Hi Steve I hope you see this comment I know you always do funny stories about people coming into the ER....Well I'm going to turn the tables and tell you a ridiculous story about me as a patient going to the ER via ambulance! So I have a history of recent stress in the last five or so years and had had some ulcers that had been taken care of laparoscopically. I hadn't had any for almost the whole year last year, so I decided that when I started feeling pretty bad stomach pains at home that it was just an ulcer and it would take some also medicine and wait it out. I live in Toronto Ontario Canada by the way so if I chose to go to the ER I'd probably be waiting like 6 hours to see a doctor snd I felt more comfortable at home. But throughout the day the pain got increasingly worse to the point where lying down was not an option sitting wasn't an option my dad finally said screw this and called 911. For some reason are paramedics are too lazy to bring the bed from their ambulance into the house even though I lived in A GROUND LEVEL Bungalow so there was no stairs for them to drag me up and down they just come in assess you I said I was probably ulcers and they drag you outside under their arms. I was bent over and in extreme pain but as soon as they lay me down on the stretcher and I'm in a horizontal position I cease to be able to speak and just admitted a constant groan like I couldn't talk I didn't know at the time what was going on while I'm in the ambulance and they're driving me to the hospital no lights blaring just driving me nicely, like there's all the Time in the World to get there! The woman who's attending to me actually asked me if I thought it could be Period Cramps!!! I was lucid enough even though my ears were blanking out noise around me as I just felt this extreme pain in my abdomen and sickness that I still was able to pull through that fog and look at her with daggers like I wanted to murder her and I said are you f****** kidding me right now??? anyways when they pulled up there was tons of people lined up I guess they were smart enough to figure out something was really wrong threw me in a wheelchair and pulled me back threw me in a room pluged me up to some liquids. Now when I was sitting in the chair being reeled into the room I wasn't making that noise as much, but as soon as they put me on the bed I started again with this horrible pain and I said it's really painful for me to lie down something bad is going on and I was almost at this point I hadn't seen a doctor so I couldn't get any pain medicine luckily they put me in a room that had a closed door not in a room that's just separated by sheets like the other people in the ER everybody was very calm in there there was no major emergencies happening with the exception of me which they were ignoring one b**** ass ER nurse actually had the balls to come into my room and say "can you quiet it down there are people in the ER sicker than you right now and you're making a lot of noise"! I'm sorry I can't control what's coming out of my mouth right now because I'm literally dying in front of their eyes (as you'll find out later) and what am I in the library???? is this not the f****** Hospital anyways several hours go by I'm hooked up to an IV they finally get a porter to push me to the MRI as soon as I get on the bed again lying horizontal for the MRI I start making the noise the technician gets very concerned on his face right away does the MRI and literally within 3 minutes there was about 12 people in the MRI room yelling and all kinds of chaos going on nobody telling me what's happening they throw me back on a bed start sticking IVs all over me a doctor who have never seen before and never spoken to comes up to me with like a 40 page document holding the last page above my head and said sign here! I said what am I signing? he's like we need to do emergency surgery. I said what for what? he said you have a perforated stomach and bowel and the Bile from your stomach is inside your entire abdomen and your organs are going into septic shock and starting to fail! I said can I call my dad? they said no we'll call him after! I said can I someone read to me when I'm signing he's like no please just sign this so I scribbled something I still don't know to this day what f****** document it was probably saying although we made you wait for hours and hours and you were slowly dying on her table! (and I found out later that the hole was in the top of my stomach so that's why it hurts so much when I was lying flat because the Bile was flowing freely out of the top of my stomach so when I sat up it was less painful and screaming because it was still coming out but not as fast) so I'm sure the document said it's not our fault! so I went into emergency surgery they had to take pieces of My Flesh from the interior part of my body that wasn't destroyed patch up the hole in my stomach do all kinds of other crazy things I still don't know what to this day I woke up in the hospital was there for 3 weeks I had tubes coming out of my nose draining bags and bags for the first 3 days of this green bile out of my stomach it was horrendous and bags attached to my stomach removing the blood from my abdomen they did not bed wash me once in tye 3 wks I was there once I was unplugged from the Bile machine collector and the blood collector machine after 4 or 5 days and had a blood transplant, they basically expected me to get up and get to the bathroom by myself which was horrendously painful even to lift myself into a seated position because I had multiple surgery scars all over my stomach where they went in so I had to pee like every 2 hours and I would press the nurses button and nobody would come for 15 minutes so I tried to raise myself out of bed which was horribly painful I had different people coming in and out from surgeries into my room they all had minor stuff and recovered after a couple days and left. I was kind of in there for a long time on this ICU Surgery recovery floor so I had like five different roommates over that time so I basically had to like pee into a diaper and wait for someone to come and drag it off me and slap some water on me and then put a new one on really painfully I would be sleeping and I would wake up to someone pricking my arm to take blood like "yo can you wake me up first so I don't wake up to like you standing above me like a gargoyle trying to stick needles into my arm what the f***"? as a result I've had horrible complications this was over a year and a half ago that I've had complications from vomiting up green bile still affecting my throat, teeth, nasal cavity etc.I am also not able to eat properly! At the hospital, they couldn't even put a stint in my arm to give me nutrition because they couldn't find a vein they literally came in with an x-ray machine to find a vein in my arm lower and upper arm in couldn't catch a vein cuz I was so dehydrated and hadn't eaten and had drank anything yet I lost 35 lbs and I was already very slim so I look like a skeleton when I was finally able to stumble out of the hospital I've had loads of complications and Specialists since and they keep just bouncing me back and forth between Specialists nobody willing to take the blame and no one will be willing to take on trying to repair all the issues that transpired after their sloppy s*** work so yeah that was my last experience in the ER and I've had issues since then and I wait and make an appointment with the specialist and get someone to basically carry me to their office Where They usually beg me to go to the hospital and I'm like I'm not going to the hospital man these are the people that almost killed me! the first thing I said I forgot to mention when I saw them going crazy trying to get me to sign the paper, I asked him" is this a very painful situation" he's like "yeah it's very painful what's happening right now you've got stomach bile and acid burning all your organs inside your abdomen and it's extraordinarily painful" and I said can you do me a favor and tell that nurse in the ER that told me to shut up when I was moaning uncontrollably in pain that I'm having an emergency surgery and according to you if I had waited another 2 hours I'd be dead??? he said he would talk to her but I never heard anything about it since so it's not always idiots that end up in the ER sometimes there's just plain idiots treating people innocent people in the ER I could have died on their watch easily! So I hope you tell some of those stories about stupid Er and paramedics who surmised that me going into septic shock and dying in her ambulance was as a result of menstruation cramps! Dude if I didn't laugh at their stupidity I'd be crying all day long!!!!
