“Can you call my wife and tell her she was right? “ He’s a keeper

My mom once sent my dad to the ER with an obvious blood infection, he resisted and kept insisting it’s nothing but went. Doctor said he would have been dead by the morning if he hadn’t come that night.

From what I hear, gunshot wounds initially feel like pebbles hitting your body, but slowly develop an intense burning sensation. I’m other words, it hurts more after you got shot than when you get shot.

Women: why do we live longer than men? Men:

The calm patient is always the one with the emergency.

This is basically my dad. Two weeks ago he was feeling "a little sick" but didn't tell anyone until it was full blown sepsis with pneumonia and they had to remove his appendix. He almost died the first night. He's better now thanks to his girlfriend forcing him to be admitted to the hospital. Bless that woman for her patience and persistence.

This is giving midwestern dads standing outside during storms looking for tornados 😭

his wife: i feel a disturbance in the force

Pretty much exactly how my dad acted when he almost cut his thumb off with a chainsaw😂

I keep telling patients that this is why married men live longer 😅

“SIR, YOU HAVE BEEN SHOT!” HOW ARE YOU NOT FREAKING OUT

You know it's bad when they ask how you walked into the ER 😅

This just brought back a memory of my childhood. My dad had been complaining of headaches and arm and chest pains throughout the week, but would always dismiss my mum when she wanted him to go to the hospital, saying it was probably due to stress at work and that she was being dramatic. Come Sunday, and my dad looked significantly worse; his eyes were bloodshot and he was a little slower due to the pain, but he insisted on us going to church. My mum finally snapped and shouted at him to get in the car and she drove him to the hospital. Some hours later she called us and told us that my dad had been having a heart attack for the past week and if we had waited even an hour before he would’ve died. He had to spend some days in the hospital. Dude came back a wiser man, i.e. always listen to the wife.

"Sir, shooting ranges and accidents don't belong in the same sentence."

He was trying to avoid getting shot again with that last line.

You know that wife is sitting at home going “I feel a disturbance, he must have admitted I was right.”

One of my Uncles was working on his tractor when it grabbed his wedding ring and ripped his finger off. That man went and found his torn off finger and wedding band before going to the hospital. Stayed calm the entire time and it was able to be reattached. He told the nurse who checked him in that he would rather lose his finger than the wedding band that meant the world to him

😂😂 she already knows she’s right.

That actually saves a lot more lives than you think, a worried wife forcing you into hospital

My dad was in his semi truck talking to mom, complaining about chest pain keeping him from sleeping. She called an ambulance near him for him from several states away with his location. By the time they got there he was mid heart attack due to 2 major artery blockages.

“Hey can you call my wife and tell her she was right?” 😂

"Omg how did you walk in here" "My legs "😭💀

After that adrenaline goes away, boy do you hurt. As someone who loves to be sore and loves to work out, I can tell you that there is nothing fun about the day after an adrenaline surge like that hits. The pain is unimaginable.

Any time a farmer comes in to the ED you know it's about to be something wild.

As someone who was stabbed in the arm I can confirm that I didn't even feel it in the moment due to adrenaline. But maybe after 20 minutes or so passed and things calmed down it hurt like HELL

"Yeah, but it's not that bad!" Those are some dangerous words in any situation where there's a wound.

Always listen to your wife if she ask you to go to the hospital.

What an absolute champion. He realized he was wrong, and conceded victory to his wife.

“With my legs” there is always time for dad humor 😂

“Did you get shot?” “Yeah, but…”

“Tis but a scratch.”

“SIR, YOU’VE BEEN SHOT.”

Not the time your wife wants to hear she’s right.

"splash back" Sorry, doing dishes is too danger

Meanwhile, the same man with a cold " Hun..i need to update my will...im dying" 😂

Shock is one heck of a drug.

“This is so embarrassing I don’t wanna be here. My arm rotted off from Lepracy.”

"Call my wife and tell her she was right" said no man EVER

This would be my boyfriend. He has an incredibly high pain tolerance and the adrenaline obviously would make him even more chill about it lmaoo

I hate it when the patient stays silent when they clearly need chest compressions or an AED

Its funny how typically when it's not that serious patients are overly concerned but the ones who are cool and calm need the most attention.

My mom downplays EVERYTHING about her pain in the ER.

My dad when he somehow convinced himself that his heart attacks were “just heartburn”

"tis but a scratch" "YOUR ARMS BEEN CUT OFF"

Every time the actual worst things come in, they're more calm than anyone else.

it's all fun and games until the adrenaline runs out

"Yeah i got shot" "YOU WHAT?!?" "Ehh its not that bad"

People like this have probably had their pain ignored their whole life so they learned to never complain to avoid being mocked

This explains why married men live longer than singles.

