A little girl comes into the ER (which is funny just to call this room here an ER. Just sayin'.....) and she has a disfiguring eye injury of some kind. It's hard to tell, at first glance, if the globe of the eye has been destroyed, if this "eye" is infected, whatever it is.... Dr. Ed speaks with the family and assesses the patient. He determines a number of things......
1- There are three interviews necessary for all admissions. The first one is total bullshit. Nothing mentioned in this first interview is valid, EVER! For instance.... The eye is infected and has a been for a week. The second interview has a few nuggets of truth to it. Maybe there is an eye injury here after all. She HAS injured it in the past.,.... A-HA!!! A nugget of something valuable! And the third is nothing but truth. The first two stories are mostly fabrication or outright lies, but the third interview is nothing but truth and might, in no way, resemble either of the first two stories AT ALL!!! Also for instance....this little girl had an eye injury A YEAR AGO! She recently broke her prosthetic eye.... See?
2- She did, in fact, injure her eye. The prosthetic eye was produced and placed on the table. POOF! There it was, right on the desk. A beautiful brown eye.
The little girl ultimately was discharged the next day after determining that she had an infection. The broken prosthetic eye, however, was not discharged with her. It stayed on the desk at the nurse station for the remainder of the time that we were in Haiti. Every person that saw this eye on the desk picked it up and admired it...."I wonder what this here eye is doing here right now?" Really?
Sadly, when Ed said that he was going to put his feet up for a little bit and to keep an eye on his patients, he really meant it....
A quiet walk....
Pippa (L) and Claire (R) take Miselene (MIDDLE) for a walk
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