My grandfather is a farmer. He got ran over by his GIANT TRACTOR and was still able to WALK back to his wife where she called 911!!! I still cant beleive hes still alive! He had a BUNCH of injuries including a collapsed lung, crushed ribs and several other broken bones, etc.! Farmers ARE tough!
Lol So true. The oldest man in town tilled his fields, got off his tractor & went down. He ended up being "ok" but never went out again. Died around the time his wife did. 88
@@deserabailey8500 about 13 years ago, a buddy of mine had been drinking...an admittedly unhealthy amount of those high gravity alcohol/energy drinks...we were out and got separated and I woke up in a hospital. It took the cops 4 days (which I spent 2 of unconscious) to find me because I didn't take an ambulance. Turns out, the guy who hit me with his car (in all fairness, he was looking for me, too) had called them to tell them he thought he hit something because he was on his way home and all his external lights died...poor guy was a wreck. It turns out, I walked 4 miles on a broken hip, with a severe concussion and a dislocated shoulder... according to all of the doctors, if I had been sober, I would have died (admittedly, I took the wrong information from that at the time). I say all this to say, if you ever find yourself drunk and lost walking down a back country road with no lights and your phone has a charge, step off the road and call 9-1-1 (or whatever your local Emergency Services number is. They can find you, don't be a hero.
If a farmer goes in to the doc for help (or calls 911 for an ambulance), its SO MUCH WORSE than you know. Source, I have lived in a rural area my whole life and seen/heard some real "fun" stories.
I work in agriculture/animal welfare, and I didn't go to the hospital until 4 days after I broke my back so badly that my T1 vertebra had dissolved into non-existence. I was pretty sure I had just pulled a muscle and decided to give it some time, but the darn thing just kept getting worse, so I gave up when I stopped being able to move and had my partner drive me in. 😂
Same with native Americans.. my spouse was 911 for 20 years.. gets a call.. a native calmy says I've been stabbed.. no panic at all. She had the the emt's go full code stat.. he did live
It’s all bad!! Every time!! Especially the tractors. I was in the ER waiting room once in not too bad anaphylaxis. I had to try to explain to the guy who’s fingers just popped off that “lady’s first” doesn’t count when your trying to reattach dead tissue and that I would be fine until his hand had been rebuilt because I already used my Epi-Pen.
I’m a retired Surgical Trauma scrub nurse from an inner city hospital. They stories we heard helped us to not lose our minds from what we did for 12+ hrs a day. Our dark humor kept us able to take care of the worst of the worst traumas.
My stepdad is a farmer. He lost three fingers in a chain. He wrapped his hand up, walked a few hundred yards to the house, filled up a bucket with ice, went and got his fingers and drove HIMSELF to the ER. Farmers are indeed built tough.
We had a pt come in complaining he had a bug 🐛 in his ear. The way he was twitching and acting the staff all thought he was twe@king. So to address the problem Doc looks in pt ear. Dr leapt 3ft back. Poor guy had a 3/4in beetle 🪲 in his ear. We were all itching our ears the rest of the night after seeing it. 😲
Hey Steve, great vid about Edmonton. I can't tell you some of the stories I heard about the ER's in Calgary but I can tell you that once a bear decided to walk through the automatic doors to Emergency at the Rockyview Hospital. I suspect that many people felt they didn't really need to be there after all.
Speaking of crazies on meth, I was a patient in the ER and EMS brought in a man who had cut off his penis because “It was too big and kept hitting his leg when he walked.” This guy was covered in blood, laughing and flirting with all of the nurses. Every single provider on that floor (and a few who came down from other floors) walked by to take a look. His dismembered member was not with him when he arrived. They had been unable to locate it. (And, even if they had, they wouldn’t have been able to reattach it.) His tone and demeanor changed a few hours later when the drugs started to wear off and he realized what had happened. I am pretty sure that people could hear him screaming several floors up.
My grandfather was trying to patch my mother’s leaky roof (she lived next door, but was not home at the time) before a heavy rain, when he FELL THROUGH to her living room floor, breaking his arm in the process (I mean, BONE was showing). He laid there, stunned for a minute, staring up through the hole in the roof, until he saw dark clouds gathering, at which point, concerned his tools would get wet & rust, he got up & went outside to climb the ladder BACK up onto the roof to collect his tools. No, he did NOT fall through again, thank gawd! By the time he got everything packed up, my little half sister had arrived home, saw his arm, & was like, “Grandpa! You gotta go to the ER!” He, fearing the never-ending tongue-lashing he was going to receive from my ball-busting grandmother, said “No, I’ll be alright” & BEGGED her not to tell grandma. She helped him carry his toolbox back to his house, & discreetly mentioned to grandma that he’d had a little mishap. Had she not tattled him out, who KNOWS how long he would have gone without getting his arm set?!?!? Stubborn old farmers, they’re all the same! Grandma didn’t give him too hard of a time. He’s in a cast & sling in all their 50th anniversary photos, grinning from ear to ear. ❤️
I was in rehab in 2017 for 30 days. I was suffering from addiction horribly! My room was very very haunted and I will never forget my experiences!! Unfortunately rehab didn’t help but other things did and I am now just over 3 years into recovery ❤❤
My Aunt Managed a Spencer's gift most of my life and I've worked at 2 different stores. The edible underwear is pretty recognizable. It's essentially a fruit roll up. Fun fact it contained a synthetic sweetner and the box of edible undies read "may cause cancer."
