What a week!

I’m still recovering a bit from the last few days.  At the last minute I had a friend call and say she had a friend with 4 tickets to High School Musical on Ice 2 hours away, so I got my best friend and her daughter, Summer’s best friend, to go with us.  The show didn’t start til 7, so we had to leave at 4, long drive there, 5 cars wrecked on the way there, one car literally RIGHT BEHIND me went swerving back and forth a few times, obviously was losing control of the car, almost swerved into and hit the semi that was driving alongside both of us, but then just whipped out and spun a 360 and flew off the road.  It was unbelievable.  I happened to be looking in my rearview mirror at that moment, and I’ve never seen that happen before.  Anyway, after the show, then another drive home 2 hours in the rain, I was exhausted. 

Saturday I had promised Summer I’d take her to Build a Bear Workshop in Indianapolis if she paid with her own money, and the night before I decided to invite our best friends again to go with us, so we made a day of that, and I drove again, had a migraine by the time I got home, was exhausted. 

But yesterday was the kicker.  Summer had a birthday party at the roller rink for 2 hours.  I was sitting at a table talking to a friend of mine, who has triplets that Summer has been friends with for 5 years now.  Two of her triplet girls bumped into each other and one fell down on the carpeted area, was screaming and crying and wouldn’t get up.  My friend and & walked over to her thinking she was being dramatic (because they sometimes do that) or that she had broken a bone!  I was standing above her and Laura bent down and was saying, “Come on, you’re okay, get up” when all of a sudden she just froze and her eyes rolled back in her head and she stopped breathing.  Laura noticed it before I realized what was happening and she starts shaking her by the shoulders and screaming her name over and over.  I totally forgot I had a cell phone right in my pocket and was yelling at someone to call 911.  She was shaking her so hard she had her halfway sitting up and all of a sudden she blinked and was back with us and started crying.  Scared the shit out of me, people.  She told me later that she could hear mommy screaming at her but she doesn’t know why she couldn’t talk and she couldn’t see us either.  I still want to just bawl writing about it here.  It really freaked me out.  I’ve never seen that happen to a kid before, and I just keep thinking if it freaked ME out, what her mom was going through.  She was so relieved when her daughter woke up that she started crying and then said later she was embarrassed.  I was like, “Are you kidding me?  I wanted to cry myself and it wasn’t even my kid!”  She stayed for the rest of the party like a little trooper and just was saying that her arm hurt and she didn’t want to move it, so when the party was over Laura took her to the ER and they put her arm in a cast and said it might be broken.  They said it it didn’t look like it but that she was probably in so much pain that it made her have this shock reaction type thing and because of that they thought she might have a hairline fracture or something that the x-ray didn’t pick up so she has to see a pediatric orthopedist sometime. 

Holy shit.  What a week.  Now there’s a story for the scrapooks!