Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Another Trip to The Emergency Room
All in all, our family has not had many trips to the ER (knock on wood), which has been fantastic. But we have been babysitting our neighbor's rat named Drake. All our kids, even Shasta, are so amazed by this little creature. They watch it for hours. Of course, McKayLeigh wanted to touch it and was poking her fingers in the cage. Drake bit her finger...really good. She started crying and we noticed blood EVERYWHERE! I think the finger tips bleed a lot more than other places on the body. We put pressure on it of course and tried to stop the bleeding but it wasn't working. So, I drove her to the ER. After 4 1/2 hours sitting in the waiting room, her finger stopped bleeding on its own. The doctors even had the nerve to ask me, 'Was her finger bleeding at all?' YES!! So after all that, it just looks like she has a small paper cut on her finger tip and got just a good ol' regular bandaid. I am glad it wasn't worse, but I was kinda hoping for stitches with all the drama that came with last night. Oh well...we are grateful it is all good.
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Wow, I'm impressed you brought a rat into your home! I'm very glad McKayLeigh is okay!
Boy... someone could bleed to death in an emergency room. Those are really the worst, most inefficient places ever. I'm glad McKayLeigh is okay. A friend of mine loves rats. I don't know if I ever will.
I don't like the rat, either. Our friends had a family emergency and that is the only reason I took him in. And yes...the ER is nothing like they show on TV. Nay Nay!!
The Rat's name was Drake? Wonderful. I thought you were talking about my kid for a second. I was trying to remember if you had watched him for me recently? haha! He is a little rat sometimes.
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