the roof of the mouth for oral surgery, but.... wow. That really hurt.
He went away for a few minutes; the thumb seemed pretty numb... until he started stitching. I guess the drug had been carried away or something; it was NOT numb.No, sir.
I was ready to tough it out; it hurt less than the hypo...all I needed to do, I figured, was control my instinct to jump up or kick him, and I could stand eight or ten stitches.
But he got flustered and sent for his supervising doc, who arrived almost an hour later, grumbled about how "we usually only do this for women and kids" and gave me a shot in the base of the thumb, which made it dead as a doornail in a few minutes. Again, I told the doc that I was willing to hang tough if he'd just stitch it up quickly, but they both seemed eager to torture and humiliate me.
I'd only gone to the ER so I could get back to work sooner with stitches, but I wish I'd done what my mother once did when I gashed my hand : clean thoroughly, bandage well, and change the dressing regularly. Got a nasty little scar from that one, but it healed well and quickly enough.
I'll spare you some of my mother's classics (she was a LPN), but speaking of anesthetic, last time I was in the ER (nicked the tip of my thumb on a table saw at work- about 1/4" deep), the very young, nervous intern gave me a stab directly into the wound with a huge hypo... that hurt, let me tell you. I've had many shots, inluding Novocaine to the roof of the mouth for oral surgery, but.... wow. That really hurt.
He went away for a few minutes; the thumb seemed pretty numb... until he started stitching. I guess the drug had been carried away or something; it was NOT numb.No, sir.
I was ready to tough it out; it hurt less than the hypo...all I needed to do, I figured, was control my instinct to jump up or kick him, and I could stand eight or ten stitches.
But he got flustered and sent for his supervising doc, who arrived almost an hour later, grumbled about how "we usually only do this for women and kids" and gave me a shot in the base of the thumb, which made it dead as a doornail in a few minutes. Again, I told the doc that I was willing to hang tough if he'd just stitch it up quickly, but they both seemed eager to torture and humiliate me.
I'd only gone to the ER so I could get back to work sooner with stitches, but I wish I'd done what my mother once did when I gashed my hand : clean thoroughly, bandage well, and change the dressing regularly. Got a nasty little scar from that one, but it healed well and quickly enough.
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