Funny story I have a ram who got upset with me and slammed my arm in a wall ended up with a displaced midshaft radial Fracture... it happened on Monday and refused to get it looked at until my boss "forced " me to ... had a dip in my bone and arm was 3 or 4 times it's normal size from swelling and I finally got it xrayed and required surgery that Friday...after injury continued to lift 5 gallon buckets of water and 50 lb bags of feed .... so I definitely agree farmersxare strong
Farmers and equestrians. If either enter into the ER willingly and conscious you can look forward to some new ways to compare humans to cockroaches. Went to the hospital a few weeks ago after falling off my horse. Apparently I got back on and rode fine after that but have no memory of it. Bussed down to the ER because my ribs and neck were kinda hurting. The intake nurse took one look at me and had me in a chair with a neckbrace immediately. Felt kimda bad because it was avery busy night with a full room including one person waiting who had a foot wrapped up and elevated and another with a head wound that i could see andi was bumped upfront. Got CT scan and made the doctor very worried. Apparently my neck was one bad jar from internal decapitation and I had broken my shoulder bad enough to bend the metal already in it and both my wrists. I also somehow didn't notice that I had been walking on a severely broken foot for the last few months. In my defense, I work on my feet and just got new shoes that haven't been broken in yet and new riding boots after the last pair got cut off 😢 so stumbling about with foot pain after clocking about 10km of walking at work, and another 20km between my morning/night runs, plus dealing with stompy asshole green horses all day the foot pain kinda just seemed like background noise.
So, last November, i got up from a nap to use the restroom. While in the bathroom i got dizzy and fell, landing on my right leg. I'm not a skinny chick and so i heard a crack and a pop when i landed. I had to walk/crawl from my bathroom, down my long ass hallway and into the den where my phone was. Kept thinking it was a sprain or a strain so i called 311. Turns out, i must've been in shock because i was trying to walk on a compound fracture. I got lectured by dispatch for not calling 911 and lectured for not trying to yell for help(no one would've heard me). In my case, i was a bit of hypochondriac child and had thought i broke an ankle when it was really a sprain or thought i was deadly sick when it was just a cold. As a result, now that im an adult. I tend to write things off and try to deny them.
I’m a pharmacy tech. Two occasions i had patients who verbally assaulted and threatened me. 😅 One threw the bench at us. And one threatened to choke me by wrapping her hands around my throat and squeezing until i passed out. The pharmacist did nothing and the tech i worked with (this was before i was a tech) had me go finish helping them so they didn’t have to. Nearly 10 years later and luckily i have only had one more similar experience. 4 or 5 different pharmacies and managers later i found a good space. Ironically i had fewer problems interning as a xray tech in a level 1 trauma hospital than i did in pharmacies. Wild.
My farmer dad was helping a farmer friend fix her fence. He hit his thumb with the hammer. Drove himself home, instead of the hospital, which was closer, and called my Mum. We had just *left* the hospital coz I trapped *my* thumb in the car door. (I did that so much as a kid that my right thumb nail bed is permanently damaged, and the nail grows in wrinkled. Very weird.) We got home to pick him up, and he was just sitting there, doing the newspaper crossword puzzle, left hand sitting on the table, thumb up 👍, wrapped in a wad of blood soaked toilet paper. Got to the hosp, nurses were like "??? Why are you back?????" Mum was like "It's my husband this time." Dad's thumb injury was a little more severe, he'd hit his thumb so hard that it had split, and the bone was exposed. 😖😖😖 I'll never forget getting home to him just sitting at the kitchen table, chillin, doing a crossword puzzle. Glad I wasn't there when he hit it tho, coz the air would have been full on navy 😂😂
Oh! And my Papa (Dad's dad, farming family) got run over by his own tractor so bad that one leg was permanently 3 inches short than the other. Idk how he survived. I'm betting Nana wasn't happy with his that day 🤣🤣 *Maybeeee* don't upset a farmer, *never* upset their wife!
My dad spent his first 16 years of life being a farmer, which is bad enough. He then spent 16-20 being a _logger,_ which is somehow even _worse_ (this was back in the 60's and early 70's, hence the child labor). Here's one of many instances where he's a shining example of how that lifestyle screws with you: He accidentally partially -- almost _fully_ -- amputated his own thumb when he was 11; it was literally just dangling from a flap of skin a la Nearly Headless Nick. He didn't have a car and his mom (the only parent in his life) was at work, so he just wrapped it up with copious amounts of towels and created a fairly impressive compression bandage. His mom didn't come home until after the doctors had gone home, and they were so broke that she refused to tank the cost of calling a doctor after-hours; thus, my dad had to wait a combined total of _fourteen hours_ before seeing a doctor. When they went in, the doctor lost his _sh!t_ over how long my dad went without care, but did his absolute best to stitch him back together. The wildest part? _His thumb still works to this day!_ Sure, he has no feeling in that thumb whatsoever, but he's able to move/use it just like his non-injured thumb.
That's what I was thinking, fancy s toys are all above $75 and anything custom will run you $200. Thousands of dollars worth of toys could fit in one suitcase.
my farmer grandpa once was shooting a rifle down a goffer hole. The bullet ricocheted off something and ended up shooting himself in the hand (the webbing between the thumb and pointer finger) The man poured hydrogen peroxide on it and wrapped it up with gauze, it was only when grandma (ironically a nurse) got home that she insisted he go to the ER.
It's pretty easy to believe someone had thousands of dollars worth of sex equipment... That stuff can be pretty expensive. Also just because someone is into kink that doesn't mean they're into drugs... In fact it's much less likely as a big component of kink is both personal responsibility and agreed consent. When someone is using drugs consent really can't be given so it's not as common for those into kink to be drug users as you might think. Edit: Also I'm pretty sure edible underwear is pretty obviously edible underwear as it probably looks more like a fruit roll up than fabric,
I have had a broken left ankle, broken right heel, crushed or broken fronts of feet, 2 broken ribs, 7 broken noses, fractured skull, crushed right ch 9:46 eekbone-WITHOUT PAIN MEDICINE!!!! ( I Used to be addicted to pain medicine...My broken noses are from narcolepsy.. dad had it too.Gotta say, the ribs hurt aLOT, and my right cheekbone Still hurts! I'll be Goddamn if I EVER ask for PAIN Medicine again!!!
If you haven't been assaulted by a patient do you deserve to call yourself a healthcare worker? Truer words ever spoken. My eldest got punched repeatedly & violently dragged by her hair down the hallway by 6'5 male dementia patient. Broken collar bone, whiplash and black eyes. All bcuz she brought him iced water like he wanted. Nursing home wanted her back at work the next day. Like WTH?
