- And I see a hand reach down to me.
I kind of reached up to it
and I kinda took that as if it was a let's go.
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- Hey guys, I'm Kelsey Rose
and today, I'm gonna tell you my ER horror story.
I was probably about 14 or 15,
it was Thanksgiving and we had just finished dinner,
everything was great.
All of a sudden, I felt this really sharp pain in my tummy
so I was like, in the fetal position, in the bathroom,
my mom comes in.
Back story, I hate the ER, I hate going to doctors,
so when I told her I thought I needed to go to the ER,
she knew something was wrong.
We finally go in and the doctor
starts doing the initial exam,
very bluntly, he's like,
"Uh, are you sexually active?"
And I'm like there with my mom, you know,
it's like very uncomfortable.
I'm not pregnant, 'cause I knew that's where
he was going with it.
He's like, "All right, I'm gonna do some blood work."
Goes off.
He comes back with a pregnancy test.
So I did it, mm, what does it say?
Not pregnant.
The doctor comes in again with another pregnancy test,
"We just wanna double check."
So, again, go pee on it, not pregnant,
boo, I told ya.
So, then he's like, "All right, well,
"we're gonna take you in to get an ultrasound
"because we think you might have an ectopic pregnancy."
And I'm like, "I'm not pregnant!"
I go in and I'm like laying down
and the woman just squirts the gel on me
and it's freezing cold,
like there's no, "Oh, hey, by the way,
"this might be uncomfortable."
So, they do the ultrasound,
oh, surprise, I don't have an ectopic pregnancy.
At this point, we're like five hours into this ordeal
from seeing the doctor, so like seven hours later, right?
Then the doctor is like off his shift
so a new doctor comes in
and he's like looking at the chart
and I'm like, "Yep, not pregnant."
And he's like, "All right, well,
"we're gonna do another ultrasound
"to see if your appendix is burst."
You mean like I've been sitting in this ER
with like an appendix that could just be like rupturing?
Then I go in for my second ultrasound
with the same really jolly nurse.
Guess what?
My appendix has not burst
but this doctor was not convinced.
So, they're like, "We're actually gonna keep you overnight."
And I'm like, "Dude, it's five in the morning,
"I've been here overnight."
The guy goes, "We're gonna see in the morning,
"if you're not feeling better,
"we're gonna do emergency surgery."
First, y'all said I was pregnant,
now you wanna like roll me into surgery
without confirming that my appendix is burst.
My mom quickly gets on the phone
and calls one of her really good friends
who's an ER doctor, and he's like, "T-O, no way."
In the morning, a new doctor comes in,
so it's been three doctors, and he's like,
"Okay, we're not doing emergency surgery, this is crazy."
And by that time, my mom's friend
who's an ER doctor shows up,
gives me a Bio-K, turns out, I'm all good to go
because all I had to do was (bleep).
Now I don't eat as much on Thanksgiving. (laughs)
And that is my ER horror story.
- Hey, I'm Rebecca and this is my ER horror story.
I was in college about two years ago
and when I got to English class,
I saw that my teacher had a movie projected on the screen.
I sit down and I start watching the film
but suddenly, I start to feel this weird feeling.
I think back to the sandwich that I'd just had before class,
am I gonna throw this up right now?
Like, it didn't taste bad when I originally ate it.
So, I go to the bathroom just to be sure.
I'm in the bathroom for a few seconds
and then suddenly, I lean over the toilet
and I start puking.
And I think, okay, I'm done with that, that was horrific,
let me just keep watching this film.
Just a few seconds later, I start feeling nauseous again.
Why?!
I felt like I got it all out.
I run to the bathroom but, at this point, I can't stop.
I keep puking over and over and over.
Could have a salmon sandwich actually caused this?
I pull out my phone and I call my mom
because she actually works at the ER nearby my house.
She comes to pick me up from school and takes me to the ER.
I still feel so nauseous
so I go into the bathroom of the waiting area
and start puking.
People start coming inside because I forgot to lock the door
and they see me, on my knees, holding the toilet
looking like death.
Finally, the nurse comes and takes me to the hospital bed
and when I look at the nurse,
he's the most sexy guy I've ever seen in my life
and I'm looking terrible, my face is really pale.
I'm so nervous at this great guy next to me,
he puts me in bed and he gives an IV
which is amazing because after about 10 minutes,
I'm feeling so much better.
My first reaction is to start flirting with him
because he's so cute
but I looked terrible and I felt terrible
so, as you can imagine, it didn't end in a date.
That really sucked
and I had so many people see me in the worst state
that I've ever been in my life
and that's my ER horror story.
- Hi, I'm Brian and this is my ER horror story.
So, I've been having this pain in my stomach
for almost a month and I had no idea what it was,
I thought it was just gas.
One day, I get up and I go into the kitchen
and I collapse to the floor
'cause the pain in my stomach
was just unbearable at this point.
My cousin, of course, thought I was joking
and she was like, "Oh my god, get up."
I was like, "I can't, can you call my mom
"and get her down here?"
My mom came down, she was telling me "Get up, get up."
And I couldn't.
So, she was like, "Okay, we're taking you to the hospital."
And once we got to the hospital,
they came and they got me in a wheelchair, put me in there
and they did the X-ray,
they noticed that there was nothing there.
They went and injected Toradol,
which I had no idea what it was.
So, as the doctor was putting it into my IV,
it just started feeling weird.
He's like, "Oh no, yeah, it's just a liquid painkiller."
I'm like, "No, no, this feels really weird."
And as he was finishing up, I started kind of
like slouching into my seat and my eyes closed
and I couldn't speak,
and then I started kind of shaking a little bit.
And so, my mom got up, ran out
and she started calling doctors.
Nobody was around.
My cousin got up and she started rolling me around
screaming, "Hello, somebody help me, somebody help me!"
I could hear everything but I didn't know
what was going on around me.
At this point, I started slouching even more
and everything just started getting kind of muffled.
And then they finally, after I don't even know how long,
they took me into another room, threw me on the bed
and they started slapping me
as if that was gonna wake me up,
as if I wasn't trying to wake up the whole time.
All of a sudden, I just felt like
a bunch of people around me,
and this is the weird part that always kind of gets me.
So, I have my eyes closed and I'm laying there
and I see these clouds and I see a hand reach down to me.
I kind of reached up to it
and I kinda took that as if it was a let's go.
The weirdest thing is I was okay with it
but then all of a sudden, right when I reached up,
it went foop, disappeared and I saw was just like
angels flying around me.
And then, I woke up in my house the next morning
and I was like...
My mom's like, "You don't know what happened?"
I'm like, "How did I get from the hospital to my bed?"
She's like, "Oh, they gave you Benadryl, you knocked out
"and we had to drag you up the stairs and take you home."
And I just found that I was allergic to Toradol that day,
which is a liquid Advil.
So, I told her about that whole hand and the angels thing
and she told me that she was in the corner
of the doctor's room and she was praying
for angels to come and save me and do all this fun stuff
to get me out of what was going on.
So, we never ended up figuring out what happened
or why the pain was there.
I never felt the pain again.
I guess it kinda worked out?
And that's my ER horror story.
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