Monday, May 7, 2012

Know Your Hospitals

It may benefit you to know the fastest route to the hospital.  You will, undoubtedly, have to take someone to the hospital.  Our friend came up from Florida and they left to go skating, not long afterwards my rollerblader comes running through the house and says come with us to the hospital.  It took us a minute to figure out where we had seen a hospital and when we got there, we waited for a while, and now the problem is a broken ankle swelling inside a skate.  How do we get it out?  Cut the skate? Hell no! Let's just get 3 people to try and pull the skate off of a gigantic swollen, broken ankle.

Next time we were at a skate park and our friend was dropping in and clipped the coping (all of this you'll figure out later) and he dislocated his shoulder.  Another friend broke his arm, my rollerblader called on the way to the hospital, they put a cast on him, my rollerblader drove his car 2.5 hours back to his house while I followed behind them.

Just in case, you should also encourage health insurance so you don't have to go any further than the general first aid and by this I mean trying to stitch them up with dental floss, gluing them back together, or making them a cast out of duct tape, although it does fix everything, right?  Actually, they generally won't go to the doctor unless something is broken or dislocated and dangling.

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