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  • - And I see a hand reach down to me.

  • I kind of reached up to it

  • and I kinda took that as if it was a let's go.

  • (mysterious music)

  • - Hey guys, I'm Kelsey Rose

  • and today, I'm gonna tell you my ER horror story.

  • I was probably about 14 or 15,

  • it was Thanksgiving and we had just finished dinner,

  • everything was great.

  • All of a sudden, I felt this really sharp pain in my tummy

  • so I was like, in the fetal position, in the bathroom,

  • my mom comes in.

  • Back story, I hate the ER, I hate going to doctors,

  • so when I told her I thought I needed to go to the ER,

  • she knew something was wrong.

  • We finally go in and the doctor

  • starts doing the initial exam,

  • very bluntly, he's like,

  • "Uh, are you sexually active?"

  • And I'm like there with my mom, you know,

  • it's like very uncomfortable.

  • I'm not pregnant, 'cause I knew that's where

  • he was going with it.

  • He's like, "All right, I'm gonna do some blood work."

  • Goes off.

  • He comes back with a pregnancy test.

  • So I did it, mm, what does it say?

  • Not pregnant.

  • The doctor comes in again with another pregnancy test,

  • "We just wanna double check."

  • So, again, go pee on it, not pregnant,

  • boo, I told ya.

  • So, then he's like, "All right, well,

  • "we're gonna take you in to get an ultrasound

  • "because we think you might have an ectopic pregnancy."

  • And I'm like, "I'm not pregnant!"

  • I go in and I'm like laying down

  • and the woman just squirts the gel on me

  • and it's freezing cold,

  • like there's no, "Oh, hey, by the way,

  • "this might be uncomfortable."

  • So, they do the ultrasound,

  • oh, surprise, I don't have an ectopic pregnancy.

  • At this point, we're like five hours into this ordeal

  • from seeing the doctor, so like seven hours later, right?

  • Then the doctor is like off his shift

  • so a new doctor comes in

  • and he's like looking at the chart

  • and I'm like, "Yep, not pregnant."

  • And he's like, "All right, well,

  • "we're gonna do another ultrasound

  • "to see if your appendix is burst."

  • You mean like I've been sitting in this ER

  • with like an appendix that could just be like rupturing?

  • Then I go in for my second ultrasound

  • with the same really jolly nurse.

  • Guess what?

  • My appendix has not burst

  • but this doctor was not convinced.

  • So, they're like, "We're actually gonna keep you overnight."

  • And I'm like, "Dude, it's five in the morning,

  • "I've been here overnight."

  • The guy goes, "We're gonna see in the morning,

  • "if you're not feeling better,

  • "we're gonna do emergency surgery."

  • First, y'all said I was pregnant,

  • now you wanna like roll me into surgery

  • without confirming that my appendix is burst.

  • My mom quickly gets on the phone

  • and calls one of her really good friends

  • who's an ER doctor, and he's like, "T-O, no way."

  • In the morning, a new doctor comes in,

  • so it's been three doctors, and he's like,

  • "Okay, we're not doing emergency surgery, this is crazy."

  • And by that time, my mom's friend

  • who's an ER doctor shows up,

  • gives me a Bio-K, turns out, I'm all good to go

  • because all I had to do was (bleep).

  • Now I don't eat as much on Thanksgiving. (laughs)

  • And that is my ER horror story.

  • - Hey, I'm Rebecca and this is my ER horror story.

  • I was in college about two years ago

  • and when I got to English class,

  • I saw that my teacher had a movie projected on the screen.

  • I sit down and I start watching the film

  • but suddenly, I start to feel this weird feeling.

  • I think back to the sandwich that I'd just had before class,

  • am I gonna throw this up right now?

  • Like, it didn't taste bad when I originally ate it.

  • So, I go to the bathroom just to be sure.

  • I'm in the bathroom for a few seconds

  • and then suddenly, I lean over the toilet

  • and I start puking.

  • And I think, okay, I'm done with that, that was horrific,

  • let me just keep watching this film.

  • Just a few seconds later, I start feeling nauseous again.

  • Why?!

  • I felt like I got it all out.

  • I run to the bathroom but, at this point, I can't stop.

