WHAT WAS I DOING---LATE ON A THURSDAY afternoon, mindlessly watching an old black and white, cops-'n-robbers, shoot-'em-up movie on TV? It was so unlike me!
Before you leap to any conclusions, however, or go judging me on my lack of industriousness, or my lousy choice of viewing material, I'll have to tell you that there weren't many options there in the hospital waiting room. I was relieved to quit those theatrics and enter into the real-life, docs-'n-nurses, shoot-'em-up, stitch-'em-up drama going on in the emergency room.
But, of course, that was a quite unlikely occupation for me as well on a Thursday afternoon. Hanging around a hospital ER just to watch the goings-on is not something I'd ever be inclined to do on a whim; but since I had to haul three persons there--following a collision of two cars and a seventy-mile round trip to collect the inhabitants of the one car--I did prefer to watch the live action.
Later I was not able to say, "Officer, I heard a shot...," but I did witness three of them being fired-- er, administered; and there were five stitches sewn.
It's something I had never seen before--a man sewing a fine seam upon a nose. It was rather fascinating, but certainly not something I'd wish to ever see again.
In fact, I never wish to see the inside of an emergency room again, though that may be asking quite a bit. And since I'm being greedy with my requests anyway, I'll just add this: I don't wish to ever spend an afternoon hauling my daughter (and two friends) to any kind of medical facility--not ever on a Thursday, not ever on any day of the week--never ever again on her birthday!
Fortunately, upon leaving the hospital two hours later, everyone was in good enough condition to enjoy a birthday dinner. Even I.
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Oh dear, what happened? Hope all is well now, or as well as can be expected.
They had just crested a hill and there was traffic backed up from someone waiting to make a left-hand turn (or else a stopped school-bus, they don't remember which). A car came over the hill behind them and plowed into the rear-end of David's car--totaling it and giving them all face wounds (mostly minor except for David's sister--who had a gash on her nose). All got x-rays and tetanus shots in the ER and then the stitches for David's sister. It could have been a lot worse!
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