ER Visit
Last Friday the boys were outside playing with some friends. Al and I were in the house talking about our day. When all of a sudden Radar our dog started to freak out and wanting to go outside. We didn’t know what was wrong with him. All of a sudden I hear this horrendous scream. I turn around and Patrick is coming through the door with blood all over his foot.I raced over and picked him up to look at the foot and there is a huge gash on the side and bottom of his foot. I handed him to Al and grabbed a towel to wrap around his foot to stop the bleeding. I grab my keys and we were out the door to the ER with Patrick screaming that he was going to die. We get to the hospital and rush in with Patrick still screaming. We sign him and in and proceed to wait. Unfortunatley to our disadvantage a young girl about 7 is being rushed in behind us with a 3rd degree burn all down her arm. They rushed her right into the ER thank goodness. After and hour wait we were put in the examination room. The nurse took the towel off to access the situation. Meanwhile Patrick has calmed down some. The doctor comes in who I have to tell you was awesome. He looked at the gash and told us what he was going to do. He leaves the room and Al steps out to call Memere to update her on the situation. When Al comes back into the room Patrick starts to ask me questions on what was going to happen. So I explained to him that they were going to come in with a gauze with some medicine and put it on his boo boo to take the pain away. He says, “Then what will they do?” So I proceed to explain that they will give him a little shot. He says, “In my arm?” I say no not in your arm. He gets this look of shear terror and mouth wide open as it can go and yells in my boo boo? I tell him no just near it. This calms him a little. Then he wants to know what else is going to happen. So I told him that they would clean it really good, but he won’t feel anything. Then after that they’ll stitch it up. He asked me what stitches were and I explained that they would sew the boo boo closed. He yells, “They’re going to make more holes in me!” Thank goodness the nurse came in to put the medicine on so we wouldn’t have to answer anymore questions. The nurse told us to call her in 20 minutes to remove the gauze. No sooner than the nurse walked out Patrick asked how many more minutes. I told him 20 he said, “No, how many more?” this went on every minute that passed until they removed the gauze. Then the doctor came with two nurses. One to hold each of Patrick’s leg in case he tried to move. The doctor gave Patrick his shot which he didn’t feel because of the earlier medicine. After the shot was given he started to clean the wound. Patrick calmly laid on the bed watching what the doctor was doing. To which the doctor asked the nurse if she gave the ativan to the right patient. Patrick was doing so good that both nurses didn’t need to be in the room. After the doctor finished stitching him up he showed Patrick how to count how many stitches he had in his foot.
