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i had a seizure in the middle of a business meeting and passed out. when i woke up, the paramedics were there and they took me to the hospital via ambulance. they did cat scans but never figured out what was wrong.

i was just working so hard and was so stressed out with high blood pressure i guess.

Hmm...I nearly cut off my pinkie toe when I was about a year and a half old (and I remember it!) and had to be taken to the ER. Ditto when I was 7 or 8 and fractured my arm in the middle of the night.

I hung out in a hospital quite a bit when my stepmom worked in one.

I was there when my step-grandmother passed away, when my stepmother had kidney stones, visited when my SIL had her first child, and was in the delivery room when my stepsister gave birth.

When I lived in Philly I went a few times for lab work...getting STD testing and such (my OBGYN's office was right across the street from the hospital..)

We went to the hospital for our NT scan at 12 weeks, and for a tour of the maternity floor last weekend.

So a lot I guess!

I had daily seizures for a couple of years (anyone who doesn't know you sees, they call an ambulance, so I spent a LOT of time in ERs), and an anti-seizure med had me hospitalized for a month (most severe reaction to the stuff in over a decade), and then I had my first bout of amnesia.... That's on top of a breast cancer scare (just fibro-cystic breast disease, though they still insisted on a lumpectomy) and the couple of things that happened when I was little (cracked my skull on the basement floor, two eye surgeries, one hospitalization for diarrhea, and a few less memorable things.) I trusted doctors until the seizure med hospitalization, where they kept making me take stuff that it specifically said on my chart NOT to give me, and I was discharged purely because they thought one more pathogen would kill me (and that I was more likely to catch something there than in barracks.) I ended up with hemorrhaged eyes two days later, so I went to the ER for that, too, and Bell's Palsy the next week, which my mom dragged me in for (well, I couldn't close my left eye, so I suppose it was justified.)

ETA: Also was there when a friend died, visited my grandpa after his second heart attack. attended a friend's birth and went to some of her son's early appointments, and visited a few elderly relatives.

I've had a couple of surgeries, quite a few MRIs, and to visit newborn babies and their mommas.

only to deliver my baby and visit friends who had babies (2 times)

Split my lip open and had a seizure when I was a baby. And I was the victim of a hit and run when I was 9. So, mostly accidents over illness.