Yeah not knowing whether to man up the pain, or if it's something serious has to be terrible.Last time I was in ER it was fucking stupid, just a way for them to do some practice and make some $$$. Same here. I had crippling pain in my chest, vomiting and sweating right after I got to work. I thought for sure Heart attack and I was working at the hospital so I popped an aspirin and headed down to the ER. Took a lot of blood gave me a few bags of water wouldn't let me get up to urinate and gave me a nitro. Blood work showed no enzimes so they sent me to the cardiologist via ambulance. The wanted to stress test me and video my heart. So they have you lay on your back and pedal at a light pace until your heart hits 180bpm or so... At the time I was pedalling a few hours a few times a week on a recumbant stationery. So k heart wouldn't bump up. Then they decided to give me adrenaline. I pedaled but only got to 140. Dilated blood vessels meant slower beats. So they decided to give me a second and final max dose of adrenaline, and try again. After about 15 seconds they told me to just pedal as fast as I could and ignore the pace light. On the second down stroke my juiced up body pumped so hard I snapped the restraints on the bike knocking the whole machine off the bed and breaking the clamps. The machine fell catching all the cables they had on the advanced heart monitor machine pulling it over and smashing onto the ground and knocked over the poor cute tech running that machine. They they just hoped my bpm was high enough shot in the contrast, and took their video. The head of cardio was the only guy left, came in and said I should have heart issues by looking at me and the fact I have had high bp and cholesterol before, however my heart was in better shape than most people and should be thankful. I ended up in the ER children's waiting room at the other hospital as all the rooms were taken and they found nothing wrong. My attending thought maybe panic attack and acid reflux. Nurse came in I signed discharge paperwork get the IV line taken.out and was ready to go. As I got up my wife noticed my hand wad bleeding a bit out of the bandage. I checked it and pulled under the bandage to re adjust and just SPRAYED blood like I super soaker in what felt like a slowmo horror montage. I was dilated like crazy, ultra hydrated and then pressurized with a work out and adrenaline. I felt so horrible. Thomas the tank books, the kids slide, everything was spattered. I felt fine physically, but not so much emotionally.
