Comments on: Urgent Care Is Neither Urgent Nor Caring: Discuss

By: A Word from Your Local Vicodin Dealer : Living the Epilogue

A Word from Your Local Vicodin Dealer : Living the Epilogue — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:04:38 +0000

[...] remember last fall, when Aaron’s first semester was coming to a close and exams loomed, and he slammed his finger in the truck door? Something just reminded me of that . . [...]

By: cat

cat — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:01:14 +0000

I just about passed out reading this post. *bleh* Glad you got to see somebody with a medical degree. eventually.

By: Ren

Ren — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:33:23 +0000

Makes a night of playing cards seem really boring after all that! Let Aaron know that we are thinking about him! I know all about the blood-thinner issue and it makes everything worse in a situation like that…

Poor Aaron…thinking of you guys!

By: Linda

Linda — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:23:32 +0000

So sorry that the truck bit Aaron so seriously! So glad that you didn’t faint, and glad that Aaron looks fine and happy and all Hope he heals up fine!!!

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:54:11 +0000

Wow! I can relate to multiple places/doctors before you finally get pain control. Hope all is better today!

By: Lee Ann

Lee Ann — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:15:04 +0000

Good for you trying to save the system money and prevent crowded ERs by going to urgent care first, instead of the ER. Pretty frightening that Aaron’s non-stop bleeding wasn’t taken more seriously there.

I think urgent care centers were developed to handle more routine health care cases on a walk-in basis — and keep such cases out of the ER. I’ll bet they hardly ever see frighteningly urgent cases. You’d have thought they would have immediately sent Aaron to the ER when the bleeding wouldn’t stop.

By: MomJoyceGrandma

MomJoyceGrandma — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:52:02 +0000

umm, aren’t you an editor that might help with the typing??? Just a thought…
Yep – that’s a caring spot, not so good at urgency unless you arrive with heart attack or stroke sypmtoms — then they are ‘johnny n the spot’, seen them in action. And they ALWAYS recommend a “specialist” — I still haven’t bothered with the hand specialist they wanted me to check in with.
I truely enjoyed my afternoon with both the Chatterbox and AJ. Once she ‘warmed up’ to me, the Chatterbox kept, er, chattering. She now has my phone number for whatever form of respite college freshman may need.
And as for AJ — she is perfecting the fine art of chattering very well. Took about an hour to regain my ‘translation’ skills… and the dog and the kitty slept very well, very soon for a very long time! (So did Grandma!)

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:10:56 +0000

I know, he always does this too poor me, doesn’t he? But it’s not like I did look for more than a second, because I would have been on the floor.
Hopefully all it will affect (well, besides hurting!) is his typing for a while. Alas he has to do a lot of typing this week.

By: paige

paige — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:21:40 +0000

Ow, poor you for looking at icky parts of your husband all day. Oh wait, I mean poor Aaron. I hope it was a non-significant finger in the scheme of things…

By: Beka McDowell

Beka McDowell — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:47:07 +0000

Beau said, “Eeehheew.”