I’m a family physician of about 30 years. Many years ago I was assaulted by a patient. The only injury was from where she dug her fingernails into me. I still have the scar on my wrist to remind me.
Do you still work as a nurse if I may ask? I work as a farmhand and I agree that we are a tough set of people. However... I have been badly injured a couple of times. In 2020 just as the pandemic started a boar at work injured me. He just wanted to go by me and I was in the way. Damn tusk made a 12 cm long cut in the muscle in my lower left leg. Like 2,5 cm deep at the deepest. 15 stitches. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks before they could stitch it together. In april 26 this year I broke both my tibia and fibula in my right leg. Like 10 cm over the foot joint. When the ambulance came they could not get the stretcher to me so my boss and my coworker got a wagon for pulling dead animals out. When we went by the office I was happy that they did not get the bolt gun and knife out. I told this to a EMT yesterday and he laughed just as my colleagues does when I tells them about it. Yes I have a morbid sense of humor.
I have been in some shady places doing home health! Not only take your glasses off butt tie your hair back because it’s hard as hell to get them to release it! 😂
You learn a lot of things you never thought of when working EMS. Edible underwear looks like fruit rolls with string licorice attached. Wound care does home visits to wherever the patient is.
I don't know if this will be weird enough for a video, but one time I went to the E.R. for a dog bite. When the nurse came to cut the crude bandages I'd put on at home, he had trouble, so I offered him my pocketknife. He didn't even blink, just said "Oh, sure, that'll work."
I worked at a nursing home. On the dementia floor. The night shift. Some crazy things happened. The weirdest was I found writing in crayon on the wall that said “help I’m in the closet” my co worker and I had to go and check every closet and bathroom on the floor (about 20 rooms) for patients stuck in a closet. We didn’t find anyone out of bed. WHO WROTE THAT?
The things that I have seen in Edmonton, none of this surprises me, Lmao In all seriousness, I am in the Edmonton hospitals quite often for a lot of things, and let me just say: Everything in Edmonton is chaos, especially the ER
Hi Steven! Went to your show in Chandler yesterday and just wanted to say I had a blast! (Definitely worth going to despite the fact I had to be up at 5:30AM the next day for work) Thanks for stopping by!
I broke my shoulder in one place, I waited a week before going to the doctor. It did not hurt much, I just was sick of not being able to lift it above my shoulder. I always thought broken bones were supposed to hurt. It was more like an average period day, no big deal.
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Argh!!! I NEED THE DEETS if the Santa story!!!😢😂🎉❤
More of this series, please!
Hi Steve I hope you see this comment I know you always do funny stories about people coming into the ER....Well I'm going to turn the tables and tell you a ridiculous story about me as a patient going to the ER via ambulance! So I have a history of recent stress in the last five or so years and had had some ulcers that had been taken care of laparoscopically. I hadn't had any for almost the whole year last year, so I decided that when I started feeling pretty bad stomach pains at home that it was just an ulcer and it would take some also medicine and wait it out.
I live in Toronto Ontario Canada by the way so if I chose to go to the ER I'd probably be waiting like 6 hours to see a doctor snd I felt more comfortable at home. But throughout the day the pain got increasingly worse to the point where lying down was not an option sitting wasn't an option my dad finally said screw this and called 911. For some reason are paramedics are too lazy to bring the bed from their ambulance into the house even though I lived in A GROUND LEVEL Bungalow so there was no stairs for them to drag me up and down they just come in assess you I said I was probably ulcers and they drag you outside under their arms.
I was bent over and in extreme pain but as soon as they lay me down on the stretcher and I'm in a horizontal position I cease to be able to speak and just admitted a constant groan like I couldn't talk I didn't know at the time what was going on while I'm in the ambulance and they're driving me to the hospital no lights blaring just driving me nicely, like there's all the Time in the World to get there! The woman who's attending to me actually asked me if I thought it could be Period Cramps!!! I was lucid enough even though my ears were blanking out noise around me as I just felt this extreme pain in my abdomen and sickness that I still was able to pull through that fog and look at her with daggers like I wanted to murder her and I said are you f****** kidding me right now??? anyways when they pulled up there was tons of people lined up I guess they were smart enough to figure out something was really wrong threw me in a wheelchair and pulled me back threw me in a room pluged me up to some liquids. Now when I was sitting in the chair being reeled into the room I wasn't making that noise as much, but as soon as they put me on the bed I started again with this horrible pain and I said it's really painful for me to lie down something bad is going on and I was almost at this point I hadn't seen a doctor so I couldn't get any pain medicine luckily they put me in a room that had a closed door not in a room that's just separated by sheets like the other people in the ER everybody was very calm in there there was no major emergencies happening with the exception of me which they were ignoring one b**** ass ER nurse actually had the balls to come into my room and say "can you quiet it down there are people in the ER sicker than you right now and you're making a lot of noise"! I'm sorry I can't control what's coming out of my mouth right now because I'm literally dying in front of their eyes (as you'll find out later) and what am I in the library???? is this not the f****** Hospital anyways several hours go by I'm hooked up to an IV they finally get a porter to push me to the MRI as soon as I get on the bed again lying horizontal for the MRI I start making the noise the technician gets very concerned on his face right away does the MRI and literally within 3 minutes there was about 12 people in the MRI room yelling and all kinds of chaos going on nobody telling me what's happening they throw me back on a bed start sticking IVs all over me a doctor who have never seen before and never spoken to comes up to me with like a 40 page document holding the last page above my head and said sign here! I said what am I signing? he's like we need to do emergency surgery. I said what for what? he said you have a perforated stomach and bowel and the Bile from your stomach is inside your entire abdomen and your organs are going into septic shock and starting to fail! I said can I call my dad? they said no we'll call him after! I said can I someone read to me when I'm signing he's like no please just sign this so I scribbled something I still don't know to this day what f****** document it was probably saying although we made you wait for hours and hours and you were slowly dying on her table! (and I found out later that the hole was in the top of my stomach so that's why it hurts so much when I was lying flat because the Bile was flowing freely out of the top of my stomach so when I sat up it was less painful and screaming because it was still coming out but not as fast) so I'm sure the document said it's not our fault! so I went into emergency surgery they had to take pieces of My Flesh from the interior part of my body that wasn't destroyed patch up the hole in my stomach do all kinds of other crazy things I still don't know what to this day I woke up in the hospital was there for 3 weeks I had tubes coming out of my nose draining bags and bags for the first 3 days of this green bile out of my stomach it was horrendous and bags attached to my stomach removing the blood from my abdomen they did not bed wash me once in tye 3 wks I was there once I was unplugged from the Bile machine collector and the blood collector machine after 4 or 5 days and had a blood transplant, they basically expected me to get up and get to the bathroom by myself which was horrendously painful even to lift myself into a seated position because I had multiple surgery scars all over my stomach where they went in so I had to pee like every 2 hours and I would press the nurses button and nobody would come for 15 minutes so I tried to raise myself out of bed which was horribly painful I had different people coming in and out from surgeries into my room they all had minor stuff and recovered after a couple days and left. I was kind of in there for a long time on this ICU Surgery recovery floor so I had like five different roommates over that time so I basically had to like pee into a diaper and wait for someone to come and drag it off me and slap some water on me and then put a new one on really painfully I would be sleeping and I would wake up to someone pricking my arm to take blood like "yo can you wake me up first so I don't wake up to like you standing above me like a gargoyle trying to stick needles into my arm what the f***"?
