"What hurts?" asked the nurse.
"No habla ingles, no comprende!" I replied.
"Tamale, burrito," the nurse replied.
"No comida gracias, mi bonsa la heinda, la ansia!" I yelled.

This was my experiance as I was lying in the emergency room of the Arkansas Children's Hospital; not able to speak any English was my part in the Annual disaster drill at the hospital. Gold 4 participated in the yearly disaster drill, we arrived on the morning of oCt. 11th at 8:00 am to get all bloodied up. As we walked down the street like the walking dead to the ambulances that waited to drive us into the ER, people looked at us with disgust. We piled into the ambulance Jen with her bloof squirting fracture, my multiple contusions to the stomach and chest and Hillary who was just along for the ride. We arrived at the ER and were taken to the emergency rooms I was in the same room as Jen while I awaited a translator the doctor and nurse explained what they were doing and I did not understand a word they were saying, they were able to find someone who knew the words Llama and Anos so I told them my name was Ana and I was Veinte uno, all they could get from that was One. By this time I was freezing and going into Respiratory distress they covered me with a blanked and yelled for the interpreter, I remember another nurse coming into the room and slapping a bracelet on my wrist, all I would make out was White female 6 years old. "No es mia, no es mia!" I yelled and all they could do is nod their heads. Meanwhile the nurses helping Jen were all laughing about her leg many visitors came in and asked about the squirting leg and as Jen demonstrated I slipped into a coma!

i later found out that the interpreter arrived about thirty seconds after my death, our dear friend Thomas had died on arrival and was taken to the morgue, Jen had survived along with Hillary, Jesse, Amelia and Jessica and unfortunately we lost Vivky too. The drill was fun; there was lots of laughter and jokes going on because it was known that this was only a drill. Because this was only a drill and there were real life situations there would have been other staff from different depts. Called out to help. This experience gave us all a view of what goes on in emergency situations, if this had been real I would completely feel comfortable with the doctors and nurses taking care of me. With this drill we were able to help the staff determine exactly what needs to happen or what changes need to be made in case there is ever an outside disaster again.