Broken finger?

[Rudyjohn]

All is well with the finger! I came home from a movie and she was waving it at me. It's still a little swollen but she can bend it. In my younger parenting days I would have rushed her off to the ER and been out a $50 copay and 3-4 hours of my time. Yea me!
Thanks for all the input tho!

;-)
Glad you waited it out!

 

[Ocean Lover]

I sound like such an uncaring parent...I mean yea!!! Sam is okay! ;-)

She can be a tad on the dramatic side when it comes to illness and injury so glad it turned out the way it did.

 

[SHELLY]

All is well with the finger! I came home from a movie and she was waving it at me. It's still a little swollen but she can bend it. In my younger parenting days I would have rushed her off to the ER and been out a $50 copay and 3-4 hours of my time. Yea me!
Thanks for all the input tho!

Good for you & her...I learned my lesson a few months ago.

Got finger slammed in car door, red, swollen...hurt like hell.

9pm: Arrived at ER

10pm: Xray taken

--waited, waited, waited

12:30am: Saw Dr for first time, he looked at his chart and said your finger is not broken -- recommended tetnus shot & splint (Asked Dr if he would at least like to look at the finger...I stuck it up in the air...it was middle finger )

--waited, waited, waited

1:30am: Went out to nurse's station to see what the holdup with my splint and shot was. They told me that they were busy and would be with me. I told them since my finger wasn't broken I was just going to check out--"See Ya," and headed for the door. Three medics put down their coffee cups and sprang into action. One darted for the cabinet with the tetnus meds & needle; one went to get the splint material; the other lead me back to the room.

2:15am: I finally left the hospital and walked to my car--as the bandage holding the splint on my finger unraveled and fell to the ground.

My insurance company got the following bill:

Emergency Room Doctor: $210
Tetnus Shot: $63
Radiology/Dianostic: $259
Xray Exam of Finger: $23
Emergency Room Visit: $295
Application of Splint: $27

Giving the doctor "The Finger:" Priceless?

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[Ocean Lover]

Good for you & her...I learned my lesson a few months ago.

Got finger slammed in car door, red, swollen...hurt like hell.

9pm: Arrived at ER

10pm: Xray taken

--waited, waited, waited

12:30am: Saw Dr for first time, he looked at his chart and said your finger is not broken -- recommended tetnus shot & splint (Asked Dr if he would at least like to look at the finger...I stuck it up in the air...it was middle finger )

--waited, waited, waited

1:30am: Went out to nurse's station to see what the holdup with my splint and shot was. They told me that they were busy and would be with me. I told them since my finger wasn't broken I was just going to check out--"See Ya," and headed for the door. Three medics put down their coffee cups and sprang into action. One darted for the cabinet with the tetnus meds & needle; one went to get the splint material; the other lead me back to the room.

2:15am: I finally left the hospital and walked to my car--as the bandage holding the splint on my finger unraveled and fell to the ground.

My insurance company got the following bill:

Emergency Room Doctor: $210
Tetnus Shot: $63
Radiology/Dianostic: $259
Xray Exam of Finger: $23
Emergency Room Visit: $295
Application of Splint: $27

Giving the doctor "The Finger:" Priceless?

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Oh man,ouch and ouch.

 

[DreamnOfFL]

Just be careful about the whole "Buddy Tape" issue. My daughter broke her exact finger when she was 10 years old. The Dr's Office said it wasn't a fracture and to just buddy tape it to the finger to the right of it, so that is what we did. A week or so went by and you could see the finger curving to the right. After another trip to the Dr they determined it was indeed fractured on the left side of the index finger near the knuckle. Taping it to the other finger had pulled it to the right and caused it to heal crooked! They sent her a Orthopedic Dr who informed us the only way to correct it would be to rebreak it and set it in a splint. We didn't do that. She is 16 now and it is still crooked. She suffers from pain if she writes long essays or things like that. So just be careful when taping fingers to other fingers.

 

[audie]

then after pts sit in the e.r. and wait and wait and wait, sometimes up to 6 hrs, they bring their prescriptions down to the pharmacy to get filled and go ballistic a) when you say there may be a 5-10 minute wait time, and b) when you tell them they have to pay for it.

such is the life of audie

 

[SHELLY]

then after pts sit in the e.r. and wait and wait and wait, sometimes up to 6 hrs, they bring their prescriptions down to the pharmacy to get filled and go ballistic a) when you say there may be a 5-10 minute wait time, and b) when you tell them they have to pay for it.

such is the life of audie

The pharmacy should offer them something from the shelf to make their wait a bit more comfortable.

(The doctor offered up some painkillers for my finger--I refused, probably saved my insurer being charged $20 a copy for some Tylenol2.)



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[audie]

The pharmacy should offer them something from the shelf to make their wait a bit more comfortable.

(The doctor offered up some painkillers for my finger--I refused, probably saved my insurer being charged $20 a copy for some Tylenol2.)



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yeah, that would be a good idea.... they are mostly after one thing, guess we could keep painkillers in a candy dish for their snacking pleasure....

 

[Cheering472]

yeah, that would be a good idea.... they are mostly after one thing, guess we could keep painkillers in a candy dish for their snacking pleasure....

That would "happy" them right up.

 

[SHELLY]

yeah, that would be a good idea.... they are mostly after one thing, guess we could keep painkillers in a candy dish for their snacking pleasure....

A great tip for recycling drugs that have passed their expiration dates!


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