ER

Our trip to the ER last week was courtesy of Mandy and her toe. The week before it was me and my severed middle finger.

I got a call from Mandy saying that the nurse couldn't get a hold of Jeff and that she might have broken her toe. I might add that she did break a toe a couple of years ago.

I didn't have the car, I called Jeff and no one knew where he was, he didn't respond to being paged. So, I woke up Lily from her nap, grabbed some milk and beans and we ran to the bus stop. Lily and I rode the bus to the hospital to find Jeff or the car, not knowing if Jeff had been located and picked up Mandy or if he was still in the dark. So Lily and I walked to Jeff's office where they tell me he had been apprised of the situation and had gone to get Mandy. Lily and I walked out to the parking lot, this taking about 10 minutes as she is not always cooperative. We noticed that that our car was in the parking lot. So we went to the ER and found our family.

Jeff and Mandy were in a tiny room. I knew that Jeff was very busy and had a lot on his plate so I offered to stay with Mandy while he finished up. That is how I ended up in a tiny room full of things Lily cannot touch for two and a half hours.

Mandy was in a wheel chair, ice on her toe, and that pretty much took up the floor space in the room. So after we colored every page of the spiral notebook and read all of our books that I keep in the diaper bag we moved on the plan B. I blew up rubber gloves and we used them as balls, pretended they were chickens, and popped them. One time Lily accidentally squeezed the rubber glove balloon too hard and all the air came out, she looked at the glove, and then looked all around her as if trying to find the balloon or whatever had been inside the glove to make it so big.

Mandy's toe is not broken, but still swollen. She had to miss a volleyball game in Soul Korea. Now this week she really wants to go the the JV tournament in Tokyo, but after practice yesterday her toe was swollen and hurting again. She tried to trick or treat on crutches. She wants to play in this tournament so badly, but her toe isn't healed. Tonight she is trying to practice with the team again, this time with the toe wrapped. They have a three hour practice. I am not sure if i should put my foot down and say no. I don't want her to permanently injure her toe, but Jeff thinks she should be able to make the decision herself.

We will see.