Why do you always take your child the the ER? And why must you post it on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

What's weird is that the times I have been to the ER I have not exactly been feeling like posting on facebook! I did take a picture of my kid looking extremely pissed off with EEG electrodes on his head so my DH (who was home sleeping) could share in the fun.

[Anonymous]

I hate it when people use the ER in this way. Such a waste of resources.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who uses the ER over regular doctors or urgent care because her insurance is through her husband, who is a fed, and she wants the higher bills to get her deductible each year. Once she hits that deductible, everything is paid for. It's how she's gotten two elective surgeries in the past three years. Elective as in she didn't really need it, but she found a doc who would do it, not elective as in plastic surgery.

Seems like every other week she's doing a check-in and obligatory picture post of her daughter's hospital wristband. The last 4 ER trips on her timeline took place from 9/21 to now... DD slid down the stairs and her butt hurts, DD stabbed herself with her mechanical pencil and is pretty sure there's lead stuck in her, DD shut her finger in her locker, and DD fell playing basketball and may need stitches (spoiler alert - she just got steri-strips because it was a goddamn skinned knee!).

I'm having lunch with this friend next week and I can't wait to find out what surgery she's gearing up for this year. Usually she's posting for prayers and "People who have had ____ done, talk to me about recovery" messages around this time of year.

[Anonymous]

doodlebug wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This stuff blows my mind. I have literally been to the ER twice in my 50+ years of life. Once due to an allergic reaction - I probably didn't even NEED to go, but I didn't want to risk it, and another time because I thought one of my children had appendicitis and it was 3:30am. It's called an EMERGENCY room. It seems as if people treat it like it's a walk-in doctor's office/clinic. I do NOT understand it.

I agree. I was there recently when my husband was experiencing symptoms of a heart attack. The majority of people in there were there for garden-variety ailments. This was on a weekday morning--not even a weekend.

How do you know what the majority of people were there for? Did you take a poll? Last time I went to the ER it was 12:30 am and I had a nasty cut from work. I bled so much I never even saw the waiting room, was escorted directly inside. (Once I signed all the obligatory paper work with my hemorrhaging hand that is.) Totally get you OP. I have a friend or two like this as well. The really fun one will post check ins from the hospital, give no reason for the visit, get all the obligatory hope all is well notes (she's pregnant so everyone hopes the baby is OK) and then she'll come back later and post that she was there for a class or something like that.

You were there because you had a real emergency and you were taken immediately because you had a real emergency. If you had shown up with the sniffles or plantars wart...not an emergency.

[Anonymous]

You would think an ER nurse would know better. Her coworkers probably hate her. I don't think I've seen any of my coworkers bring their family members in for stupid things. In fact, most ER nurses only take their kids to the ER when their kid is literally dying.

[Anonymous]

My daughter has asthma, so for a couple of years we visited the ER (at advice of primary care doctor) when the medicine we could use at home wasn't working to stop an asthma attack.

I think my "favorite" memory is of me holding my daughter in the triage room so she could get a nebulizer treatment (with a hospital-only dosage of medicine in it) because the ER was full - watching a whole family come in explaining that their child (maybe 7 years old?) says his "wrist hurts". Kid is NOT crying, just looks like he doesn't want to be there. Whole group is staring at me and my daughter - we couldn't go anywhere to give them privacy because the nebulizer in an ER works on an oxygen line, and she was asleep from fighting the asthma attack. Luckily a room opened up in back and we could get a real spot at that point.

I kept wondering if the ER was previously really full of people that need to be there or just full of kids whose wrists hurt.

What I hate are the posts with pictures of kids who are CLEARLY in pain, saying "keep us in your thoughts, _____ may have broken their ____." Get the heck off facebook, your kid needs you!

[Anonymous]

Hospitals should have a CVS minute clinic type of thing where the non-emergency cases can all be sent to wait in line behind each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You would think an ER nurse would know better. Her coworkers probably hate her. I don't think I've seen any of my coworkers bring their family members in for stupid things. In fact, most ER nurses only take their kids to the ER when their kid is literally dying.

I agree. I know people abuse ER services, but an ER nurse? Something about this thread doesn't add up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who uses the ER over regular doctors or urgent care because her insurance is through her husband, who is a fed, and she wants the higher bills to get her deductible each year. Once she hits that deductible, everything is paid for. It's how she's gotten two elective surgeries in the past three years. Elective as in she didn't really need it, but she found a doc who would do it, not elective as in plastic surgery.

Seems like every other week she's doing a check-in and obligatory picture post of her daughter's hospital wristband. The last 4 ER trips on her timeline took place from 9/21 to now... DD slid down the stairs and her butt hurts, DD stabbed herself with her mechanical pencil and is pretty sure there's lead stuck in her, DD shut her finger in her locker, and DD fell playing basketball and may need stitches (spoiler alert - she just got steri-strips because it was a goddamn skinned knee!).

I'm having lunch with this friend next week and I can't wait to find out what surgery she's gearing up for this year. Usually she's posting for prayers and "People who have had ____ done, talk to me about recovery" messages around this time of year.

It always amazes me how self centered people like this have any friends at all.

[Anonymous]

Let's not forget this person also posts a photo of an IV but gives no other details.

[Anonymous]

Or the people that check in at the ER and don't say anything about the check in and your are left wondering if they are dying.

[Anonymous]

This sounds like Munchausen by proxy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This sounds like Munchausen by proxy.

You don't understand what Munchausen by proxy is.

[Anonymous]

Its called being an attention hound!!

or Starved for attention!

Or desperately needy and pathetic.

Pick one, all apply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who uses the ER over regular doctors or urgent care because her insurance is through her husband, who is a fed, and she wants the higher bills to get her deductible each year. Once she hits that deductible, everything is paid for. It's how she's gotten two elective surgeries in the past three years. Elective as in she didn't really need it, but she found a doc who would do it, not elective as in plastic surgery.

Seems like every other week she's doing a check-in and obligatory picture post of her daughter's hospital wristband. The last 4 ER trips on her timeline took place from 9/21 to now... DD slid down the stairs and her butt hurts, DD stabbed herself with her mechanical pencil and is pretty sure there's lead stuck in her, DD shut her finger in her locker, and DD fell playing basketball and may need stitches (spoiler alert - she just got steri-strips because it was a goddamn skinned knee!).

I'm having lunch with this friend next week and I can't wait to find out what surgery she's gearing up for this year. Usually she's posting for prayers and "People who have had ____ done, talk to me about recovery" messages around this time of year.

It always amazes me how self centered people like this have any friends at all.

OMG, Perfect representation of what sucks about Social Media!