[Kitsa]

There's a fantastic view of our city's fireworks from my dad's office, and a couple of years ago we sat in air-conditioned comfort and enjoyed. My dad is out of town this year and I don't think they'd just let his kid in his office (I don't blame them), so we have to fight for a spot in his company's parking lot to sit there.

One year when I was working the ER, we had this teenager come in with his fingers blown off. He was a foreign exchange student, lighting (possibly illegal) firecrackers with the host kids when a bee landed on him. He'd just lit an M80 or something and completely forgot he was holding it as he ducked and swatted at the bee.

Can you imagine making that call? "Uh, yeah, about your kid we were supposed to be watching...he kind of disfigured himself for life."

From what I remember, they were actually able to reconstruct his hand fairly well. The family sent pictures in a thank-you letter.