as a result I've had horrible complications this was over a year and a half ago that I've had complications from vomiting up green bile still affecting my throat, teeth, nasal cavity etc.I am also not able to eat properly! At the hospital, they couldn't even put a stint in my arm to give me nutrition because they couldn't find a vein they literally came in with an x-ray machine to find a vein in my arm lower and upper arm in couldn't catch a vein cuz I was so dehydrated and hadn't eaten and had drank anything yet I lost 35 lbs and I was already very slim so I look like a skeleton when I was finally able to stumble out of the hospital I've had loads of complications and Specialists since and they keep just bouncing me back and forth between Specialists nobody willing to take the blame and no one will be willing to take on trying to repair all the issues that transpired after their sloppy s*** work so yeah that was my last experience in the ER and I've had issues since then and I wait and make an appointment with the specialist and get someone to basically carry me to their office Where They usually beg me to go to the hospital and I'm like I'm not going to the hospital man these are the people that almost killed me!
the first thing I said I forgot to mention when I saw them going crazy trying to get me to sign the paper, I asked him" is this a very painful situation" he's like "yeah it's very painful what's happening right now you've got stomach bile and acid burning all your organs inside your abdomen and it's extraordinarily painful" and I said can you do me a favor and tell that nurse in the ER that told me to shut up when I was moaning uncontrollably in pain that I'm having an emergency surgery and according to you if I had waited another 2 hours I'd be dead???
he said he would talk to her but I never heard anything about it since so it's not always idiots that end up in the ER sometimes there's just plain idiots treating people innocent people in the ER I could have died on their watch easily! So I hope you tell some of those stories about stupid Er and paramedics who surmised that me going into septic shock and dying in her ambulance was as a result of menstruation cramps! Dude if I didn't laugh at their stupidity I'd be crying all day long!!!!
AI art in the thumbnail!? Seriously Steve????
My grandfather is a farmer. He got ran over by his GIANT TRACTOR and was still able to WALK back to his wife where she called 911!!! I still cant beleive hes still alive! He had a BUNCH of injuries including a collapsed lung, crushed ribs and several other broken bones, etc.! Farmers ARE tough!
I read this as "My grandfather is a GIANT TRACTOR," and my brain just decided, "Yeah, that's a logical statement"
Lol
So true.
The oldest man in town tilled his fields, got off his tractor & went down.
He ended up being "ok" but never went out again.
Died around the time his wife did.
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Not to mention trying to handle obstreperous livestock who (1) weigh a lot and (2) don't understand you are trying to help them.
@@deserabailey8500 about 13 years ago, a buddy of mine had been drinking...an admittedly unhealthy amount of those high gravity alcohol/energy drinks...we were out and got separated and I woke up in a hospital. It took the cops 4 days (which I spent 2 of unconscious) to find me because I didn't take an ambulance. Turns out, the guy who hit me with his car (in all fairness, he was looking for me, too) had called them to tell them he thought he hit something because he was on his way home and all his external lights died...poor guy was a wreck. It turns out, I walked 4 miles on a broken hip, with a severe concussion and a dislocated shoulder... according to all of the doctors, if I had been sober, I would have died (admittedly, I took the wrong information from that at the time). I say all this to say, if you ever find yourself drunk and lost walking down a back country road with no lights and your phone has a charge, step off the road and call 9-1-1 (or whatever your local Emergency Services number is. They can find you, don't be a hero.
@@serahloeffelroberts9901 that word doesn't really fit livestock. Boisterous, maybe, but not obstreperous. Livestock is RARELY aggressive.
If a farmer goes in to the doc for help (or calls 911 for an ambulance), its SO MUCH WORSE than you know. Source, I have lived in a rural area my whole life and seen/heard some real "fun" stories.
If the farmer did all that AND left some work unfinished get all hands on deck, shit just got real!
I work in agriculture/animal welfare, and I didn't go to the hospital until 4 days after I broke my back so badly that my T1 vertebra had dissolved into non-existence.
I was pretty sure I had just pulled a muscle and decided to give it some time, but the darn thing just kept getting worse, so I gave up when I stopped being able to move and had my partner drive me in. 😂
Same with native Americans.. my spouse was 911 for 20 years.. gets a call.. a native calmy says I've been stabbed.. no panic at all. She had the the emt's go full code stat.. he did live
Farm kid. If we went, we were near death.
It’s all bad!! Every time!! Especially the tractors. I was in the ER waiting room once in not too bad anaphylaxis. I had to try to explain to the guy who’s fingers just popped off that “lady’s first” doesn’t count when your trying to reattach dead tissue and that I would be fine until his hand had been rebuilt because I already used my Epi-Pen.
I’m a retired Surgical Trauma scrub nurse from an inner city hospital. They stories we heard helped us to not lose our minds from what we did for 12+ hrs a day. Our dark humor kept us able to take care of the worst of the worst traumas.
