Urgent Care

Last night I ended up in Urgent Care with my daughter-in-law because one of my grandsons fell and put his tooth through his bottom lip. He had to get a stitch put in it. It took us over two hours to get in and out of this emergency situation.
The reason that I am writing about this today is not to complain about how long it took us to get service or the fact that the chairs are very uncomfortable and way too close together to entertain three little boys for two hours. No, the reason for this blog is that at 8:30 on a Tuesday night there were more people in that waiting room than there probably were at the movies. I came to find out that there were so many there the night before that they ended up calling an emergency room at a local hospital to come take some of the cases.
The other reason for this writing is the interesting people that you can meet in one of these situations. There were people there who did not feel well and were clearing having some very strong issues with keeping their supper in their stomachs. Some of them had broken bones and some needed stitches like my grandson. There were children waiting for help and elderly also. It was clear that ailments were not to particular this evening.
But the most interesting case was the lady who sat across from me. She was ahead of us to be waited on and so we had a while to enjoy some conversation with each other. She had picked up some poison ivy on her right arm and leg from her garden. Her arm was swollen and giving her a great deal of pain. She was a mother of eight and a grandmother of eighteen. She had been trying to take care of this on her own for a week and was not making much progress, in fact it was getting worse. The thing that was the most interesting about her was that she worked in a hospital and didn't think about going there for help anytime in those last seven days. She waited until that time of night to go to Urgent Care because she didn't think that she could stand it one more minute. People are unique!