N and I took a trip to the emergency room this morning. About 3:30, she fell out of bed and then hit her bedside table, scraping her chin and getting a small cut above her eyelid. There was hardly any blood and we didn't know if the cut would require stitches. I decided to go ahead and take her in to the emergency room to get checked out. N was very scared at first about going to the hospital because she thought I'd be leaving her there alone; she was shaking like a leaf. There were no other patients there so we walked right in. Well, I walked right in carrying Mammoth N.
A fun admitting nurse helped N feel at ease right away and we walked right in to a room with all eyes on us. N is so cute, everyone wanted to say hello but she was still scared and shy. One of the nurses had a cool bubble pen and blew bubbles that the doctor then caught on all five digits of one hand. They were kind of weird bubbles, very thick and hard to pop.
The doctor then examined the cut and decided he couldn't glue it because it was too close to the eye. He decided he would put a topical anesthetic on the cut and we read books for twenty minutes or so while we waited for it to work. We read a good book called Zen Shorts that had a panda bear named Stillwater.
The ointment didn't work well on the whole cut but N only felt two stitches out of four and it looked like it didn't sting too much. She was super brave throughout the whole hospital ordeal, didn't cry or even whimper. The nurses and doctor were wonderful except one of them thought she was a boy. N made out with several stickers, crayons and a nifty hospital bracelet.
Sounds like you make the hospital staff's day a little more interesting. Great that they all took action when you came in. How could anyone mistake N for a boy? uggg!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Marty. Of course she's a darling, feminine girl! I'll bet they just weren't paying attention to anything except her bravery and not expecting such stoicism from a girl.
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