emergency room

while chilling after church on sunday, makayla and ethan were playing rough as usual. it is always in matter of a split second that fun enters disaster zone. ethan was sitting on a blanket when makayla decided to pull it out under him. he then fell and hit his face on the couch.

he then cried this cry that all mothers know that he's seriously hurt so i jump out of my seat to see what happened. sure enough, ethan was spewing blood. when he hit his face, he bit his lower lip so hard that it made a significant cut - not one of those little thing that happens when you chew your food funky.

i called the pediatrician here (you can call your dr. direcly on his cell phone - how crazy is that??) and he thought that i should take him to the ER to make sure there's nothing serious.

so off to our adventure in Krakow hospital for the first time.

we drove 25 min to the Polish American Children's Hospital - though there was nothing American about it - no signs in English or anything. It must have been started by an american, but that's about it. anyhow, i enter with ethan while joe parked. do i know the word "emergency room"? ofcourse not. but figured that some of those long words are similar in polish, i walked over to the store owner and say "gdzie jest emergencia?" - "where is emergencia?" - WRONG! they looked at me like what are you talking about?? - so I try different versions of it. "emergencianem?" "emergenski?" one of the lady looked at ethan and said "osatearejh lakhlkh?" and i was like "uh-huh." then pointed me to the right direction :)

we then managed registration and waited in the waiting room. we were seen by a nurse and then a doctor who decided ethan would need just one stitch. it was painful to watch the needle go in his mouth but ethan was brave and strong :) yay for ethan!

overall, it was a pleasant experience, though i was acting all freaky b/c all the trash cans with all kinds of contagious looking things didn't even have lids on it. i was screaming "DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING!!!!!" to ethan and mak. joe was like "it's cleaner than i thought." i was like "it's exactly what i imagined - tolerably clean but gloomy. " so now i know where to go when emergency strikes again - and ethan is already registered in the computer so that's good news. or is it?