Yep...another visit to the hospital!

The foreigners were taking a little break last week playing Monopoly in Aaron and Kelly's room when one of our girls shows up at their window huffing and puffing, crying out, "Angel has hurt his head, blood is everywhere, come quick!" I ran out of the room, bolted downstairs where five year old Angel sat with his mom applying pressure to his head. There was blood running down his neck, face and on his clothes. I quickly inspected the head wound of the screaming child and saw that it was a small, fairly deep wound. They told me he slipped, fell and rammed into the door frame as he was running into his room. Now what...hospital and stitches or pressure and wait. Well, into our little moto furgon we went and Aaron whisked us away to one of the local state hospitals. What a sight! A bunch of people were waiting in the ER. Because we had blood and gauze on the head, they let us in first. I was wondering what I would experience inside. We went into this dirty little room that said "Topical" on the sign and then waited for the Dr. He quickly showed up, inspected the wound and then gave me a list of supplies I would need to go purchase at a local pharmacy. Out I went and found the hospital pharmacy, waited in line to be told what items they had, waited in line again at a different spot to pay for them, waited in line again to pick the items up. Oops, they didn't have the suture we needed, better go to another pharmacy across the street. Picked up what we needed, headed back into the hospital, handed the items to the Dr. Then he told me I needed to go and pay for the procedure. Out I go again, wait in line again at a different place to pay for the procedure. Back I go into the hospital, hand the receipt to the Dr. By now, sure I was good for the money, he had already stitched up Angel, and we were good to go!  Another exciting end to our day. So sorry I don't have pictures of this either, it was already dark,  I was in a hurry and didn't grab the camera, but I hope you can get just a small picture of what it is like to go to the hospital around here.

Here is Angel the next morning after his stitches