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My Father was replacing a pedestal sink with a regular sink with under sink cabinet. We bought a metal wheel for the dremel. Think mini, 1.5", circular saw.

As soon as I assembled it, my first thought was, man this looks dangerous. I guess I said it out loud and my mother freaked out. I calmed her down, said we'd be safe, blah, blah, blah. She and my wife went off for the ballet as the men did man stuff. Yeah! Man Stuff!

Anyway. long story short, he cut one side of the base-board to fit the cabinet. He turned off the dremel, put it down with his right hand, and reached for a chisel with his left...and touched the dremel blade as it was slowing down.

Not bad, just a slice between the thumb and pointer. Anywhere else, it would have been very minor. Unfortunately, a pocket was opened and needed stitches.

Run to the ER. Check in. Sit, wait.

20 minutes later, intake.

Note to self, when checking in at ER, note how much pain you are in, say you feel faint, drip blood on floor. Well, we did none of these...

2 hours later, finally taken into a room.

1.5 hours later, a Nurse Practitioner (very professional I must admit) stitched his hand. Then 45 minutes later, a nurse FINALLY brought his dressing and neo-sporin and in 2 minutes we were done.

Then 20 minutes waiting to check out at the end, and done. Yep, 5+ hours at the ER, maybe 15 minutes actual care.

Question for the docs. If a kid has been knocked out during a baseball game, isn't it a bad idea to feed him a BK burger while he is waiting to be seen in the ER?

Oh, and the couple that checked in ahead of us, they were in bad shape. 3 yr old fell backward hit his head on a sharp piece of furniture. The parents were in worse shape than the kid. Both of them were visibly shaking.

Other characters? Gang banger with something in his eye, came in with his posse. They got bored and left. Chinese girl in flip flops, I think she dropped a knife on her foot.