I know when I was an infant my mom couldn't get a peice of hair that some how wrapped around my big toe. It actually turneed blue and she could not get it off so she took me to the ER and they got the hair out!
Also my dad a C.O.P.D.'er I'm discovering is a HUGE freaking out can't breath person!!! Can't blame him but he was allways hyper and now that he's having respiratory problems he's NUTS! Ok, not over the top but anyway every now and then but more frequent he'll get bronchitis or I think it's more an exacberation of C.O.P.D. that he needs antibiotics. Anyway, he was sent home with Zithromax and took the one pill that day and at home our power went out. We only have electical administered O2 because he only needs it occasionally not that much at all although he probably should wear it at night anyway. He was CRAZED because he had Levaquin before and that worked faster. No matter what i told him that all these are pills and takes some time to work he was a nervous wreck and was insistant he needed Levaquin. Then his lips were blue and no o2 from no power so he ended up in the ER. I work on med surg at the hospital and yeah I was concerned he was blue but there probably wasn't much to do but he wouldn't listen. So the ER doctor came and my dad is freakin out,"I need levaquin this isn't working" so they gave him Levaquin and then a prescription for some and sent him home. I was a little embaressed but you know they admit people with less severe symptoms so I don't know. I know one time his doctor for the same condition wanted him admitted and he did not want too. Probably didn't want to face up he's really sick. Yes he still smokes. I'm telling you all he has tried so many times. His pulmonoligist even tells me at work he's never met a patient so guity about it and trying so hard but won't kick it.
Anyway, these stories are interesting! Although agravating at least it makes you smile! I had a psych patient faking seizures on med surg and it just drove me bonkers because the md didn't know WHAT to do with her every test was negative then suggest to go to psych and she freaks "I"m NOT crazy!" Oh boy but I have to smile! She was screaming at me then the next day writing notes to me and apolagizing for the way she acted! It was so fustrating but I find myself smiling right now and just shaking my head!
I always love to hear about funky ways people got cellulitis although I mean not that crazy but like if some one's cat bit them, dog bite, and once a poor guy vacationing in like the bahamas and stepped on a conch chell and got a NASTY infection then had to come home early, ew!