I work telephone triage, and we know, WE KNOW that if a farmer rings, then it's damn seriously, and he's probably half dead.
My stepdad is a farmer. He lost three fingers in a chain. He wrapped his hand up, walked a few hundred yards to the house, filled up a bucket with ice, went and got his fingers and drove HIMSELF to the ER. Farmers are indeed built tough.
The beekeeper should no longer be allowed to keep bees.
We had a pt come in complaining he had a bug 🐛 in his ear. The way he was twitching and acting the staff all thought he was twe@king. So to address the problem Doc looks in pt ear. Dr leapt 3ft back. Poor guy had a 3/4in beetle 🪲 in his ear. We were all itching our ears the rest of the night after seeing it. 😲
That story about the beekeeper made me grateful that the hornet sting I currently have is only on my arm! Lol
Reminds me of the time I backhanded a wasp
I'm a farmer and can 100% relate... even stitched up my own flesh once with out any anastetic
I’m shure u sitchded it up wit twine and a nedle
thats easy i did that when i was nine
Were you out of glue and duct tape?
@@cathipalmer8217 I tried both but they were unsuccessful
@@cathipalmer8217tried both but didn't work...
My favorite part of all this was how you go from the "ghost in my butt" story and follow it up in the next story with a haunted vagina joke. You rock.
Hey Steve, great vid about Edmonton. I can't tell you some of the stories I heard about the ER's in Calgary but I can tell you that once a bear decided to walk through the automatic doors to Emergency at the Rockyview Hospital. I suspect that many people felt they didn't really need to be there after all.
Holy sh-
Good way to weed out the fakers.
Hospitals should hire bears now and you only go in, if you really need it!
Well, that's a hell of a thing to learn about the place you were born.
Speaking of crazies on meth, I was a patient in the ER and EMS brought in a man who had cut off his penis because “It was too big and kept hitting his leg when he walked.” This guy was covered in blood, laughing and flirting with all of the nurses. Every single provider on that floor (and a few who came down from other floors) walked by to take a look. His dismembered member was not with him when he arrived. They had been unable to locate it. (And, even if they had, they wouldn’t have been able to reattach it.) His tone and demeanor changed a few hours later when the drugs started to wear off and he realized what had happened. I am pretty sure that people could hear him screaming several floors up.
Wow 😳
This is hands down the BEST "don't do drugs" story I have ever heard. RIP meth guy's PP
We had a guy do this but he did it while running from the cops and threw his penis at the cops ,☠️
D: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@patriciahamel5674 We had a guy do this but he was running from the cops then cut it off and threw it at them. ☠️
'Door Douche' had me rollin'!!!
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My grandfather was trying to patch my mother’s leaky roof (she lived next door, but was not home at the time) before a heavy rain, when he FELL THROUGH to her living room floor, breaking his arm in the process (I mean, BONE was showing). He laid there, stunned for a minute, staring up through the hole in the roof, until he saw dark clouds gathering, at which point, concerned his tools would get wet & rust, he got up & went outside to climb the ladder BACK up onto the roof to collect his tools.
No, he did NOT fall through again, thank gawd!
By the time he got everything packed up, my little half sister had arrived home, saw his arm, & was like, “Grandpa! You gotta go to the ER!” He, fearing the never-ending tongue-lashing he was going to receive from my ball-busting grandmother, said “No, I’ll be alright” & BEGGED her not to tell grandma. She helped him carry his toolbox back to his house, & discreetly mentioned to grandma that he’d had a little mishap.
Had she not tattled him out, who KNOWS how long he would have gone without getting his arm set?!?!? Stubborn old farmers, they’re all the same!
Grandma didn’t give him too hard of a time. He’s in a cast & sling in all their 50th anniversary photos, grinning from ear to ear. ❤️
I was in rehab in 2017 for 30 days. I was suffering from addiction horribly! My room was very very haunted and I will never forget my experiences!! Unfortunately rehab didn’t help but other things did and I am now just over 3 years into recovery ❤❤
That’s awesome keep on keeping on
This needs to be an ongoing segment. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A previous healthcare job taught me to always have a spare pair of glasses in my car lol
My Aunt Managed a Spencer's gift most of my life and I've worked at 2 different stores. The edible underwear is pretty recognizable. It's essentially a fruit roll up. Fun fact it contained a synthetic sweetner and the box of edible undies read "may cause cancer."
Every pair of underwear is edible if you're hungry or determined enough.
You have a labrador, dont you?
I think he is the lab. It's become smart enough to comment@@Plethorality
😂😂😂😂😂
Well today I learned how my little brother stayed still for stitches to his eyelid after he was struck in the face with a hockey stick.
I cant stop laughing at peoples stupidity. I could see Austin getting rhe glasses patient and Rich having to drive him home!
As an Edmontonian who recently finished a long hospital stay, this _really_ caught my attention.
Funny story I have a ram who got upset with me and slammed my arm in a wall ended up with a displaced midshaft radial Fracture... it happened on Monday and refused to get it looked at until my boss "forced " me to ... had a dip in my bone and arm was 3 or 4 times it's normal size from swelling and I finally got it xrayed and required surgery that Friday...after injury continued to lift 5 gallon buckets of water and 50 lb bags of feed .... so I definitely agree farmersxare strong
Apparently I suspect there is one out there that ain't too bright, either.😒
@@dward8146you could be right.
Farmers and equestrians. If either enter into the ER willingly and conscious you can look forward to some new ways to compare humans to cockroaches.
Went to the hospital a few weeks ago after falling off my horse. Apparently I got back on and rode fine after that but have no memory of it. Bussed down to the ER because my ribs and neck were kinda hurting. The intake nurse took one look at me and had me in a chair with a neckbrace immediately. Felt kimda bad because it was avery busy night with a full room including one person waiting who had a foot wrapped up and elevated and another with a head wound that i could see andi was bumped upfront. Got CT scan and made the doctor very worried. Apparently my neck was one bad jar from internal decapitation and I had broken my shoulder bad enough to bend the metal already in it and both my wrists. I also somehow didn't notice that I had been walking on a severely broken foot for the last few months. In my defense, I work on my feet and just got new shoes that haven't been broken in yet and new riding boots after the last pair got cut off 😢 so stumbling about with foot pain after clocking about 10km of walking at work, and another 20km between my morning/night runs, plus dealing with stompy asshole green horses all day the foot pain kinda just seemed like background noise.
