Getting Sick at Work

Yup! I had pericarditis last year. horrible, horrible experience. I was 22 at the time and thought I was going to die. For a little while I thought my manager thought I was joking.

A few years ago, I had a severe allergy reaction to a new make up product. My eyes and face were very swollen (could barely open my eyes), as the night progressed, it kept getting worse. Unfortunately, that night was a full moon in the ICU, with traumas coming left and right...I had the only open bed. Called the House supervisor to let him know I needed to leave, his response: "It doesn't look so bad....walk it off" :nuke:

Thankfully, my charge nurse and my fellow nurses stood by me and I was able leave to the ER.:hug:

Not as a nurse, but I did end up in the ER after an allergic reaction to what I ate during my brake. It was not really how I wanted to spend my New Year's Eve lol

Twice:

SVT and unable to vagal myself down.

Migraine with TIA symptoms.

I usually wind up in the ER after all of my shifts...

Oh yes! Bad asthmatic and I've landed myself in a trauma bay now and then - - always kinda weird when it's your own ER. Last time I was the trauma nurse too - that got interesting....

Once but I was OK after I got home and rested.

I never have. I do remember a nurse at one hospital I worked at that started having the one sided weakness, etc during her shift. When to the ER and found out this 20-something year old was having a stroke. She asked to be admitted to her home unit.

I was passing a kidney stone, and my DON drove me to the hospital herself!

I had to call my DON to come replace me at 1AM (she wasn't happy!!), my gall-bladder blew and I had to go in for surgery. At first she thought I was joking, but after the surgery I had to let her know I would be out of work for 3 weeks, she figured I wasn't.

Oh yes, fell in a wet floor. leople probably thought it wasn't anything big, but besides a knot on my head and a sore back, I had a very rare post traumatic cataract form immediately. If you hit your head that hard, not a good situation!

Yep BP of 200/101 massive headache, couldn't walk straight, couldn't talk straight have a hx of htn and knew my BP had been slowly creeping up despite meds. My charge nurse made me go to the ER. BP decreased in ER and sent home

One week later feeling awesome on new BP meds. In a patient's room distracting patient from painful dressing change. Next thing I know I'm sitting on the floor. My BP was 90/50. Trip to the ER. Lots of IV fluids later I was sent home and told I was a wee bit too sensitive to beta blockers.