Incident report

It's been a rough week for our boys.

Incident #1
Last week Thomas was at "Snow Blitz" learning how to snowboard up at Brighton. At some point during the free time, a lady crashed into him from behind and knocked him down. Somehow in the tangle her ski ended up between his legs and injured him in the general, well, ahem, crotch area. I won't go into all the gory details of the injury, 'cause, well, you know.  But suffice it to say there was blood and scratching and bruises and a very sore boy. The part that is still making me a teensy bit mad is that the lady got up, skied off and didn't even apologize. He was sore for a few days but he's better now.

Incident #2
Tuesday night our ward youth went ice skating, including Rachel, Thomas and Aaron and Stick (Scout Master). At some point in the evening they took everyone off the ice and zambonied it (I'm pretty sure that's the official word). Once they let the kids back on the very slick ice it was announced that the skaters should change direction. Aaron and his buddies were going the new correct direction but a teenage girl headed toward them was not. The details of what happened next are vague but somehow a girl crashed right into Aaron and knocked him down face first onto the ice.

Again, more vague details, about what happened next, but Stick was alerted and they decided that Aaron had probably had a concussion.  He was experiencing a lot of confusion and a lot of memory loss.  He didn't even know what happened.

Stick brought him home and our home teacher came and they gave him a blessing. Poor boy, he just kept saying over and over, "What happened?" and we'd tell him, "You got knocked down onto the ice and hurt your head." He'd say, "oh." and then four minutes later we'd repeat the entire conversation. Over and over and over. It was like conversing with a 14 year old Alzheimer's patient. He couldn't remember anything from the day before and several days before that. It was pretty scary for me having never seen a concussion before.

Stick took him to Primary Children's Hospital on the advice of our Bishop who recommended that most of the local hospitals would probably just transfer him there anyway. Stick was really happy with the service they received at PCH. They left for the hospital around 9:30pm and returned around 2am.

Stick is good to take this picture for me. He knows how I like to photo-document everything. (Truthfully, though, this picture makes me a little teary.) They gave him a cat scan to rule out any damage above his eye. Thankfully no damage was found.

Day one.

The pictures aren't really doing justice to the bruising, it looks a lot worse in real life, but just to give you an idea.

Day two.

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(This is sort of funny to me, but it shouldn't be.)

He's been home from school for two days but will probably go back tomorrow because he's about to die of boredom. The paperwork that came home said he needs "cognitive rest"  and physical rest so the following things are restricted:

• weightlifting
• physical exercise
• riding a bike
• jumping on a trampoline
• skiing
• skateboarding
• taking tests
• listening to loud music
• watching tv
• playing video games
• reading for long periods of time

What is allowed:

• gazing at gently floating clouds.

Ok, I better behave.

I shouldn't make fun of this situation. It was really, really scary at the time and I know that head injuries are serious and I am so so thankful that he is ok.

Aaron's memory is back now but he still can't remember the actual crash. So weird.

As I type, Thomas and Spencer are up at Snow Blitz.  Here's to hoping that incident #3 isn't going to happen. I wonder if Spencer feels like he has a target on his back?

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So, so crazy. Poor boy! Hope he is surviving his cognitive rest! My goodness!

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