So, last November, i got up from a nap to use the restroom. While in the bathroom i got dizzy and fell, landing on my right leg. I'm not a skinny chick and so i heard a crack and a pop when i landed. I had to walk/crawl from my bathroom, down my long ass hallway and into the den where my phone was. Kept thinking it was a sprain or a strain so i called 311. Turns out, i must've been in shock because i was trying to walk on a compound fracture. I got lectured by dispatch for not calling 911 and lectured for not trying to yell for help(no one would've heard me).
In my case, i was a bit of hypochondriac child and had thought i broke an ankle when it was really a sprain or thought i was deadly sick when it was just a cold. As a result, now that im an adult. I tend to write things off and try to deny them.
I’m a pharmacy tech. Two occasions i had patients who verbally assaulted and threatened me.
😅
One threw the bench at us. And one threatened to choke me by wrapping her hands around my throat and squeezing until i passed out.
The pharmacist did nothing and the tech i worked with (this was before i was a tech) had me go finish helping them so they didn’t have to.
Nearly 10 years later and luckily i have only had one more similar experience.
4 or 5 different pharmacies and managers later i found a good space.
Ironically i had fewer problems interning as a xray tech in a level 1 trauma hospital than i did in pharmacies.
Wild.
My farmer dad was helping a farmer friend fix her fence. He hit his thumb with the hammer. Drove himself home, instead of the hospital, which was closer, and called my Mum. We had just *left* the hospital coz I trapped *my* thumb in the car door. (I did that so much as a kid that my right thumb nail bed is permanently damaged, and the nail grows in wrinkled. Very weird.) We got home to pick him up, and he was just sitting there, doing the newspaper crossword puzzle, left hand sitting on the table, thumb up 👍, wrapped in a wad of blood soaked toilet paper.
Got to the hosp, nurses were like "??? Why are you back?????" Mum was like "It's my husband this time." Dad's thumb injury was a little more severe, he'd hit his thumb so hard that it had split, and the bone was exposed. 😖😖😖
I'll never forget getting home to him just sitting at the kitchen table, chillin, doing a crossword puzzle. Glad I wasn't there when he hit it tho, coz the air would have been full on navy 😂😂
Oh! And my Papa (Dad's dad, farming family) got run over by his own tractor so bad that one leg was permanently 3 inches short than the other. Idk how he survived. I'm betting Nana wasn't happy with his that day 🤣🤣 *Maybeeee* don't upset a farmer, *never* upset their wife!
I was not expecting such crazy stories from Canada!😳🇨🇦
"How did you know how much this all was worth??" My exact thoughts stated immediately.. 😂😂😂😂
SANTA IS REAL. THAT was *a very naughty elf* in a Santa suit.
And never tell a child anything different.
My dad spent his first 16 years of life being a farmer, which is bad enough. He then spent 16-20 being a _logger,_ which is somehow even _worse_ (this was back in the 60's and early 70's, hence the child labor). Here's one of many instances where he's a shining example of how that lifestyle screws with you:
He accidentally partially -- almost _fully_ -- amputated his own thumb when he was 11; it was literally just dangling from a flap of skin a la Nearly Headless Nick. He didn't have a car and his mom (the only parent in his life) was at work, so he just wrapped it up with copious amounts of towels and created a fairly impressive compression bandage. His mom didn't come home until after the doctors had gone home, and they were so broke that she refused to tank the cost of calling a doctor after-hours; thus, my dad had to wait a combined total of _fourteen hours_ before seeing a doctor. When they went in, the doctor lost his _sh!t_ over how long my dad went without care, but did his absolute best to stitch him back together.
The wildest part? _His thumb still works to this day!_ Sure, he has no feeling in that thumb whatsoever, but he's able to move/use it just like his non-injured thumb.
Farmers are a whole different breed of “Ah, it’s just a scratch.” While their arm is barely hanging on by a ligament.
Tis but a flesh wound!
Dude, sex toys get expensive... "Thousands of dollars" is not as much as you think lol
That's what I was thinking, fancy s toys are all above $75 and anything custom will run you $200. Thousands of dollars worth of toys could fit in one suitcase.
@@wickeddelight in some cases, thousand of dollars could be one toy!
3:45 EBAY + broke, curious paramedics
As an Edmontonian who is starting his 4th year of nursing school on Wednesday this is much appreciated!
Rectum.. dang near killed him
Never gets old! : )
That was a running joke when I was growing up in the 50s-60s. Thanks for the memory 😂
I love this format of story telling. i love you calm voice.
Mannn I LUV your stories and your style! Retired Medical Lab technologist here, and u SOOO true! Can't see enough....
my farmer grandpa once was shooting a rifle down a goffer hole. The bullet ricocheted off something and ended up shooting himself in the hand (the webbing between the thumb and pointer finger) The man poured hydrogen peroxide on it and wrapped it up with gauze, it was only when grandma (ironically a nurse) got home that she insisted he go to the ER.
It's pretty easy to believe someone had thousands of dollars worth of sex equipment... That stuff can be pretty expensive. Also just because someone is into kink that doesn't mean they're into drugs... In fact it's much less likely as a big component of kink is both personal responsibility and agreed consent. When someone is using drugs consent really can't be given so it's not as common for those into kink to be drug users as you might think.
Edit: Also I'm pretty sure edible underwear is pretty obviously edible underwear as it probably looks more like a fruit roll up than fabric,
This is exactly why I never wanted to work in healthcare even tho it kinda fascinates me. How the body works is very intriguing
People’s utter stupidity fascinates me lol
@@briankuhn_ Methinks Darwin Awards is what you are looking for. You're welcome.
So...The Doctor won't appreciate it, when I tell him/her to break out their BEST BEADS AND RATTLES???😂❤🎉
You are awesome!!!
Poor Bees...
Best thing I’ve seen on you tube in a while. Please do more like this ❤
I have had a broken left ankle, broken right heel, crushed or broken fronts of feet, 2 broken ribs, 7 broken noses, fractured skull, crushed right ch 9:46 eekbone-WITHOUT PAIN MEDICINE!!!!
