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So I'm sitting in the ER waiting room with the 3yo after he split his forehead open on his headboard. Got a nice gouge in his left eyebrow. Judging by the number of folks in this room with us, we should be here for awhile.

What do now?

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12 minutes ago, wacky1980 said:

So I'm sitting in the ER waiting room with the 3yo after he split his forehead open on his headboard. Got a nice gouge in his left eyebrow. Judging by the number of folks in this room with us, we should be here for awhile.

What do now?

Feign a heart attack

 

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2 minutes ago, wacky1980 said:

This is actually the longest ER wait I've sat thru for one of the boys. But the other visits were more urgent, so meh. 

Ya for stuff deemed non-urgent I've always heard from people that it takes hours, granted thats in bigger cities than where u are.

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1 minute ago, NaBrainman said:

Ya for stuff deemed non-urgent I've always heard from people that it takes hours, granted thats in bigger cities than where u are.

Yeah the town this hospital's in is only like 50k pop. Waiting room is clearing out a bit now. Might get to head up soon.

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3 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

You sound jealous.

I am jealous of the people who can go to the ER when they're hurt and only have to pay $50 because they can afford to pay hundreds of dollars a month for medical insurance, you're absolutely right.

4 minutes ago, wacky1980 said:

Copay, maybe $50

Lucky you didnt have to rush him to an out of network ER

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3 minutes ago, NaBrainman said:

I am jealous of the people who can go to the ER when they're hurt and only have to pay $50 because they can afford to pay hundreds of dollars a month for medical insurance, you're absolutely right.

Lucky you didnt have to rush him to an out of network ER

It's state insurance. Not Medicaid, but discounted based on income.

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1 hour ago, wacky1980 said:

Copay, maybe $50. Gonna leave a real nice scar though. Cut right through his eyebrow and about as deep as could be.

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 Hole in my cheek was bigger, scar isn't shit.  Plus people dig scars, just tell him to tell people he got in a fist fight with a Bear in the wild and won.

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With my son's allergies, we wind up in hospitals a lot. The ER is never that fun but if we go to children's hospital, they have lots more things for kids to do while you do your inevitable wait and a free food bar for parents and other kids. Nice facility and since it's a given that children will be accompanied by parents, the rooms have decent side beds...not just tiny hard couches. 

 

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2 hours ago, NaBrainman said:

I am jealous of the people who can go to the ER when they're hurt and only have to pay $50 because they can afford to pay hundreds of dollars a month for medical insurance, you're absolutely right.

Lucky you didnt have to rush him to an out of network ER

But you could too if you weren't lazy. I kinda get some people being upset that their college degrees havent worked out for them.....but what have you done beside professional keyboard warrioring for your young life.

Even guys with no skills manage to make 40k driving trucks and shit....Hell, i assume you can even get welfare....but not even sure if you've put forth the effort to do that.  

But at the end of the day, im not interested in the why.

 

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6 hours ago, wacky1980 said:

Finally got a bed. They applied a lidocaine gel to numb it. Gonna be another 30 minutes before they can clean and fix. The boy is handling it pretty well so far.

Thats what they did to mine when he decided to dive off the fucking bed and into the humidifier. The gash wasn't that deep though. It was like 3 in the  morning but amazingly Lebonheur was a ghost town. We didn't get out of there until 6am. =_= 

He was super chill though. He let the nurses stitch him up and he was just laying there getting his baby hands massaged. 

 

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6 hours ago, wacky1980 said:

Copay, maybe $50. Gonna leave a real nice scar though. Cut right through his eyebrow and about as deep as could be.

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That's exactly where my older one did exactly the same thing when she was three. Scar's visible, but not grossly disfiguring or anything (of course, this is after 30 years...oof.) As long as they kept the eyebrow lined up, it'll just be a cool scar.

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2 hours ago, mthor said:

That's exactly where my older one did exactly the same thing when she was three. Scar's visible, but not grossly disfiguring or anything (of course, this is after 30 years...oof.) As long as they kept the eyebrow lined up, it'll just be a cool scar.

a cool scar is probably how this will end up. he's already got a matching scar on the other eyebrow from doing the exact same thing about a year ago, but it wasn't deep enough to take him in for stitches. might be time to look for a softer headboard...

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9 minutes ago, GreatBallsOfJizz said:

Why do so many kids bust open their eye? When I was 6 or 7 I was running through the house and my brother tripped me, I busted open my eye on the coffee table. Thought it was funny wacky's kid hit the same spot, now two others? Stupid kids.

Not stupid, just kids. Avoiding walls and furniture aren't their highest priorities.

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Yikes! Hope the kiddo is feeling better!

1 hour ago, GreatBallsOfJizz said:

Why do so many kids bust open their eye? When I was 6 or 7 I was running through the house and my brother tripped me, I busted open my eye on the coffee table. Thought it was funny wacky's kid hit the same spot, now two others? Stupid kids.

When we were kids, my sister and I were playing checkers and she got mad that I was beating her, so she picked the board up and threw it at me. The corner ended up catching me right above my eye/right under my eyebrow. Didn’t need stitches, but did leave a nice little scar. Not super visible now, though, 20+ years later...

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34 minutes ago, renjifan said:

Yikes! Hope the kiddo is feeling better!

When we were kids, my sister and I were playing checkers and she got mad that I was beating her, so she picked the board up and threw it at me. The corner ended up catching me right above my eye/right under my eyebrow. Didn’t need stitches, but did leave a nice little scar. Not super visible now, though, 20+ years later...

She sounds psycho

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this child...

no new injuries, but now he's running a fever. i'm pretty sure it's not from infection; the wound is actually looking really good at this point and there's no other signs of anything like that. probably just a viral thing, one of many going around right now. doctors want us to bring him back in if he's not over it soon, because they think it could be related to the injury. but they're just being overly cautious. #pleasedontbesepsis

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