Last night was amazing…sounds like the beginning of a bubble gum beach romance book. Anyway, it was awesome. I spent the night in the ER following Raquels friend Karenina and she explained more to me and I got to see more. The ED has two rooms where children can go, the first I have previously mentioned, it is more like an urgent care and the second is for more serious illnesses like seizures. We were in the second room, talking with a patient who I believe had had a febrile seizure who was sharing a bed (in the US we don’t even share rooms let alone beds) with a 32week premie who has hydrocephalus (huge head) and has been laying in the ED for a week waiting for a space to open up in neonatology which is full. Anyway, we were in there when in rolls a kid/man (my guess would be about 18y.o.) with 4 gunshot wounds. The wheel him right up next to the girl trached on a vent in the middle bed (only three beds fit across the room) and start to save his life. The trauma team got right to locating the bullets, putting in a chest tube to drain the blood out of his lungs and getting him breathing. Last I saw on the x-rays he still had one lodged in his hip and would need to go for surgery and one had gone through (two of the wounds), I don’t know about the other one. Of course we see this sort of thing in the US (not in peds, but in the trauma bays), but it is so separated from the rest of the emergency room because we deem it too traumatizing for children to see, but when there is only one room, everything goes into that room and gets taken care of right there. The family wasn’t crying hysterically like they typically do in the US…maybe they have seen this before, maybe they were unable to grasp the gravity of the situation, I don’t know, but only a lot of drawn faces, not a single tear…maybe they are just made of tougher stuff.
On to happier things HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!! I am beyond upset that I’m not with my husband on his birthday, so upset that I had to go out and buy myself shoes and a couple new shirts…shoes fix most woes, but this one needed shirts too – seems very shallow after writing about a kid with 4 gunshot wounds…
Tonight we are going to see the crowning of the queen which is part of the festivities leading up to carnival.
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