Honestly I was expecting "my legs" to be the first thing out of the patient's mouth when asked "what brought you into the ER today?"" 😂😂😂

" I was not shot. I just have a wound that may have been caused by a bullet entering a part of my body."

Same guy the next week when he catches the flu "Honey, you don't understand, my throat is SORE, I'M DYING"

I love it when they underplay it cause it's hilarious. I know it's supposed to be serious, but someone came in and was like "hey so my ex wife threw a knife at me, do ya think someone is available to pull it out? It's alright if I gotta wait" "Sir you have been stabbed, in the gut, like the entire blade is in your stomach" "Yeah but it isn't that bad, we just had a little argument. Can ya pull it out?" "I'm gonna get a wheelchair... And a room.. Can you sit down for a second? " "Oh yeah sure thing. Should I try to wiggle it out? " "NO! NO PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH IT" I laughed the moment I went to get a wheelchair, he was so damn calm

" 'Tis but a scratch!"

When the acronym is longer than the word its existence stops making sense

I had a friend of mine (17m) who joined a gym and began working out with some really heavy stuff, he noticed that his arm began hurting, but his coach convinced him that it's natural and you muscles are being torn and re-build to be stronger, but the aching got worse where he felt like his left arm specifically is being paralyzed (he couldn't do simple tasks with it) , his mom took hime to the ER one day cuz he no longer could feel his left arm and it was changing colors kind of, the doctor informs her then, that his left arm got broken in two places. Keep in mind the ER trip was about 2 weeks from his gym sessions began. P. s : he's okay 👌😊 (Sorry for my English)

My mom is a nurse and said one time a patient just casually walked into the hospital and her blood oxygen was about 30. Not sure how she was alive.

Adrenaline actually completely running out would mean you've been in quite a ride

I think it's hilarious that they use GSW as an acronym when "Gun shot wound" is less syllables and faster to say

That one guy who says it's not cold when it's -20⁰: Edit: this is -20⁰c

"sir, you've been shot" got that "this is a Wendy's" energy😂

bro when he said "sir, YOU'VE BEEN SHOT" I went flying

The most unrealistic part of this short was the man admitting his wife was right 😂

Dude has balls of steel, not because he got shot, but because he wanted to tell his wife she was right

I was in the ER one night when some middle aged dude came in with a GSW, all calm like, signs in, sits nearby (his arm is wrapped in a heavy black towel) and starts asking if they legally have to tell the police if he gets treatment. Then asked if anyone in the waiting room would to "Dig the motherfucker out" for $200 cash. The security card finally came over and told him these things a confidential and to please settle down.

"Just a flesh wound" got a whole new level 😂

His wife is gonna love that call!

the most unrealistic part of this is him asking them to tell his wife she was right

This is my mom. Said she had a little cold but refused to go see her doctor. I nagged her into it and he immediately sent her to the hospital. Mom had double pneumonia. 🤦🏾‍♀️

I feel called out....just replace gunshot wound with "I fell off my horse and things ate bending that aren't supposed to"...

“With my legs. Haha. Get it?” 😂

"It's nothing" Famous last words

my ex did the same thing when I went home, showering she comes into the bathroom "Hey, where did all of this blood come from?" "oh it's nothing, I dropped a chainsaw on my leg, it'll be alright" 32 stitches later

"This is so embarrassing..." *Sir you were shot* Edit: Guys 10k likes is a lot

"my wife is so dramatic she gets worried about about the little things..!"

You know this is starting to hurt ... Dies docter:🙄🫨

Reminds me of an EMT interaction I had: EMT: "You're pretty calm for someone having trouble breathing." Me, between wheezes: "Not...my...first...time."

As an ICU nurse, the worst combination of things to be is a mom, wife and nurse 😂 constant state of panic and worry lol

My friend she doesnt need a phone call she needs a tshirt 😂

"can you call my wife and tell her she was right" he's gone insane from the pain

"HOW DID YOU WALK IN HERE?" With ma legs

I freaked out my surgeon once by being too calm and insistent on watching my own surgery. It was only on my hand, needed a tendon repair (don't crash your bike into the back of a car and definitely dont put your hand through their rear brake light). I made her show me the different tendons and how everything was attached, she seemed kinda uncomfortable with how fascinated i was by the inside of my own hand.

