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trip to hospital
has confirmed our suspicions
he was no doctor

today was suture removal day. the plan was a quick in and out at the hospital then off to do some swimming. the swimming was how i bribed s8 to actually leave his bedroom and go with me to the hospital – willingly. and things looked good when we got to the hospital. no waiting – they got us through admissions and sent us on our merry way to the emergency room. s8 was even whistling. the nurse looked at his finger and then she looked closer at his finger and then she called over the next closest nurse to look at his finger and then they called over the nurses that were sitting at the desk on the other side of the room. and then they discussed – in thai – s8′s finger and seeing as how i’m all bilingual i could sort of understand what they were saying. well, really i didn’t hear much after i caught one of them saying “not good” and another confirming “very, very not good.” which caused me to think, “this can’t be good.” then they got a doctor to take a much more thorough look at s8′s finger. looking at neither s8 nor me the doctor asks, “did you do this yourself?” and i’m waiting for s8 to respond and tell him,”yes, i did do this myself, with a knife and a box of cereal” but then the doctor looks at me. and clarifies his question, “did you put these sutures in yourself?” that question spoke volumes. and when i tell him, “no, that this happened in penang and a fake doctor at a clinic that was 60 seconds down the road from the real hospital sutured up his finger” (okay, i really just said, “no, they were put in at a clinic in penang”) you know what this doctor’s response was? he shook his head. several times. and then said we need to give the sutures another week and hopefully (yes, he used the word hopefully) the finger will have healed up better by then. so no swimming and now even s8 is questioning the legitimacy of that guy in penang.