Confessions of A Working Girl

Ok, I admit, the essay should have been done before now, since it’s due in…thirteen hours. But as usual I left it to last minute…

Arra, Sai and I agreed that we’d meet at 6 for dinner. Usually, Tuesday nights, we eat, then play pool, then I go to tai kwon do. Today, Arra and I ate dinner, and wondered where Sai was. She came in just as we had finished. One of her eyes was red, and she said that she wanted me to drive her to the hospital.

Her vision was blurry, she said, and it felt like there was something in her eye. The school nurse had suggested that she go to the hospital, and as she couldn’t drive with her vision blurry…

I’d never been to this hospital before, and neither had Sai. We had to follow the little blue signs with the H and the –> on them. When we got there, it took a few minutes to figure out which entrance to use…then we were told that where we needed to go was the Emergency Room, all the way on the other side of the building!

We went there, Sai signed in, and we sat down. I noticed that the time then was about 6:45. On the tv was playing the christmas carol where Scrooge McDuck plays Scrooge. At 7:30, a nurse called Sai.

On the tv, next came a Winnie-the-Pooh Christmas episode.  Sai came back. The nurse didn’t call her again until….eight something, I think, in the middle of ‘The year without Santa Claus.’ Then on tv was the so called sequel to the year without santa claus.The animation was different, and the voices were different. I liked that they put the Heat Miser/Snow Miser song in again, but that was about it.

Sai came out, ready to leave, at 9:45. Her eye felt better, and the doctor had given her a tiny tube of creme or something to put on it. We got back to the school around…10:20ish, I think. I sat with Sai while she ate her dinner, then came back to my room. Vivian was just getting ready to go to sleep (she has an 8 o clock class tomorrow) so I came out to the suite to write that essay.

My computer has 75% power left, so I better get going. Later, I’ll write about the conversation I had with the woman who was in the emergency room because her 6 year old daughter had a cough and a 104 degree fever.