I cut my thumn really bad and knew I needed stitches. I went to an urgent care and told the triage nurse about how I had cut myself and that I needed stiches. Now, I'm the type of person who stays really calm when crap is hitting the fan. So, other than the giant bandage on my hand, you never would have known that I was hurt. The triage nurse just smiled and told me that they would be the judge on whether or not I would need stiches in the most condescending tone. I had to wait in the lobby for 40 minutes before they finally brought me into a room, where I waited another 25 minutes. Finally, a nurse came in and grabbed a Band-Aid from the cupboard and asked to see my cut. I took the bandage off and showed the nurse that the entire pad of my thumb was no longer attached and was a big flap of flesh hanging while the darn thing started bleeding again. She dropped the Band-Aid and started freaking out that I was too calm to be this injured. So, lesson learned. Mention how bad the injury is and tell them I'm not a panicer

"With my legs" Nah bro thats crazy 🤯🤯

My friend was shot when teaching his son to hunt, and they casually canoed to the car, and drove to the hospital all chill. So wild. Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.

I once tried to sleep off a complex double fracture of the elbow joint - and when I called the doctor for an appointment I told him the pain was "manageable", so he gave me an appointment 6 hours later. After taking some x-rays he asked me why I didn't come in the prior day when the accident happened, quote: "The pain must have been unbearable!" - and I was like "Yeah, it's why I took some Tylenol"

Every single Rick Riordan character:

Him saying his wife was right, means this man was expecting not to live through this. 😂

Adrenaline is powerful! My friend got into a bad accident and they needed help so she ran to get help. The next day she got up and her foot was swollen. She had broken her foot in the accident and didn’t realize due to the adrenaline. I, on the other hand, have a really high pain tolerance. When I had a heart attack I just thought I had another chest infection but since it happened the night before, too, I thought maybe it’s a reaction to my medication and so I just called my doctor who immediately panicked and told me to hang up and call 911 right away. At first I laughed then he said I mean it! Hang up now and call 911. I called and then decided to walk outside and meet them. They told me that I should stop and sit and wait for the stretcher. I told them I could walk cause I’m ok but they insisted. As soon as we got into the ambulance they hooked me up to this machine and said I was still having a heart attack. It lasted about 1/2 hour according to them. I got wheeled straight into surgery and got a stent put in. Funny thing is, my IV hurt more than the heart attack to me cause I have a needle phobia. Also, I’m an insulin dependent diabetic so I take shots daily, but still am afraid of needles. Lol.

That "sir have you been shot" hit different

Oh... she already knew that she was right 😂

😂...the facial change gets me..nice one.

I love that he took the time to consider he messed up and his wife deserves to know he knows that

My friend's husband was a big man, and he hadn't been feeling well - nothing specific, just generally uncomfortable in his chest & abdomen, sometimes short of breath, etc. His wife kept telling him to go to the ER, and he finally agreed. He had an aortic aneurysm that was THIRTY SEVEN CENTIMETERS, literally pushing his internal organs aside. Rushed into emergency surgery, the surgeons said when they got in there, it was leaking, and a miracle it hadn't blown apart. Apparently there are photos of his open abdomen in a surgical textbook. He survived the surgery but died from a second aortic aneurysm a year or two later.

My father does Rendezvous (aka early 1800s Mountain Man). He came home from one outing with a cold. "I'm okay.... I'm okay.... No, really, I'm fine." A week later, my mother calls crying. He's refusing to go to the hospital. He's got a temp, clammy, labored breathing. I drove over and got right in his face, "Get dressed! You're going to the hospital." He tried to protest. "You....made....mom.... CRY!!" O.o "GET DRESSED! LET'S GO! NOW!" Got him to the hospital.... pneumonia. They said that if he had waited another 12 hours, they wouldn't have been able to save him.

Had a stroke after neck trauma from heavy lifting. My subsequent doctors are logging it into the system like it's a horrifying scenario. I appreciate their effort.

OMG this reminded me when my Fiancee (before we were engaged) never listened to me when I begged him to go to the hospital for his arm. He couldn't straighten it out and everyday it kept moving closer to his chest and became harder to straighten out. And after the second week I said "If you don't go to the hospital soon or now, I will stop being friends" He went into surgery as soon as he walked in and got told if he waited another day, they would need to amputate his arm. I still love that stubborn ass

my dad did this, he literally was felling so bad but didn't told us nothing, he just drove to the er and like half an hour later he calls telling us he is being operated for appendicitis he said on the phone to my mom "hey, uh..come to the er and bring the kids, im getting surgery to remove my appendix"

My husband with his medical care 😂

this is how I imagine a introvert to be like walking so casually with a gunshot wound trying to not make it a huge deal.