BurningYggdrassil

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BurningYggdrassil
@BurningYggdrassil

So it wasn't a fucked tendon...

...But a broken scaphoid. Yes, kiddos, a broken scaphoid they should have noticed in March when I went to the ER. It has healed in the wrong angle, of course and its not going to get better, but the opposite with time.
So now the doctors are threatening me with surgery and a minimum of eight (yes 8) weeks with my hand in plaster.
My hands are crucial to me as I am crucial to my job.
So instead of "oh just go home and relax and take some painkillers and you'll be fine" they should have listened to me.

The ER I went to has a real bad reputation and it wont get better from the looks of it =D

Just a little rant =)

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DrMel
@DrMel

Sorry to hear that it happened that way. But eventually we all need to take time from work for unexpected reasons like this. I'm as guilty as anyone for not building in a plan for that.

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BurningYggdrassil
@BurningYggdrassil

The problem is it could have been healed properly ages ago, but those dickweeds at the ER fucked up again. They truly have a very bad reputation and it's getting obvious why! Some damn fine girls working there though 😇

Look! I tend to look at the positives in most cases and I do here too, really. I wont be able to work or game so what else can I do for at least eight weeks?
Study Japanese of course. Something I barely have time to anyway =D And be way better when I go back next year.
Oh and I'm right handed and it's my left that's fucked so I can still paint too.
I'll be fine, never bored etc.
And my boss wants us to go to work even if we're dead, so I get a lulz there.

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Lord-Spencer
@Lord-Spencer

I understand that ER work is very stressful, but that's no excuse for the amount of mistakes that routinely happen across the world.

My mother nearly died due to a Florida misdiagnosis and lack of blood work after an ER visit. Two days later, she fainted and went to the ER with record breaking Calcium in her blood. Doctor said that the highest he ever saw, that she was lucky to be alive, and that it was irresponsible for her to have been let off two days earlier.

My sister went to the ER several times across two months with back pain. She was treated as a hysterical college kid when nothing was found in an X-Ray, and she wasn't cleared for an MRI when she asked for it. After two months of useless physical therapy and mild pain medication, she literally crawled to the ER when a visiting doctor cleared her for an MRI. It turned out TWO of her spinal discs herniated and seeped into the sciatica nerve (which could have paralyzed one of her legs). The doctor ordered an IMMEDIATE surgery right then and there. Now she has two cages where the discs should have been. Those could have been saved if proper checks were made earlier.

Hope you get better soon.

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BurningYggdrassil
@BurningYggdrassil

Sorry for the late reply, this needed a bit more time, but what the flying fuck?
How many people have to suffer and even die because of people who can't do their job?
It's like, let's say, working in a library where a book can get lost if you forget to register it.

Good thing it turned out for the better in the end for both of them. But sheesh.

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