I also like...

...practicing my doctoring skills.

I do not know why calamity seems to befall our suite, but I am just glad I am always right in the middle of it without being directly affected by it. It started with Kinley having appendicitis and needing to go to the emergency room for an appendectomy. I got to drive her to the hospital and be the switchboard for all the many phone calls coming in and going out that day. Kinley's boyfriend, Neal (who is pre-med also) and I spent the whole day feeling giddy that we were in a hospital. So yeah, that was a cool adventure for me at least - I'm not sure how Kinley felt about it.

Well, yesterday, Cassidy finally got a real doctor (not our health center nurse) to look at an infection on her toe. Poor thing, she'd been in pain for a week. As it turned out, she needed "surgery" to clean out the infection and allow her toe to heal. I was not with her at the doctor's appointment, but her boyfriend, Evan, was with her the whole time. He went into the surgery room with her to hold her hand while they operated on her toe (Aww.)

(I think by today he may have regained feeling in his hand.)

So last night Cassidy had to take off the dressing to soak her toe and re-dress it with clean bandages. I am really hoping I didn't annoy her with my enthusiastic offer to help.

She took her boot off and for the first time, looked at the dressing on her toe. Blood had soaked through the bottom. Cassidy got light-headed. I got excited.

I talked Cassidy through peeling off the large bandages wrapping her whole foot, and she did a great job, but she let me take the final bandages and gauze off.


Yes.


It was like Christmas.


(Don't look at me like that.)



As it turns out, the wound wasn't quite as epic as she and I feared/hoped (respectively.) But we got her all cleaned up and re-bandaged. Both of us stayed calm and cool and did a pretty nice job, if I do say so myself. Cassidy even took care of it all by herself this morning!


If anyone else has any calamity, emergency, or epidemic, feel free to give me a call!