( I Used to be addicted to pain medicine...My broken noses are from narcolepsy.. dad had it too.Gotta say, the ribs hurt aLOT, and my right cheekbone Still hurts!
I'll be Goddamn if I EVER ask for PAIN Medicine again!!!
If you haven't been assaulted by a patient do you deserve to call yourself a healthcare worker? Truer words ever spoken. My eldest got punched repeatedly & violently dragged by her hair down the hallway by 6'5 male dementia patient. Broken collar bone, whiplash and black eyes. All bcuz she brought him iced water like he wanted. Nursing home wanted her back at work the next day. Like WTH?
I’m a family physician of about 30 years. Many years ago I was assaulted by a patient. The only injury was from where she dug her fingernails into me. I still have the scar on my wrist to remind me.
DoorDouche sounds like it has potential as a concierge service.
5:28 I would like to say at this I am still eating 😂
Loving this whole new type of videos
Please please make this a series, this was amazing 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do you still work as a nurse if I may ask? I work as a farmhand and I agree that we are a tough set of people. However... I have been badly injured a couple of times. In 2020 just as the pandemic started a boar at work injured me. He just wanted to go by me and I was in the way. Damn tusk made a 12 cm long cut in the muscle in my lower left leg. Like 2,5 cm deep at the deepest. 15 stitches. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks before they could stitch it together. In april 26 this year I broke both my tibia and fibula in my right leg. Like 10 cm over the foot joint. When the ambulance came they could not get the stretcher to me so my boss and my coworker got a wagon for pulling dead animals out. When we went by the office I was happy that they did not get the bolt gun and knife out. I told this to a EMT yesterday and he laughed just as my colleagues does when I tells them about it. Yes I have a morbid sense of humor.
I have been in some shady places doing home health!
Not only take your glasses off butt tie your hair back because it’s hard as hell to get them to release it! 😂
I laughed a lot at the pap over the phone. I would have been fired if I answered that call.
I used to work Labor and Delivery...I can totally relate to that call
Oh my God please do more of these videos this was hilarious I am currently doing dialysis and I laughed out loud😂
Sheer perfection per usual.🤣🤣🤣
All I got to say is: "Edmonton"
So keep bees and ghosts out of butts..got it 😊
I had two incidents where I needed stitches as a toddler. I was stoic the whole time, both times. High pain tolerance.
....Oh sweet, poor, demented Edmonton xD
You learn a lot of things you never thought of when working EMS. Edible underwear looks like fruit rolls with string licorice attached.
Wound care does home visits to wherever the patient is.
I don't know if this will be weird enough for a video, but one time I went to the E.R. for a dog bite. When the nurse came to cut the crude bandages I'd put on at home, he had trouble, so I offered him my pocketknife. He didn't even blink, just said "Oh, sure, that'll work."
The bit about the glasses brings back memories! Lmao!
If I was a 78yr old with a bone, I wouldn't let it go either 😂😅😂😅😂😅
Psh. If you can't identify edible underwear by sight... I just don't know what you've been doing with your life.
You are killing me, Sreveioe! What better praise for a healthcare worker! LOL
Rectum? Damn near killed ‘um😂😂
Omg… Farmers Insurance? Please stop you are killing me.
Need more videos like this 😂😂😂
I worked at a nursing home. On the dementia floor. The night shift. Some crazy things happened. The weirdest was I found writing in crayon on the wall that said “help I’m in the closet” my co worker and I had to go and check every closet and bathroom on the floor (about 20 rooms) for patients stuck in a closet. We didn’t find anyone out of bed. WHO WROTE THAT?
Man you really help my depression,when i watch a vid i burst into tears laughing you sir are a funny man X,D
If the patient's underwear look like they are made of laminated Fruit by the Foot, they are edible underwear.
I couldn't help but laugh at all of this video!!! there sure was NOT room for a laughing break just a laughing matter lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The things that I have seen in Edmonton, none of this surprises me, Lmao
In all seriousness, I am in the Edmonton hospitals quite often for a lot of things, and let me just say: Everything in Edmonton is chaos, especially the ER
I was a Medic in the Air Force. Since I worked at the Air Force Base's hospital...I drove myself to my shift...while in labor!
I can not wait to see you in Lexington!!
Oh my goodness this is just too funny
where the fuck was that nasal ketamine when i was 6 years old & had to have my ankle broken back into place- THEY MADE ME FEEL ALL OF IT😭
6:50 I dislocated my shoulder and tore the tenant’s and ligament’s from the bone. Still finished my shift. Oh yeah, at the time I was a concreter.
Hi Steven! Went to your show in Chandler yesterday and just wanted to say I had a blast! (Definitely worth going to despite the fact I had to be up at 5:30AM the next day for work) Thanks for stopping by!
I’m gonna need way more of these videos
6:13 I literaly jumped when he said "I licked it off"
Daaaaang! Could not stop laughing!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
As someone in edmonton all of this tracks
I love the faces you make!😂
As much as I wish those weren't true, I have enough faith in people to realise they are 100% true.
Doorduche I’m dying laughing 🤣
I was eating when the motel one started 😭
I broke my shoulder in one place, I waited a week before going to the doctor. It did not hurt much, I just was sick of not being able to lift it above my shoulder. I always thought broken bones were supposed to hurt. It was more like an average period day, no big deal.
8:55 - You'd think they would've heard the crinkling noise from across the ward.
As a farmer... the shoulders kind if just come out once in awhile, alot... you get used ti it. And define "break"... fractures dont count 😂
5:50
I THOUGHT IT WAS MAGGOTS
Me too!
Just so you know...edible under ware is basically a fruit rollup shaped like panties...you can tell from a distance. 😅🤣😂
That dummy grenade thing happened at the VA in Los Angeles . Me and my pops were there .... dude lost his shit
NOT "THE COSBY" 💀💀💀💀
Thank you for that cornucopia of stories🤣
Thanks for the Steven He
Stevie Joe, you are such a riot. I could listen to you all day and all night long❤❤❤❤❤
I felt my arteries hardening just watching her cut up that lard.
If you have even been in a sex shop you know that stuff is crazy expensive! And edible panties don't look like real panties at all.
This is hysterical 😭 😂