Twins... And a piece of bone...

    Last Thursday Keith and Candace left for a week to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. In the afternoon, after the clinic was closed we were called back for a lady in labor. While we were checking her out a pickup pulls up with another patient in the back. This is a lady who is trying to have twins. Actually she had had one of them at about 10:00 that morning and now it is almost 5:00 pm. They haven't cut the cord yet, I'm not sure why, but the baby is warm and breathing well. The other baby has been stuck with one arm out all the way to the shoulder, for hours... The arm is a dark purple. Mom is exhausted. I didn't think that baby would be able to be born without a c-section but we called Githane to come see what she thought. We were unable to reposition the baby but somehow it was born. I'm still not sure how. If I hadn't been there I wouldn't believe it was possible for a baby to be born with one arm out then the rest of the baby's body then his head last, but it happened. The second baby was dead. We were all relieved that they didn't have to go down to the hospital. We gave the mom several antibiotics and some IVF's. It turned out the first lady we were called to the clinic for actually wasn't ready to have her baby quite yet so we sent her back home. Finally we get the other patient on her way home too so I came home and showered. I had just finished when we heard that a kamyon had tipped over and there were people injured so we headed back to the clinic. There were actually only two people injured this time. One man saw they were tipping over so he jumped off the truck. He had a very obvious fracture to his leg/ankle. The other lady had a head injury. We splinted the man's leg and then sent them both down to Port in the ambulance. We were so thankful we hadn't had to send it down an hour or two earlier with the twins' mom. The ambulance was almost ready to leave when someone says we have another patient from the same wreck. He supposedly hurt his back and can't walk. The true story is... He was on the truck earlier that tipped over but wasn't seriously injured. He lives close to Port and just wants to get home. We gladly piled him in the back of the ambulance too and away they went. This time when we went home for the evening we stayed home.
     On Friday a young boy came in with a sore to his left ankle. He didn't complain about it hurting just said it was a wound that had a lot of drainage. I started cleaning it ... And found something hard in the middle of the wound. It almost looked like a piece of bone. I pulled...and out came a splinter of bone about two inches long and half an inch wide.

Apparently sometime a long time ago he hurt his leg and now the piece of bone had worked itself out causing an abscess. The child couldn't even remember when the earlier injury might have occurred.