I don’t quite know where to begin to fill in the blanks of this last week of silence. Needless to say, I didn’t start to feel better from the conjunctivitis the next day, in fact I’m still ill today and feeling wiped out, exhausted and emotionally fragile.
However, the highlight of the week has to be yesterday when I received the dreaded phone call from school “Akra Jr has had an accident and I think he might need taking to hospital”. I ran over there (then ran back and got the car and DROVE round there – doh!) and rushed him to A&E, did the worst example of parallel parking in my life and got him through to the reception.
Three HOURS later we finally emerged. No stitches (wrong kind of wound apparently) but some fairly impressive looking bandages and dressings covering a nasty and deep cut to his side and various scrapes on his elbow, knees and chest.
I really have to teach my son that he needs to stop picking fights with the playground – the playground always wins.
3 responses so far ↓
1 David Goodwin // 27th Nov 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’m sure he’ll mend quickly enough!
“When I was young” I remember a kid fell off the monkey bars in our playground and managed to bite his tongue in half (cue ambulance and county council cutting down all monkey bars in all playgrounds!).
(The bars were wet as it had rained…)
2 Ys // 27th Nov 2008 at 5:05 pm
Aww poor kid.
To continue the “when I was young” theme… a girl got her arm caught on some wire, pulled it to free herself and ripped open her arm and it was all pink and gooey. I’ve never forgotten the way the pink inside just oozed up.
3 Miss L // 28th Nov 2008 at 10:38 am
Sounds like a serious argument – hope he recovers soon.
Bandages give lots of credit with the rest of the short people in his class, so he will get some feel good factor from it! I think we all carry some grit from our various playgrounds somewhere on our bodies.
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