You bring him back from the dead and all he can do is bitch about something else.
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(I’d have returned him to his previous state, but that’s just me … )
When I was still doing radiology billing, I got to read some reports of a dumbass who’d come to Minnesota on vacation. According to her medical history, she’d broken her ankle a few weeks before and had had it surgically repaired. She was walking on it at the Mall of America when she noticed that it hurt like hell and was not looking right. She went to the ER, where she found out that all that walking caused some of the screws in her ankle to shear, essentially re-breaking her ankle. The ER staff did what it could to patch her up enough that she could go home. I’m just wondering what kind of genius this woman had to be to decide that two weeks after orthopedic surgery would be a great time to go on a shopping trip.
People will be people. I tend to recall more my own shortcomings, such as the time time I failed to adequately warn the woman with allergic response to carpet glue about the efficacy of SQ epi. The words “your heart is going to feel like it’s coming out of your chest” weren’t in my standard spiel at the time.
I’d take that bet. I’ve given people both types of headaches, and had both types myself, and epi is worse. Worse even than IV or intracoronary nitro.
Add one not-quite-on-topic-but-definitely-not-off-topic rant: People who refuse to believe children about their own allergies, and attempt to feed them something they’re allergic to, “because it’s good for you”!
Man, thats got to suck having allergies like that. You would think though that people would pay attention to something that causes discomfort like death
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This kind of thread is what keeps me coming back for more here.
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My kid has severe allergies, and I won’t even let her eat shellfish (which she’s never had) just in case. I don’t think she’s stupid enough to ever eat something on purpose–for one thing the prompt vomiting is a pretty good deterrent. (We carry an EpiPen everywhere but have never had to use it, thank goodness).
My FIL has pulled the refusal to go to the hospital after a stroke. He woke up with his left side paralyzed, but after a little while it was just his face, so he decided it was Bell’s palsy and didn’t bother to see a doctor at all. He didn’t tell any of his kids for 3 weeks. :rolleyes:
I love these types of threads because it always makes me feel better about myself, similar to the feeling I get if I’m forced to watch Jerry Springer.
OMG, I had anaphylaxis from penicillin once before and I would NEVER voluntarily repeat the experience!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
My RA in college was allergic to the sun.
My cousin’s 3yo son is allergic to friggin’ EVERYTHING, the poor little mutant. If they’re ever at any large gathering, she hangs a sign around his neck that says in BIG letters, “DO NOT FEED ME! I AM HIGHLY ALLERGIC TO EVERYTHING! (Really, I could die. Please don’t feed me.)”
I had anaphylaxis as a child after getting some amoxicillin for an ear infection- wheeze, hives, all that.
Many of the hospitals I’ve worked in have a protocol that the first dose of IV antibiotics is given by a doctor (2nd and subsequent doses are given by nurses).
Often there is no other doc available, so I’ve been in the position of drawing up and giving a drug I know I’m highly allergic to, just in case the patient might be as well. I am super cautious and wear gloves and a mask, but still, it is pretty silly (and I’ve had nurses freak out enough to stand beside me with epi-pens).
I also used to re-constitute oral penicillin solutions for the kids in the Emergency department- but I stopped doing that after I spilt a little on my wrist and I immediately came up in hives and then all the skin peeled off. I was smart enough to take anti-histamines so thankfully it didn’t get any worse than that, but it did confirm that I’m still highly allergic.
But if I one day accidentally stab myself while giving IV penicillin and go into anaphylaxis I will probably be one of those “can you believe she was dumb enough to give that patient that drug knowing she was allergic” stories.
Those styles of administration are way beyond my scope of practice.
Did she have XP? I have a friend who has that. He actually has some sort of NASA space suit thingie for when he has to be outdoors in the daytime.
What difference would it make what operating system her computer uses? :ducks:
Naw, when I was typing that, I thought, “I better provide a link, or they’ll think I’m talking about experience points.”
I’m highly allergic to sunflower seeds, but not the oil (thank Og). I didn’t know this until I was around 30- never ate sunflower seeds as a kid. Carried an Epi for years but it is easy to avoid sunflower seeds. Three years ago I was in the hospital and needed a blood transfusion. Despite the Benadryl, I developed anaphylaxis. To BLOOD? All I can figure is the donor ate sunflower seeds before donating.
That’s interesting.
Recently the grown daughter of one of the housemates decided to pound three Long Island iced teas, but didn’t tell anyone. She apparently doesn’t drink, mostly. I suspect this was combined with some pill, and she couldn’t be woken on the back porch with shaking, yelling, slapping, or pinching. The EMTs from from the firehouse intubated her and she came back quickly when she got some decent oxygen in her, but then she started fighting.
They told her she was leaving with them or with a sheriff’s deputy, but they also seemed to think this was a court appointed halfway house (I guess there’s one on the block, and when they saw grown men in the same house, they made a leap.)
She was strapped to a gurney greatly against her wishes. Were they right to do that? Did the halfway house idea make a difference?
Personally, I’d rather be dead than allergic to shrimp, scallops, escargot or mussels.