When “Unknown” popped up on my cell phone as incoming, I thought maybe it was an automated doctor office call. It wasn’t. The woman calmly explained she was calling from Charlotte’s school and (this is the part where my heart temporarily sank to my knees) wanted to let me know my daughter was kicked in the face while on the monkey bars in an unfortunate accident. There is a red mark by her eye and ice was put on it in the nurse’s office but she doesn’t need to go home or see a doctor and she’s not crying. Okay, I can breathe again. A chat with Charlotte over the phone later confirmed she is one tough girl and that it was best Daddy and I downplayed it. So appreciated the call. It put me in my mom’s shoes many years ago when she was a teacher and the principal came to her classroom informing her I had fallen at the babysitter’s and cut my forehead open. (You’ll see the scar on my hairline when my bangs are swept far enough to one side.) Thankfully this time no stitches or broken bones–currently we know four children in casts, all kindergartners! The crazy thing, Nana said she had a premonition today that Papa’s fear Charlotte would get hurt on the monkey bars would come true. Now that’s scary.
Posted under Baby Thomas: Month 40
This post was written by Tara on October 18, 2011
Truly sorry to hear of Charlotte’s mishap at school. I can pray this is the only time you’ll get a call from school; but I’m a mom, too, and know that’s not realistic. Good luck!
Glad she’s okay – I know how nerve wracking those calls from school can be!!
Had a call years ago from the school nurse, “your daughter has just broken her arm in gym class”, someone had set the hurdle up backwards and she tripped over it……..so I hurried to school to find her arm with a newspaper wrapped around it by the school nurse. Was really disturbed that they had a school nurse yet she didn’t have a splint or something better than a newspaper to stabilize the arm.
Another time my son broke his ankle in early morning football practice, hurried to the school to find my son sitting on the front step of the school, all by himself, no one was with him, the coach had to go back to football practice.
Both times they had to have surgery and metal plates and screws/pins put in and then later removed. You always think when you send your child to school that they are safe and well cared for, not always the case. But both survived just fine and have the scars to prove it.
Glad Charlotte is OK!! It does make your heart skip a beat though when you get a call from the school.
If you think that is scary wait until she starts driving! When my son first started driving I would worry every time I heard sirens and click on every news story about a car accident in the area just to make sure it wasn’t him. Then one day I was standing in the livingroom looking out the window and a police car pulled up to my house. I couldn’t even move and I think I was holding my breath. My son was not home at the time and all I could think of was that something horrible had happened to him. Luckily my mother-in-law answered the door and we soon found out that the officer had stopped because my mother-in-law had not pulled all of the way into our driveway and thus the rear of her car was blocking part of the side walk. That was so scary!