Phone calls you don't want to recieve...

[jsbowden]

And I'm not talking about telemarketers.

So, yesterday morning I wasn't feeling all that great, so I stayed home from work (and why not, I earn 80 hours a year of sick time, and I have almost a week's worth just sitting there not doing anything for me).

Just as I was starting to prepare something to eat and take my meds, my phone goes off.

It's robeli. "You have to come to school. Now. Evan fell off the playground thing. They've called an ambulance."

My wording might be slightly off, but that's all of the conversation I remember. I'm just glad I was at home. I got dressed, and 6 minutes later (it would have been less, but that time of morning is still the late middle of morning rush and I had to sit through a light at one point), I was parking in front of the school.

I went straight through the lobby to the playground without checking in at the office. I violated several FCPS policies by not stopping at the office and getting a visitor badge, but at the time, I really had no interest in even pretending to care.

On the playground, my eight year old is flat on his back with an EMT/paramedic hovering over him and checking him out. He's at the bottom of this spiral climby thing (roughly 1ft. diameter, 8ft. tall). He'd apparently fallen off the platform that was the access to this (~5.5 - 6 feet up), and hit it on the way down. He can move all his limbs, and he's lucid, but he can't remember from one moment to the next whether or not he hit his head (it goes back and forth from yes to no several times) but it hurts, and his back hurts (his teacher saw him fall, and his back is what hit the climby thing). He's not talking, and he's laying very still. If you've met my kid, you understand exactly WHY this is extremely worrisome. They put a collar on him, moved him on to a board, and strapped him down. If I never have to see that ever again, it still will have been too many times.

After the X-rays were taken, we're told he's got nothing broken (but he does have a very deep contusion). They took a urine sample just to make sure there's no kidney damage. He's stiff and sore, but over all, he's OK. Bending over hurts, and he needed help getting up and out of the tub, but in a couple days he should be back to normal. Adults break; kids bounce (mostly, it could have easily gone a lot worse).

My fingers are bleeding from where I peeled the skin off around my nails. Aside from having been on fire, that might have been the scariest thing I've had to endure.

Comments

[paradoxicmotion.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! Having been the, uh, cause of that sort of call once or twice (less minor than possible head/back injuries though), I can say it's not fun for him either!

Very glad he'll be okay.