springdellgirl

Concussion

Oh there is never a dull moment around here...take yesterday for example. After dropping Ailey off at Kindergarten I got a phone call from the middle school saying that Reilly had been injured and that I needed to pick her up. She had fallen and hit her head. What?!

I rushed over to the school to find out that during lunch Reilly had been running around outside with friends...in the rain...in flip-flops...and had fallen and whacked her head on a cement curb. HARD. I asked the office lady if Reilly had been seen by the nurse. I was informed that her school doesn't have a nurse. What?!

Reilly looked horrible. Shocky and faint. She was also nauseous, tired and extremely dizzy. I looked at the back of her head and tried to feel the size of her bump. There was no bump. There was just a puffy, spongy mass. In a panic we rushed over to the urgent care facility near the kids' school. They got us right in. FYI-- if your kid has any kind of head injury...don't go to an urgent care place. They don't have any kind of equipment to check out heads. I guess if I would've been thinking clearly I would've realized that but they happily took my co-pay, gave her a quick look over, and then sent us straight to the ER. They did tell me that where she had hit her head was in her visual area which was why she was experiencing vertigo. When she was trying to follow the doctor's light with her eyes they moved in a jerky way. Crazy.

I stopped quick at the kids' school to get them out early and to run them home. Tyler was on his way. We met my sister, Kelley, in the ER (she works at the hospital and had already called down to tell them we were coming in and got us all lined up.) Reilly ended up needing a CT scan. While she was in getting scanned we just happened to see a radiologist from our ward who dropped everything and went right in to read her scan as well. He came out and gave us the thumbs up. So we felt good while we waited for the official report. Thank goodness everything was ok. She just had a pretty nasty concussion and headache.

Of course that night we had Kameron's big PowerPoint presentation at school on the history of Spokane. Thank goodness for Kelley who watched all three girls so we could attend. Reilly had a pretty good night...except for me coming in multiple times to make sure that she was ok. I kept her home from school today so that she was FORCED to take it easy. She is such a wild thing and full of energy there's no way she would've been calm on her own.

We are so grateful that she is ok and that her injury was not worse. But I do have to say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. We, Johnson women, should be very wary of running on grass which may look benign but is in fact quite menacing and dangerous. You never know...we could break a foot or crack a skull!! ;)