Emergency?

Friday night myself, the wife and the kids traveled up to "The Blast" to watch a soccer game. The company my wife works for, VS-Hydro, has a soccer team so we thought it would be fun to watch them play. After talking to a couple of players and learning that last time they lost by 10 points I really thought it would be fun to watch. They looked pretty good, but still lost by 5 points, which is much better than 10, but still a loss. They reminded me of my volleyball team in the Spring Grove Power League where we won 1 game the entire season. We weren't terrible, it was just that everyone else was that much better.

So after the game we walked over to talk to them and well poke a little fun. That is when Jackson decided to put his hood over his face and walk around. Well he walked right into a steel beam and busted his forehead open. I ran over and picked him up and put my hand on his forehead to try to slow the bleeding. It was really really bleeding. The staff at the Blast brought me over some ice and a band aid that I cut to make a butterfly band aid. His head was still bleeding some we called our doctor, did I mention this was 11:30pm on a Friday night. Well after gettign the answering service and then getting the doctor to call us back he initially agreed to meet us at his office at 12:30am. He was at Memorial Hospital seeign a baby at the time, but would come to the office as soon as he was done. Well at 12:15 am he calls back and suggests we take Jack to the emergency room because he got a few more calls and probably wouldn't be able to see us until 2:30am. We say ok and take him over to the emergency room, luckily my dad was in town for a Funeral so we left Mack at the house with him.

We check into the emergency room at 12:30am. The place is packed. So we patiently wait and wait and wait and wait. Finally, around 4:15am my wife says she is driving over to Memorial Hospital to check out the wait there.

She comes back and says there are only 5 people in the emergency room there. So I check with the nurse at York Hospital about our wait. She tells me there are 5 people ahead of me and one of the people has been waiting for 8 hours. 8 hours? So I tell her I want to check out and that we are leaving.

We arrive at Memorial Hospital at 4:45am and register there. There are a few people in the waiting room, maybe 3 or 4. Finally at 6:00am they calls us back. The doctor comes in and takes off my band aid, wakes Jackson up and says that they are going to put a couple of steri-strips on his head along with some Medical Super Glue. So they put the strips on and Glue his head shut, which by the way was still bleeding. We finally arrive home at a littel past 7:00am. What a long night.

But I have a question, what constitutes an emergency? There were people in the York Emergency room jsut sitting there sleeping. To me, if I was comfortable enough to sleep I would come back some other time and sleep at home. Wouldn't you?