Last night, being bored with life in general & craving an adventure, I decided to check out the service at the Dodge Emergency Room. Let me tell you, the place ranks highly!
Speed & Efficiency ****1/2 out of 5
Compassion *****
Service ****1/2
Employee Knowledge & Experience ****1/2
Patient Recognition *****
Satisfaction Level ****1/2
Overall Ranking ****2/3
Now, for the confession. No, there was no heart-attack, no stroke, no broken bones, no flare-up of any of the various ailments I actually do suffer from. It was such a silly, stupid thing to have to visit the emergency room for. I got something in my eye.
I was removing my makeup with a cotton pad, & when I swiped over my right eye, some fibres came off & became lodged in the corner of my eye under the upper eyelid {presumably because I buy the absolute cheapest cotton pads I can find}. After a relatively silent 15 minute struggle trying to remove the jagged boulder from my precious baby blue, I woke up PK for help. He insisted we go to emerg & get professional help.
Timeline:
11:55 pm ~ Rock of Gibraltar wedges in my eye
12:10 am ~ wake up PK
12:20 am ~ decide to go to emerg
12:25 am ~ am laying down in the Wilma Flintstone Reserved Emerg Bed getting attention from compassionate, experienced RN who calls me BY NAME on sight
12:35 am ~ Doctor is called
12:40 am ~ RN explains all the steps that will be taken to blast offending Mount St. Helen's out of my ocular area
12:45 am ~ Doctor arrives & gets right to work {examines, freezes then applies dye to the eye to find gravel pile hiding in my eye}
12:55 am ~ eye area washed by compassionate RN, eye patch is applied {using special, hypo-allergenic adhesive cuz I am a sensitive lady with sensitive skin}, eye drops supplied & released for home
1:07 am ~ am in bed with lights out
Where else would you get that level of competent service that fast? Where else can you walk into emergency & be on a bed instantly? People deride small towns all the time, but I'll tell you something, I'm glad as hell to be living here when shit goes down. Cuz I should be treated like a super-star & get service right away.
You better all get your donations in to the new Dodge Hospital Fund. You never know what calamity will hit me next.
Oh yeah, & be careful when 
using these. They should come with a warning label!
using these. They should come with a warning label!
6 comments:
That's amazing service!
Gee are you fortunate I've satfor 4 hrs with a broken wrist waitng to be seen, let alone ex-rayed!
PS
Hope the eyes nt to uncomfortabe now!
Oh, great use of the new word we like Wilma! It was definitely an 'O Calamity! OOOOOHHHH Disaster' moment.
OOOOOOH it's murder.
I like our 'pital too.
Well after I found out WHY you were there I laughed myself SILLY over it. But we are lucky b/c in S'toon you would have waited for DAYS to get help (literally). Our very own K-town hospital is the 'pital of choice for my pappy when his ailments flare up. I've only visited the place with others (like the commenter above...ahh, wasn't that a good time?!!) and once with the guy who chopped off his finger in my yard.
I was quite stressed at first reading your story, however glad it all worked out, I have one question for you...what are you doing removing your makeup at midnight you should have been asleep for two good hours by then!!
Miss you and glad your see-ers are all cleared up!!
Velvis - you know me, why go to bed when I can be up playing Prairie Scramble on the Corner Gas website?
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