I was watching Live with Kelly and Michael this morning. Kelly was talking about how she received an emergency phone call. Turns out her daughter, Lola, had fallen in school playing frisbee and was being taken to the hospital. X-rays showed nothing was broken, so they left. On the way home, the hospital called and said to come back. They had looked at the wrong x-rays. Lola's arm was broken! Crazy! One more story of hospital error.
Anyways, that reminded me of my son's school emergency a few weeks ago. The nurse called and said he had gotten his finger stuck in a water bottle. You know the stainless steel water bottles with a plastic screw on cap that has a flap over the hole you drink out of? Yeah, his middle finger on his right hand, was stuck in that hole. Apparently, the nurse couldn't get his finger out. She had tried icing it and using some sort of lubrication, but it didn't work. His finger was starting to swell, so she called the EMT. Driving to the school, I had visions of them transporting him to a hospital to amputate his finger, and my running in yelling at them to stop! lol.
When I arrived at the school, there was a small firetruck and an ambulance parked in front. Gathered in the nurses office was a whole group of people: my poor son who looked like he was about ready to cry, the nurse, the fireman, 2 EMT's, the janitor, a teacher's aide, and then the gym teacher came in. Luckily, they had gotten the cap off his finger shortly before I arrived. The EMT's ended up cutting the cap, not his finger, off. I was super glad they were able to get the cap off without resorting to drastic measures! He caused quite a commotion at the school! Everyone was pretty worried about him.
I'm not exactly sure how he ended up getting his finger stuck. He didn't offer too much information other than it was after lunch. He'd stuck his finger in and out of the whole a couple of times, and then it got stuck. He told his teacher who took him to the nurse.
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Anyways, that reminded me of my son's school emergency a few weeks ago. The nurse called and said he had gotten his finger stuck in a water bottle. You know the stainless steel water bottles with a plastic screw on cap that has a flap over the hole you drink out of? Yeah, his middle finger on his right hand, was stuck in that hole. Apparently, the nurse couldn't get his finger out. She had tried icing it and using some sort of lubrication, but it didn't work. His finger was starting to swell, so she called the EMT. Driving to the school, I had visions of them transporting him to a hospital to amputate his finger, and my running in yelling at them to stop! lol.
When I arrived at the school, there was a small firetruck and an ambulance parked in front. Gathered in the nurses office was a whole group of people: my poor son who looked like he was about ready to cry, the nurse, the fireman, 2 EMT's, the janitor, a teacher's aide, and then the gym teacher came in. Luckily, they had gotten the cap off his finger shortly before I arrived. The EMT's ended up cutting the cap, not his finger, off. I was super glad they were able to get the cap off without resorting to drastic measures! He caused quite a commotion at the school! Everyone was pretty worried about him.
I'm not exactly sure how he ended up getting his finger stuck. He didn't offer too much information other than it was after lunch. He'd stuck his finger in and out of the whole a couple of times, and then it got stuck. He told his teacher who took him to the nurse.
Kids!
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