Our First Week Back to School-Our First Injury of 2010

Well, we got through that first week, and we thrived-except for an accident our 4 year old Heidi had at Grandma’s-more on that later in this post. I did a ton of planning during Christmas break, lots of copies, and lots of reading schedules. It was worth every minute. We are really digging into our Colonial Study, and our children are anxious to get to some fun activities that I will incorporate into it. Since some of our first activities are outside, we are having to wait a bit.

We got all of our assignments done, but didn’t quite get all our reading done, umm maybe that is because I found another book and we added an hour of reading one day and didn’t get to the planned reading? Ok, so with a home library it is bound to happen, and it is okay. God led me to that book, and He had a better plan, as always. We will read from the planned reading this week sometime.

So, you are wondering about Heidi’s accident. Monday evening Grandma called wanting the girls (Lora, and Heidi) to come help her take her Christmas tree down. So, Tuesday afternoon Brad took them over and they took all the decorations and such down. Then Brad went in to take the tree and boxes to the basement. Since the girls rarely get to go to the basement, they went with him, to see what treasures they could find. He went upstairs to grab another load of goods, the girls stayed down there exploring. Heidi located something that she just had to get her hands on. She climbed onto a little child’s wood table, and was standing on it, when it tipped. She landed on the back of her head on the concrete floor. We are not sure if she lost consciousness, or not, but she was very dazed, and when she let out the scream that makes your blood stop, Brad ran down there, tearing off the rail in his haste. When he got to her, she was screaming, and unable to stand up. He took her upstairs, and got ice on her head. Sometime in here he called me.

The call went something like this:

“Betty, we seem to have had a casualty”

“How bad, and who”

“Heidi, fell off a table in the basement onto the floor”

“How are her eyes”

“Well, her pupils respond to light, but she is really dazed”

“I think you should take her in to the ER”

“Well, why don’t I bring her home and let you look at her”

“Ok, but still, if you called me, it is bad and you know it”

hands phone over to our 7 yr old Lora-not sure what we were saying, but I asked her to give the phone back to daddy.

Grandma gets ahold of the phone.

“Betty, we have it all under control, we are going to let her lay down, but not sleep”

“Please tell Brad to either take her to the ER, or bring her home now.”

“She will be fine, after she lays down for a bit”

“Please, just give the phone to Brad”

“Brad. please just bring her home now, I need to see her”

“OK, we will in just a minute”

“Ok, Love you”

so, it takes about 30 minutes for them to go 1.5 miles, and I am about to go nuts. They get home and the first thing I see is a HUGE knot on the back of her head. It is 2 inches in diameter, and protruding out from her skull about an inch to inch and a half. Heidi wants to lay down a bit, so we lay her on the couch, for just a few minutes. I asked her some questions and she kind of made sense. I then asked her to get up and try to check her motor function. This is when she left for the ER. She was unable to sit up from dizziness.

So, Brad takes her in as Hannah hadn’t eaten for quite awhile. He calls me to give the nurses all the needed info. They check her over really good and keep commenting about what a remarkable knot she has. She throws up and they do an x-ray to make sure that there is no skull fracture. They continue to watch her, and she vomits again, just after Brad tells me they are heading home after he signs the paperwork. So, they watch her for another 20 minutes. Brad finally gets home with her. She falls asleep on the couch and then vomits again. I called her pediatrician and he tells me she needs a head CT. We get ready to head off, when she starts acting much better, so we watch her for a bit and decide to put everyone to bed and just keep getting up with her to check on her. I don’t sleep hardly at all. I am up checking on her about every 45 min to hour and a half. She vomits several times through the night. She gets up in the morning on her own, and seems much better. Then she eats a bit and vomits. I find out that she can have the CT done here, so I call the doctor who saw her in the ER. He orders it and we go in. She is such a big girl and never moves during it. We go over to the Dr. office and there is no bleeding, no remarkable swelling, and no remarkable bruising. The contusion (knot) shows up very remarkably. We all breathe a sigh of relief and by that evening she is acting much better, and ate a little supper.

Today, she is doing great and just about back to normal as far has behavior, and so forth. She still has quite a knot and is tender to touch. Praising God that she is ok. Lots of prayers were said during those two days.

So, are you ready for some pictures? I didn’t get any pictures of Heidi’s bump. I was too focused on taking care of her. But, I do have pictures of our first day back to school.

Isaiah (2) is showing off his Bible coloring
Everyone is working hard.
Working hard.
The girls. Theses were taken before Heidi had her accident.