More Excitement

What day is this? I've lost track.

Yesterday (Wednesday), I puttered around the house, ran some errands, and did some cleaning. Meg came home from work. I think I went to bed sometime after 10:00 but didn't fall asleep right away. I dozed some. Along about 12:20 AM, the phone rang. I fumbled with the television remote thinking it was the cordless phone. By the time I actually got to the phone, it wasn't ringing anymore...and I didn't recognize the "wireless caller" number. I went back to sleep. About 1:30, Meg came into my room and said that Nathan had called her cell phone. Ryan had fallen off his bicycle and hit his head. An hour or two later, they decided to take him to the emergency room in Muncie because he was sleepy and vomiting. A CT scan at Ball Memorial Hospital detected some bleeding on the brain. They were transferring him by ambulance to Riley Hospital for Children in Indy. "Do you want to stay here, or are you going with me?" Dumb question!

We got ourselves together and took two cars to Riley. Neither of us had ever been there before. It was now 2-something AM...still dark...and we didn't know how to get in the hospital from the parking garage. That wing of the hospital was locked up and dark. We no more than walked out of the garage (outside) when we saw a couple of workmen pull up. I asked them if they knew the hospital well and/or could direct us to the ER. Not only did they know the hospital, they had keys to get in locked doors and locked security gates. One of the men went out of his way to escort us to the ER. Coincidence that we should run into them just then? I don't think so! Those men were God's angels!

Nathan had ridden in the ambulance with Ryan, and it had arrived just a few minutes before we got there. The ER nurses were putting a smaller neck brace on Ryan when we walked in. There was my little grandson with his face all messed up, bloody lip, etc., strapped to the same monitors that I had on me in Critical Care. He was very quiet but watching television. It took almost two hours before the neurologist showed up. (Another "hurry up and wait" situation.) Thankfully, Ryan could do just about everything the doctor asked him to do. Another doctor came in to check for internal injuries, etc. Then it was determined that he would be taken for another brain scan, then be admitted for observation. I left just as they came to take him. Nathan had had no sleep. Meg got a couple of hours before he called. Meg will stay for the duration. Nathan will await someone from Muncie to come and take him home.

Ryan WAS wearing his bike helmet, which was cracked in the accident. He doesn't remember what happened. Just imagine how bad things could be if he hadn't been helmeted! I will run some errands and await CT scan results before deciding what to do next--whether I'll be going back to Riley or what. Waiting, waiting, waiting...