A good few years ago
I had a very bad asthma attack, it came on fairly suddenly. After being driven at high speeds to A & E by a friend I went straight to the desk. Once I had wheezed that it was my asthma, the lady behind the window at reception got straight off her chair and helped me through to the doctors. Which is of course the way it should be, it would have been dreadful to wait it out like yourself.

p.s. On a side note about seeing the doctors and nurses panicking, many many years ago my GP visited me at home because of my asthma. It must have been fairly bad because he called an ambulance sharpish. After waiting for 5 minutes the doctor became anxious and kept checking the window, becoming more frantic by the minute. He kept saying to my dad 'Its not here yet, it should be here.'
(muzzvsworld, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 2:25, 1 reply)

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I'm glad that you had a better A&E experience than me! The receptionist must have been a temp or something the night I went in. Sitting there in the waiting room was one of the scariest experiences of my life, I was just convinced I was going to die before they saw me. Normally my asthma attacks ease a little once I see the blue flashing lights of the ambulance or once I get to the hospital because I know they're going to sort me out and I stop panicking (for those of you who don't have asthma, panicking just makes it so much worse but it's bloody hard not to panic when you can't breath). When I was sat there in the waiting room I just got more and more panicky once it became apparent that I wasn't going to see the triage nurse until everyone else in the waiting room had their turn first
(mmm....beer, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 12:51, closed)

Damn right about the panic
However the more you think about the effects of it the more you are likely to panic! Glad you got through it, here's hoping that mistake wasn't made another time.
(muzzvsworld, Mon 15 Mar 2010, 23:12, closed)