'tis but a flesh wound
this is vera, reporting -on location- from the tee dot oh dot, with late, but breaking news...
hmmm, maybe i should say late but lacerating news...
upon my arrival into toronto, a bumpy and nauseating experience i might add, i was greeted by my best friend with a warm and welcoming hug. excitedly we exchanged pleasantries and then she decided to inform me that we needed to "go to the hospital"... while disembarking from the transit bus she flipped on her flip-flops and her knees met the curb with incredible force not only scraping it quite nastily, but ripping it entirely open by about 2 and 1/2 centimetres!! her blood stained pant-leg was more than enough for me to see in order to agree that, YES, we did indeed need to go to see the doctor. finding the rental car office we had a lovely chat with the rental-car-dude and he gave us a free upgrade from a chevrolet cobalt to a pontiac G6 -pictures to soon follow- sweet!! a small detour back to her place to drop suitcases off and let her dog out, we proceeded en route to the nearest hospital... where that would be, we didn't know!! toronto is a huge city and in this huge city, you'd *think* they would have sufficient signage to find any hospital at all, at any time and at any point within the city. "there's no H!" "i can't see an H anywhere!" finally, after asking some very nice passer-bys @ approximately 01:54 we found the elusive H and a nearly deserted emergency room. she checked into triage and then we were called in to wait inside the inner sanctum of the ER. surely soon we would see a doctor and get back to her place to get a restful sleep. an hour and half later she finally gets called into the see the one on-call physician to get 3 beautiful stitches! erm... i will not mention that i almost passed out from seeing the laceration in her left knee. if you've never seen the internal workings of a knee, you just might not want to either... *turns white*... we arrived back at her place around 04:00... the sun beginning to rise, we went to bed and rested... what an adventure!!
hmmm, maybe i should say late but lacerating news...
upon my arrival into toronto, a bumpy and nauseating experience i might add, i was greeted by my best friend with a warm and welcoming hug. excitedly we exchanged pleasantries and then she decided to inform me that we needed to "go to the hospital"... while disembarking from the transit bus she flipped on her flip-flops and her knees met the curb with incredible force not only scraping it quite nastily, but ripping it entirely open by about 2 and 1/2 centimetres!! her blood stained pant-leg was more than enough for me to see in order to agree that, YES, we did indeed need to go to see the doctor. finding the rental car office we had a lovely chat with the rental-car-dude and he gave us a free upgrade from a chevrolet cobalt to a pontiac G6 -pictures to soon follow- sweet!! a small detour back to her place to drop suitcases off and let her dog out, we proceeded en route to the nearest hospital... where that would be, we didn't know!! toronto is a huge city and in this huge city, you'd *think* they would have sufficient signage to find any hospital at all, at any time and at any point within the city. "there's no H!" "i can't see an H anywhere!" finally, after asking some very nice passer-bys @ approximately 01:54 we found the elusive H and a nearly deserted emergency room. she checked into triage and then we were called in to wait inside the inner sanctum of the ER. surely soon we would see a doctor and get back to her place to get a restful sleep. an hour and half later she finally gets called into the see the one on-call physician to get 3 beautiful stitches! erm... i will not mention that i almost passed out from seeing the laceration in her left knee. if you've never seen the internal workings of a knee, you just might not want to either... *turns white*... we arrived back at her place around 04:00... the sun beginning to rise, we went to bed and rested... what an adventure!!
posted by Vera at 5/19/2006 09:29:00 a.m.
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