SkyHog
Touchdown! Greaser!
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Everything Offends Me
So after Brianna was attacked by Piper, we went to the hospital to get her wounds checked out. She has a really nasty gash, about 1/2inch long, on her right arm, and it was split wide open good (apparently, he bit and pulled). At the first hospital, the Triage person told her "I would have just put superglue on it" and then told us that Presbyterian does not stitch dogbites due to liability.
So, I showed up, raised serious hell (I think I scared them), and got the copay refunded. We then went to a second hospital and decided to tell them that she was washing dishes and a glass broke and slashed her up. They stitched her up without a problem.
Is it common to not get stitches for dogbites? I wanted desperately, after the stitches were in, to say "oh, btw, that was a dogbite," but decided against it, since we were at the hospital until about 1230 this morning.
So, I showed up, raised serious hell (I think I scared them), and got the copay refunded. We then went to a second hospital and decided to tell them that she was washing dishes and a glass broke and slashed her up. They stitched her up without a problem.
Is it common to not get stitches for dogbites? I wanted desperately, after the stitches were in, to say "oh, btw, that was a dogbite," but decided against it, since we were at the hospital until about 1230 this morning.