Frozen

My weekend started out perfect. I was going to work from home on Friday to spend time with the kids who were out of school and since Jay was out of town. Because of that, I had the luxury of sleeping in and running in daylight as opposed to the dark, dark mornings. We had fog come in overnight and everything was frozen and as I was running I was thinking I wish I could freeze time, freeze the weekend so that we could spend more time together, freeze the day so that I could get caught up on work, freeze time so that I could enjoy each of my kids a little more.................It ended up be a really good thing that you cannot freeze time.

Friday night I started getting a sore throat and not feeling well. I woke up Saturday morning to meet the BBK's and was sicker than I was on Friday so I skipped the run. This meant that I was home with plenty of time to convince Jake that he wanted to go sledding with the YMYW. Izzie was so excited, Jake was not. But the reality of staying home with his mom and two other sisters was less appealing then sledding (and a little pressure from mom) so he went.

They left at 10 am so I decided that I was going to soak in my tub, read a good book and try to relax with half the kiddos gone. After being in the bath for about 30 min, the girls came to inform me that one of our neighbors was on the phone - I knew this was not a good thing because he is also one of the YM leaders. Apparently, Jake had been thrown from a sled and hit his head pretty hard and was having memory issues. NICE! I had about 5 min to get dressed before they showed up at the house and as they walked in, I was searching for shoes, yelling at the girls to get ready to go somewhere (not sure yet) and making sure I had everything we would need for the ER.

Jake and his leader walked in and the poor kid did not know what day it was, what had happened the past few days and how he got hurt. I had him get in the car, the leader took the girls to his unsuspecting wife and we headed to the ER.



He kept trying to remember as we were driving and he was repeating phone numbers, class schedules and saying that it was 2010 and he was almost 15 years old. We were taken right back and after the usual assessment and CT scan, we were told that he had a concussion. Not that we didn't already know that, but I do not mess around with head injuries and this is not this kids first by any means. But there was no bleeding and no reason to be more concerned than normal - this is a good thing.

So the two sickies headed home picked up the girls and Izzie from her YW leaders and the whining began. For some reason these girls have radar and the worse your day is and the worse you feel the more the whine and argue. It didn't stop, ever .......until Sunday night.

Finally, today I am feeling better, Jake is feeling better and I am so, so glad time did not freeze - Can you imagine if it did?

BTW - The new IMC ER is fantastic. This was our second visit in the past few months and they are extremely efficient and both visits have been as quick as possible.