Crazy Afternoon

Today my group at work had our annual Christmas Lunch. Yeah, Christmas -- we've discovered that having a group lunch during December is nearly impossible; in early December everyone is busy trying to get work finished, and then people are frequently gone for the holidays.

Anyway, I got out of lunch, and discoverd many missed calls, voice mails, etc. from Jeff (PF Changs is apparently loud). Turns out Grace had fallen off a piece of playground equipment at school, and fell about 5 feet, hitting her neck and back on the way down. She was complaining of a pain in her neck (and it WASN'T her brother), so the school tried to call me, couldn't (stinkin' Christmas lunch), called her Dad, and called the paramedics.

Jeff got there a little before the paramedics, which was good. They (paramedics) decided to put a brace on her neck and put her on a back board, then take her to the ER.

At the ER they examined her, then took her back for x-rays (at which point I showed up).

Luckily, all was well; nothing broken, and with an afternoon of rest (cause, yeah, nothing moves fast in the ER, so we were there for over three hours), the pain subsided as well.

She's now on th chaise, plaing NBA 09 with her brother, is alert, not in pain, and her normal, exuberant Grace self.

But I'd really rather not go through that again!