This sucks. My lung apparently collapsed Wednesday morning, I had trouble walking/breathing and had sharp pains in my back/chest/neck. Thought it would pass (and I had a huge meeting that afternoon, didn't want to go through the hassle of trying to get out of it only to find out it was something stupid). Still hurt after work, I could barely drive (every bump I went over exacerbated the pain), so off to ER I went.
They made me wait for ~20 minutes to go in, once in there I heard people say stuff like "what's he doing here, he's young and in shape, nothing's wrong with him, why does this say urgent." It'd be great if they were doing it to make me feel better, but they were serious and made me wait for 45 minutes for a doctor. Doctor came, asked me a few questions, took my EKG and sent me off for chest xrays.
Came back to room, doc saw me again ~45 minutes later and told me nothing was wrong with me and that I should just take ibuprofin, that he guessed it was just a problem with the sack around my heart being irritated. I asked why the pain was on the right side of my body instead of the left (heart issues = pain on left side), he said the pain can go either way...
They discharge me, 20 minutes later they call and tell me I have to come back immediately. They discharged me without waiting for my xray to come back, apparently one of my lungs had completely collapsed and I needed some type of emergency surgery.
So I go back to ER, paperwork still in hand (never made it to my car) and ~2 hours later the doctors come and do their thing. I'm still in ER, my sister comes and I tell her to keep the paperwork in her purse immediately (I had/have no plans to sue, but they screwed up bigtime, I wanted to hold onto the paperwork). Unfortunately, my awesome sister took all the paperwork out because she scribbled my boss's phone number on the back of one sheet and I had asked her to call my boss up to tell him I wouldn't be able to make it in to work. She never put it back in her purse, so all the freakin paperwork is now gone.
But yeah...apparently it was severe enough that if I had waited a little bit longer a chain reaction would've occured and I would've suffocated. And here I was ready to go home and wait a day to see if it got better...
I'm still really pissed that I don't have any of the paperwork anymore...I had no plans to sue (i wouldn't be here without them) but this was a major event in my life and it would've been great to have paperwork detailing everything, including their misdiagnosis.
They made me wait for ~20 minutes to go in, once in there I heard people say stuff like "what's he doing here, he's young and in shape, nothing's wrong with him, why does this say urgent." It'd be great if they were doing it to make me feel better, but they were serious and made me wait for 45 minutes for a doctor. Doctor came, asked me a few questions, took my EKG and sent me off for chest xrays.
Came back to room, doc saw me again ~45 minutes later and told me nothing was wrong with me and that I should just take ibuprofin, that he guessed it was just a problem with the sack around my heart being irritated. I asked why the pain was on the right side of my body instead of the left (heart issues = pain on left side), he said the pain can go either way...
They discharge me, 20 minutes later they call and tell me I have to come back immediately. They discharged me without waiting for my xray to come back, apparently one of my lungs had completely collapsed and I needed some type of emergency surgery.
So I go back to ER, paperwork still in hand (never made it to my car) and ~2 hours later the doctors come and do their thing. I'm still in ER, my sister comes and I tell her to keep the paperwork in her purse immediately (I had/have no plans to sue, but they screwed up bigtime, I wanted to hold onto the paperwork). Unfortunately, my awesome sister took all the paperwork out because she scribbled my boss's phone number on the back of one sheet and I had asked her to call my boss up to tell him I wouldn't be able to make it in to work. She never put it back in her purse, so all the freakin paperwork is now gone.
But yeah...apparently it was severe enough that if I had waited a little bit longer a chain reaction would've occured and I would've suffocated. And here I was ready to go home and wait a day to see if it got better...
I'm still really pissed that I don't have any of the paperwork anymore...I had no plans to sue (i wouldn't be here without them) but this was a major event in my life and it would've been great to have paperwork detailing everything, including their misdiagnosis.
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