  • I keep puking over and over and over.

  • Could have a salmon sandwich actually caused this?

  • I pull out my phone and I call my mom

  • because she actually works at the ER nearby my house.

  • She comes to pick me up from school and takes me to the ER.

  • I still feel so nauseous

  • so I go into the bathroom of the waiting area

  • and start puking.

  • People start coming inside because I forgot to lock the door

  • and they see me, on my knees, holding the toilet

  • looking like death.

  • Finally, the nurse comes and takes me to the hospital bed

  • and when I look at the nurse,

  • he's the most sexy guy I've ever seen in my life

  • and I'm looking terrible, my face is really pale.

  • I'm so nervous at this great guy next to me,

  • he puts me in bed and he gives an IV

  • which is amazing because after about 10 minutes,

  • I'm feeling so much better.

  • My first reaction is to start flirting with him

  • because he's so cute

  • but I looked terrible and I felt terrible

  • so, as you can imagine, it didn't end in a date.

  • That really sucked

  • and I had so many people see me in the worst state

  • that I've ever been in my life

  • and that's my ER horror story.

  • - Hi, I'm Brian and this is my ER horror story.

  • So, I've been having this pain in my stomach

  • for almost a month and I had no idea what it was,

  • I thought it was just gas.

  • One day, I get up and I go into the kitchen

  • and I collapse to the floor

  • 'cause the pain in my stomach

  • was just unbearable at this point.

  • My cousin, of course, thought I was joking

  • and she was like, "Oh my god, get up."

  • I was like, "I can't, can you call my mom

  • "and get her down here?"

  • My mom came down, she was telling me "Get up, get up."

  • And I couldn't.

  • So, she was like, "Okay, we're taking you to the hospital."

  • And once we got to the hospital,

  • they came and they got me in a wheelchair, put me in there

  • and they did the X-ray,

  • they noticed that there was nothing there.

  • They went and injected Toradol,

  • which I had no idea what it was.

  • So, as the doctor was putting it into my IV,

  • it just started feeling weird.

  • He's like, "Oh no, yeah, it's just a liquid painkiller."

  • I'm like, "No, no, this feels really weird."

  • And as he was finishing up, I started kind of

  • like slouching into my seat and my eyes closed

  • and I couldn't speak,

  • and then I started kind of shaking a little bit.

  • And so, my mom got up, ran out

  • and she started calling doctors.

  • Nobody was around.

  • My cousin got up and she started rolling me around

  • screaming, "Hello, somebody help me, somebody help me!"

  • I could hear everything but I didn't know

  • what was going on around me.

  • At this point, I started slouching even more

  • and everything just started getting kind of muffled.

  • And then they finally, after I don't even know how long,

  • they took me into another room, threw me on the bed

  • and they started slapping me

  • as if that was gonna wake me up,

  • as if I wasn't trying to wake up the whole time.

  • All of a sudden, I just felt like

  • a bunch of people around me,

  • and this is the weird part that always kind of gets me.

  • So, I have my eyes closed and I'm laying there

  • and I see these clouds and I see a hand reach down to me.

  • I kind of reached up to it

  • and I kinda took that as if it was a let's go.

  • The weirdest thing is I was okay with it

  • but then all of a sudden, right when I reached up,

  • it went foop, disappeared and I saw was just like

  • angels flying around me.

  • And then, I woke up in my house the next morning

  • and I was like...

  • My mom's like, "You don't know what happened?"

  • I'm like, "How did I get from the hospital to my bed?"

  • She's like, "Oh, they gave you Benadryl, you knocked out

  • "and we had to drag you up the stairs and take you home."

  • And I just found that I was allergic to Toradol that day,

  • which is a liquid Advil.

  • So, I told her about that whole hand and the angels thing

  • and she told me that she was in the corner

  • of the doctor's room and she was praying

  • for angels to come and save me and do all this fun stuff

  • to get me out of what was going on.

  • So, we never ended up figuring out what happened

  • or why the pain was there.

  • I never felt the pain again.

  • I guess it kinda worked out?

  • And that's my ER horror story.

  • (mysterious music)

- And I see a hand reach down to me.

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