250. An Emergency

Amisa was a single mother who worked from tutoring students. She liked this job because it her to stay home with her own little Nimisha. Amisa saw all her clients at her table. She picked the kitchen table because from she could watch her daughter, who usually stayed the living room. Nimisha usually stayed in the room when her mother was working with another .

One afternoon though, Nimisha felt so thirsty. She to get into the kitchen to get a . "Mom, can I please have a drink?" Nimisha . Amisa was annoyed. She was in the middle a lesson. "Yes, but you have to serve because I'm working," Amisa said. Nimisha pulled a up to the kitchen cabinet and stood on . She opened the kitchen cabinet and reached up the top shelf to get a blue plastic . Then she slipped. Nimesha let out a huge . When Amisa got up to see what was , she saw that her daughter's hand had slipped the tongs of a large serving fork had through Nimisha's finger. Nimisha was crying. Amisa was . She had her client go home early, and going to rush her daughter to the hospital. didn't want to try and pull the fork herself because she was worried that she might the situation worse.

Nimisha lived four blocks from hospital. She felt it was faster to walk the hospital than call and wait for an . There was only one problem. It was very outside, and Amisa couldn't put a coat on daughter when she had a huge serving fork from one of her fingers. Amisa wrapped a around her child and together they quickly walked the hospital.

"My daughter has a fork stuck her finger!" Amisa yelled as she entered the room.