So we are in the car and headed to the nearest Emergency Room. Melissa is driving very fast (with her HAZARDS on) and I am sitting in the passenger seat holding my hand and crying and moaning. Please note that I don't recall swearing (very loudly, anyway) as William was in the car.
Again, this moment seems like a distant memory, but I do remeber begging Melissa to NOT take me, as I knew the pain that I would be enduring. I remember lots of tears (okay, so I am a baby when it comes to pain. We'll see how much you cry when YOU get the end of one of your digts WHACKED off in a door).
Meliss is doing a GREAT job of keeping me calm and alert. I did feel the urge several times to pass out, but I fought that. It was ALL because of Melissa. She really came through for me in a MAJOR way!
So we pull into Trinity Medical's ER parking lot. It's funny, as we were right at this same hospital a little over a year ago when William was brought into this world.
We get in to the ER and Melissa talks to some guy at the front desk. We are asked to take a seat and a nurse would be right out. Will is having a great time. Melissa was just about to change him, so not only is he wearing only a diaper, it's a DIRTY diaper at that!
Melissa takes my phone (which she had snagged on her way out) and asked me who I wanted her to call. We decided on Victoria as she was the closest. I guess Melissa spoke to her, because by that time (I guess it was about 2 minutes) a very nice nurse came and looked at my pinky. He then wheeled me into a trauma room in a wheelchair.
I got up onto the examining table and was soon surrounded by a doctor (Dr. Neelum, who I believe I called Dr. Neela all night. Dr. Neela is one of the characters on ER) and several nurses and staff people.
Melissa and Will were escorted into the room with me. A very nice nurse (or adoctor or an ER intern) even fetched William a diaper and a bottle of Pedialite.
The next thing I knew I was being asked many questions at the same time getting an IV on my left hand, a tetnus shot in my right shoulder (which hurt for about 4 days AFTERWARDS), and then, my favorite, the meds to numb my finger.
I remember Melissa asking (God, I love this woman) Dr. Neelum about the part of my finger she had brought. That's right, MySpace readers, Melissa ACTUALLY picked up the piece of my finger from the floor of the garage and placed it in a baggie of ice and brought it with her. We actually joked about it being a piece of carrot. This is only funny to the MILLIONS of people who watched Friends and remember Monicahad cut of one of Chandler's toes and brought up a piece of carrot instead of his toe.
Needless to say it was NOT a piece of carrot, but according to Dr. Neelum because the tip didn't contain any blood vessells, it was not viable. But I love Melissa for bringing it anyway!!
Next it's time to get cleaned up. They poured some stuff on my left hand (remember, I was using it to hold my hurt hand and it was covered in blood) to clean it off. It was at this point that things start to get a bit crazy. The IV they inserted is now slowly filling my veins with delicious and wonderful Morphine.
I'm in the very early stages of the drug taking effect, so I am kinda going in and out. Next Dr. Nelum begins to inject my pinky with drugs to numb my finger. And let me tell you, this HURT! I mean it was SSSOO painful!
She needs to numb the finger so she can get it cleaned up. So, after I think was 3 seperate injections (OWIE), the pain in my finger is slowly going away. So then she starts to clean up my finger.
Okay, no big deal, it's numb, right?! Well, SOME of it is. She starts cleaning a part of my finger that isn't quite numb and I am going MAD with pain. Chris can attest to this (as at this time he has been in the room with me for a while. I think we actually had a pretty fun conversation. I still don't remember ALL that I said, but I'm sure he'll write a blog ALL about it) and I think I was even squeezing his hand. I think he might have a bruise.
It's at this point that I literally do not remember ANYTHING until I was wheeled out to the car. I don't remember them putting the bandage on, I don't remember Victoria being there, I don't remember much of anything.
So, there it is, the visit to the ER...
I want to say RIGHT now that my wife, Melissa, really came through for me. She was there for me through ALL of that! I am a BIG baby, and she really kept me calm and alert and had the BEST positive attitude than ANYONE, and I know that inside she was crying and worrying. My wife can REALLY make a crisis like that AWESOME!
Also, to Chris and Victoria who came up and sat with Melissa and helped watch William, and who came into the Trauma Room. I love you both SO much for that!!
Alright, stay tuned for MORE of my exciting adventures.....
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