Re: anyone know abt ribs/lung pain?

Dear Lynn,

I don't mean to get on your case, especially if someone in an unread portion of the thread has already asked this, but it's worth repeating : what the hell are you doing going to the ER for a pain you have had for months? And seeing them for an 8 or 9 pain? I don't get it one tiny bit. Suppose all the doctors were tied up removing a bunion from somebody's foot when you came in from being electrocuted. Nobody is giving you CPR cause they're busy babysitting some drunk who broke his ankle from falling off his bar stool. Nobody's around to zap you with the defibrillator because they're tied up removing a cast from the arm of a kid that went mosh pit diving (I think they still call it that) and nobody wanted to catch him. The ER docs finally get through all the normal bullshit that should have been handled in a doctor's office visit and it's your turn, just in time to close your eyes and pull up the sheet. They slap a toe tag on you and wheel you down to the morgue, where after lunch the slice you open from crotch to shoulder, pulling out organs as they go. The medical examiner fills out his report, listing the cause of death as electrocution, but we know the real cause of death...stupidity. Stupidity, tying up EMERGENCY response personnel, with stupid shit that belongs in a doctors office or a bathroom with a good friend. I'm not addressing your words quite directly, I am hoping you will get the point, but I'll be more direct yet if it will help - a problem that lasts a couple days belongs in your doctors office. If you have the time to wait and see, it's not an emergency, make an appointment with your doctor. There is usually very little doubt involved when it is an emergency and you certainly can't walk 3 block if you need an ER.
Stop wasting the resources of the Emergency Department with trivial bullshit. If it's not life or death, call your doctor. I have a lot of friends who are linemen, I know a lot about being electrocuted and doing resuscitation in the field, and I would be mightily pissed if one of my guys died because you were having a zit on your ass examined.
It's called an EMERGENCY ROOM for a reason. It's not an all night drug store or clinic, though I'd bet your yellow pages has a listing of one of each, within reach of that van of yours. It's just not enough of an emergency to drive that long or that far, besides, by the time you went all that way you could see your doctor.

Very disappointed in you, Lynn. I thought you were better people than this.--og










"ensoul" <ensoul98@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:cd54b5ee-4bd3-4544-a86a-b64df99d6848@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
don't wanna calll my daughter unless its a truee emergenct and the ER
won't answer your Q'...for around a week give or take some been
haviving what starts as lower rib pain, feels like endometriosis &
menstual pain plus like being stabbed btwn each rib up & down
constanlely (sp) (pain on both sides) I hit menopause 2 yrs ago with
few probs

now for 3 -4 months on & off (pain gets worse at night and wakens me
at time) the pain starts at bottom rib but I touch even press down
very hard on ribs until I get to the for lack of better word get to
the meaty part press on that area even slightly WHAM as the ask on
scale of 1 - 10 it's a 8 or 9

I can't see calling my daughter she'll have a fit if we go to the ER
and nothing is wrong...her hrs change from day to day dont if it's
ear;y tommorrow could walk to hosp it's 3 blocks away no I couldn't
not tonight anyway

can call the on call dr service and see what they say

.

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