So…..we had lunch at a lovely couple’s place this lunchtime, they made some yummy pasta and homemade apple pie.  Scrummy it was!  Unfortunately I had to get home to study but Drew stayed to play Wii.  So I’m at home tidying up before I get ready to study when Drew comes bursting through the door saying that Bethany (the wife of the couple) has cut her hand on a broken glass while washing the dishes and it cut down to the bone.  So I grab some packets of sterile gauze that I had from school and paper tape and we both ran back over to their house (its literally just around the corner). while we are running Drew’s dialling urgent care on his new bluetooth toy he got in the black friday sale, I think he was more excited to be using the hands-free while running than worried about the actual situation! haha (no offense Bethany, he was truly worried).

So we rushed into their house and I jump into full Nurse Maust mode!  “Let me take a look….ah I see, is that your skin? (holding the gasp in)…….hmm, its wide open you should definitely go and get stitches or at least let them sterilize it and dress it properly to stop any risk of infection”.   Poor Beth, she was coping as well as you would expect someone would after seeing their bone through an open wound. “Here lets put some gauze and tape on it in case you faint again”.  So Drew and Josh were all flustered, Drew was getting off the phone to urgent care “Are you open on Sundays?” haha I thought that was the funniest question, but maybe that’s just me.  And Josh was concerned with Bethany and making sure she didn’t look at the wound again.  SO Drew suggests to drive them, before they could say “don’t worry about it” Drew’s grabbed the car keys and jumped in the drivers seat.  I’m waving them goodbye not even thinking about the fact that Drew has our house keys!!!!!!!!!!

I walk back over to our house arms wrapped around my body cuz its windy and rainy and I didn’t have a chance to grab a coat cuz Drew was all in a rush.  I go to open our front door and ITS LOCKED!!!!  AHHHHH, “they just left to sit in a waiting room for 6 hours” I thought, what was I gonna do!  I had nothing on me, no phone, no car keys, no coat!  I had literally grabbed the gauze and run out the door!  So I tried the window cuz sometimes we leave it unlocked…nope!  I walked around the back hoping for some kind of miracle….I knew it was locked cuz we had just been away and locked up everything.  So I went back over to Josh and Bethany’s and tried their front door, nope, it was locked (which I later found out it wasn’t, its just a bit stiff!!!!!!  LOL).

Then I tried their car door!!!  and it was open!!!  So i got in there and tried to occupy myself for a while by snooping around the car…..those guys have more pairs of sunglasses in their car than I own pairs of earrings!  Well after about 3 minutes of looking around their car for magazines or books, or a portable DVD player I decided that I may as well have my Sunday afternoon nap while I wait!  I was just really frustrated that I went home early (and didn’t stick around to socialize) so that I could study, and there I was locked out of the house, sitting in a car with no textbook, no recorder, no notes, nothing!!!  But there was nothing I could do about it, the others could be gone for hours….so I may as well get some sleep.  It was getting a bit nippy so I used the cushions in the back seat as some kind of warmth, believe it or not they actually made a difference.  Then I found a jacket of Bethany’s on the backseat and put that over me.  I kept listening for cars and listening for voices in case they did come back but nothing.

THEN just as I was nodding off someone knocked on the window and it was Josh!  Josh and Drew had come back, Beth was going to have to wait to get stitches so Drew was coming back to get dropped off at home and Josh was picking some books up to go back and wait with Bethany.  I hadn’t even heard them get back!  Embarrasing!!!!!!!  LOL.  I could tell Josh felt bad, haha.  Thats when he told me his house was unlocked!  Great, now I know!  lol.   Oh well, thankfully they had only been gone about half an hour, can you imagine if Drew had said he would stick around and wait with them.  I think Drew was more annoyed by the situation than I was, he really didn’t like that I had accidentally gotten locked out without even my phone, but I finally made him laugh about it!!!  lol.   So in the end I only missed about half an hours worth of study time and I have a little Sunday afternoon story to tell on Monday morning.  Hope you liked this one Ally.  See you soon.  Note to self * always unlock the front door when rushing out to practise nursing skills!