Monday, September 24, 2018

Jasmin's adventure, by Jasmin

Guess what?

I had to go to the ER.   (I'm fine now)

So the story is I was upgrading the hamsters cage and I was cutting a hole in the bottom of the plastic box with a craft knife and the knife slipped and I cut my ring finger (It didn't hurt that much) so I had some experience with cuts and new to put pressure on the cut to stop the bleeding. I ran/ walked to the bathroom and washed the cut and it didn't stop bleeding. So eventually I showed the cut to mom. She took one look and said "WE ARE GOING TO THE HOSPITAL" and that shocked me because it really didn't hurt... so then we went to the hospital but the funny thing is the Grab driver got lost!  By then my finger hurt from pressing hard for a long time. Anyway, we got there and the hospital was pretty much empty because it was night time. Anyway, we found the ER. So we checked in waited for a while then a nurse called us over to a semi-closed off area, she checked my cut and wrapped up my finger then led us to corridor into a more closed of area. I sat on the bed and the nurse went off to do something. While she was gone I noticed a shelf in front of me filled with medical stuff. And the funny thing is there was a sign that read "SKIN STAPLER" -- that is the number one way to terrify your patients especially when they are expecting to get stitches! Which by chance I was. Then a different nurse came in and checked my finger (taking off the bandage) asked me how I got it, then wrapped up my finger again! He left than a different nurse looked again at my finger and left then the 2nd nurse came back and said he needs to get a doc to see if they need to get a specialist to do the stitches. He left and came back with a doctor. The doctor looked at my cut and cleaned it to get a better look. He decided to glue my finger together. I was very relieved because I did not want my finger get sewn together. He glued it, wrapped it up in a waterproof bandage and said don't straighten the finger out, and sent us home. When we got home it was 11:00pm so we went straight to bed.

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