All I heard was a scream...

So this morning I was awoken by a very piercing scream from my little sister. Since we were the last to fall asleep watching a movie last night, she slept with me in my room. I'm not quite sure what happened, but she screamed. I woke up. I shook her 'cause I thought she was still asleep and having a bad dream. But through the fog, that is not having my glasses on, I could see dark, blood-like stuff from her mouth. Sure enough I reached for my glasses and she ran to the bathroom, and I followed to find her mouth full of blood. A previously broken tooth was again broken, her lip was gushing and apparently a baby tooth decided to remove itself from her mouth as well. I ran back to my room to find the broken portion of the tooth and found my windowsill split in two...and interestingly enough there were two teeth marks on the sill, almost as if Elexis bit it. It was so freakin' weird. So we clean all the blood and Elexis and lay her in the game room on the futon....somewhere in there me and mama look at Lex's lip and see that the cut isn't just on the inside, it's all the way through. OMG...so now we're all preparing to go to the emergency room. Bah! Me, mama, Aaron, Granny and Lex trek to Arlington Memorial Hospital. As we pull up we're reminiscing about days both Aaron and I spent there...with anything but fondness. Much our surprise, there are only like 2 other patients there. Unfortunately, AMH lives up to the ER stereotype and our wait is atrocious. Elexis goes back for vitals and in the time she's there 4 other patients enter and are seen. As one might imagine my tolerance and patience level were goin' south. Eventually (after 2 hours there) Lex is finally taken to a room where her vitals are once again taken, she's given a local anesthetic to numb her lip and a painkiller, and she is told that a doctor would be there soon. "Young, cute Dr. Martin" comes in and Elexis makes him pinky swear the procedure won't hurt. He does and says he'll be back. False. It's 9A. Enter Ebonii at 10A and there is still no sign of a doctor. Really friends?!? I'm sure it takes like 15-20 min to do a few sutures. 7 nurses and apparently 1 doctor for the whole ER....and the nurses are apparently only good for fetching robes and taking vitals (which are all digital so the take no real skill). UGH. Watchin' tv and snooping in the room....trying to figure out why there's a baby Shasta soda can in the cabinet with the bottles of Saline...trying to understand by the room is dirty and why the trash smells like super soiled sanitary napkin. It's now 12N. Nurse comes in again for vitals and says the doctor is on his way. LIES! Again! Come 1 o'clock a Dr. Adrien Cheong (nice guy) and his P.A. Laura enter the scene.  They are definitely not "Young, cute Dr. Martin", but they're credentialled so it's all gravy. I guess. They remove the gauze and bandaid from "Young, cute Dr. Martin" and take a look and magically Dr. Cheong gets paged over the intercom. He departs. Totally coming back soon. 1:45P....no one is there yet again. I stand in the hall uber irritated with everything. Man Nurse Blaine walks by and says "Is there still no doctor here?!" We're like, yeah no....He says he's gonna go find him. Exit Man Nurse Blaine. 2:15P...Dr. Cheong and P.A. Laura come back.  stitches and 15min later, Elexis is done. Dr. Cheong and P.A. Laura leave. I exit to relay the news to Granny and Aaron in the waiting room. Elexis is finally discharged at 2:45P. She has a dentist's appointmen at 3:45P. Fail Arlington Memorial. Fail. I'm now at home and mama and Lex are at the dentist's....I'm more tired than I can verbalize (and that's rare)...and I have a meeting with a mentee 13 minutes ago. Oh my no.