Today: Break a leg
Once I had a soccer related emergency and went to the hospital.
End of post? In your dreams.
The people on either side of me in the ER had, respectively, a broken nose and several missing fingers. The second resulted from a man falling out of an attic window while cutting something atop a step ladder. Mid fall (out the window), the man snipped a few of his fingers off. Unintentionally, one could assume.
One bed down from Snippets was a child who fell out of a tree and landed on a park bench, rupturing his pancreas. Or was it his spleen? Did I mention it was Fall? Haaaaaaa. It was.
The whole scenario reeked of the Twilight Zone (minus the vampire books); the fact that we were in the middle of nowhere and the hospital itself was the size of my (attached) pinky didn’t help.
I probably didn’t get the attention I needed from the ER doc that night, and I am pretty sure the dude with the broken nose probably diagnosed and discharged himself, but in the world of triage, missing digits and ruptured innards probably trump a broken-ish ankle. And if that’s what it takes to get some attention, I will gladly take my spleen and fingers, exit the spotlight and fade into the background. Or onto the internet.
Also On Tap for Today:
- Taking a new class at a new gym; it involves a dance off (stay tuned…)
- Try to finish reading Julie & Julia in time to catch the movie on the Cape this weekend
- Congratulate Bad Elizabeth and Tiffany on passing their nursing board exams!
Have you ever severed a limb to get attention? Me neither, honest. What sort of wackiness have you encountered lately?
