Strangest/ funniest hospital visit you've had ...

WelshBlue

I was just going through my hospital A & E visit list (fairly accident prone, 15 in total)

Mine has to be after getting 'stabbed' in the ear drum.  Working in the forestry industry I took my helmet off to talk to someone, turned sideways ... and bam.  Straight onto the lower branch of a fir tree.  The loudest bang I've ever heard.  Then the pain.

Went to A & E ... told the doctor and nurse what had happened - they just turned around and walked out laughing.  it took a while for them to compose themselves as I was sat there with wood sticking out the side of my head 

Worse was being called 'twiggy' in work for months after 

Any funny hospital anecdotes ?

Sandy_123

Lol @WelshBlue I don't think I have any funny ones

Adeline

Not me but my sister and her now husband have been together since they were teenagers. When dating they used to hang out in an the empty fields around our house in the evenings and hadn't realised one night that someone had moved their horses into it. After being chased by horses and diving over a barbed-wire fence, her boyfriend sliced open his arm pretty badly and got his leg stuck requiring them to call an ambulance. 

Queue fire brigade and ambulance turning up to two very red-faced teenagers who had to explain what they were doing in a field after dark, without their trousers!

durhamjaide2001

I had one when the fire alarms went off in out patients and we all had to evacuate to the car park.

Then another one I thought of is when I had COVID-19 I had to go to hospital as I was vomiting and when I got tested I think the first alarm went off but everyone thought it was the emergency alarm so everyone came running but it was the fire fighters testing the fire alarms. Wasn't that pleasant having a banging headache and being sensitive to loud/sudden noises. 

WelshBlue

@Adeline ... was only room for 1 stud in that field 

Another time ... I had an argument with a chainsaw ... the surgeon came to A & E ... " I'll save the thumb and finger " ... Me ... " I bet you £20 you don't"

Fair play,  next day he paid up    And he discharged me on a Saturday as a bonus. 
All in all in I was in for less than 24 hours, then was wishing I was back in on the morphine

Full respect to those who've had limbs removed .. 2 small stumps throbbed way more than I thought they would, much worse than the initial accident; that didn't really hurt thanks to adrenaline