Since we are telling ER stories, here is my favorite.
First of all, my name is James - that's an important detail for later in the story. But a few years back, before I had kids, I was taking some drugs of the performance enhancing nature. It was awesome...my gains were through the roof and I was bigger than I ever had been. My employer at the time offered a health screening that could help lower your premium. Me, being in my mid 20's and in great shape, figured I would I would pass this screening with flying colors and my premium would drop.
Everything was going fine until the finger prick blood test. My HDL cholesterol came back at an alarmingly low level...it believe it was 7. The nurse panicked and told me to see my primary ASAP. My primary wasn't too concerned and said that I can't trust those tests and he was sure that it was a mistake and that I was fine. Turns out that it was a mistake because a more thorough blood test showed that it was actually at 4. Then my primary was freaking out and said that I was at extreme risk for a heart attack, stroke or aneurism...like it could happen at any second.
Fast forward a few weeks, I was off the juice and my numbers were starting to creep up to a better level, but were still dangerously low. I was at the gym working out when I got hit with the worst headache of my life out of nowhere. It was so bad that I had to call my wife from the gym and she drove me to the ER. I legit thought I was having an aneurism and thought I was dying. I was in my room at the ER waiting for my CT scan when I started to hear some noise outside of my room. Doctors and nurses came running and I could hear the panic in their voices. They kept saying, "Stay with us James!" or "Come on James, you got this." Not being in the proper state of mind from my excruciating headache, I started to believe that I was having some outer body experience and that I was actually dying out there. It was weird...
Turns out that there was just some old fart named James who went into cardiac arrest literally right outside of my room. They ended up resuscitating him. My CT scan came back clean and my random headache went away. But I'll always remember thinking I was dying and going into a bit of a panic...