ER Trip
Written by Brian on June 6, 2009 – 9:13 am -So I stopped off in SLO on my way up to graduation, and had Grandma watch the kids while we went out with friends. They were walking to the park, and Grandma hopped on my nephew’s Razr scooter. She ate shit. She fell from standing on the sidewalk and stopped herself with her face. Lara got a frantic call from Grandpa for us to come home because someone was bleeding, and of course we were there in seconds.
My mom was pretty banged up. I superglued a little scratch on her head and had her put some ice on her face. There was a little crepitus when I moved her nose, and of course I was concerned about TBI even though she had no LOC, no HA, etc.
She proceeded to drink a margarita and got ready for bed.
I convinced her to go get her head scanned. I told her that it would help me sleep better.
ED Physician starts doing his H&P, my mom is being difficult because it’s 10:00PM and she just wants to go to bed. I decide to speed it up and give him a quick synopsis: “Mom fell from standing, landed on her face, did not break the fall with her arms, no LOC, complains of some neck pain…”
ED Physician: “Do you have neck pain?”
Mom: “Yeah”
ED Physician: “Don’t move your neck.”
Mom: [moves neck] “I just want to see if my nose is broken.”
ED Physician: [yelling] “DON’T MOVE YOUR NECK!”
Mom: [moves neck] “There’s nothing wrong with my neck.”
ED Physician: “I’m glad you have x-ray vision in your armamentarium.” [leaves room to get C-Collar and says under breath] “WOMEN!”
Her scans were negative, and we got out of there before midnight.
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