Naomi's finger

Friday I had a meeting with my broker. I got a phone call from Lisa and apparently Naomi had smashed her finger in between a wooden sliding door.
Her finger looked really weird, there was some meat sticking out (about 4mm). The door had smashed her finger so hard that meat from inside her finger had "exploded" out of her finger. An ugly site, especially if you are the parent.
We went to the only "urgent care center" in Maricopa and arrived at about 4:40. There were 8 people before us and they had no intention on treating us before the other patients. So I started to complain that my daughter was realy hurt and that she was going to faint. They checked if that was the case but her bloodpressure was normal. Normally they would let the other people go before us but at that time Lisa was being so friendly to the male nurse that we were treated before anyone else.
2 PA's (physian's assistent) looked at her but could not make up their mind. They thought of just "bandaging" it up and leave it like that. When I told them (it could also be "demanded them" but hey that is subjective)they couldn't do that and that it had to be cut, they took pictures with their cell and send it to the doctor who was in the office 25 miles down the road in Casa Grande. After the doctor looked at it they wanted to take an X-ray because they feared that some of the "sticking out parts were bone fragments", but their X-ray machine was not working so they send us to another hospital / ER department in Gilbert.
This hospital is located about 40 minutes from Maricopa. We arrived there at around 7pm, they took the X-ray of her finger + extra alien finger part and they decided to cut the meat away and saw it back together. They only came to this conclusion after they brought in an EMT doctor at 9:45 pm. (those are the doctors that go in the ambulance when there is a sever accident) So after about 300 minutes after the accident we saw the first real doctor appear...
Naomi has a metal thing around her finger and she takes antibiotics to reduce the chance of an infection.
This was the first time that we thought of moving back to Belgium. Living in a city that is at least 25 minutes from a hospital or doctor is extremely dangerous. If something would happen to us 20 minutes can make the difference between life and death. We are now planning of moving away from Maricopa, closer or in civilization where a doctor and ER are near.