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| Sat, 11-10-2007 - 6:11am |
If this was a test, I sure hope we both passed. Yesterday morning, Haley fell in gym and broke her arm. She dislocated and fractured her right elbow. I have never seen her in so much pain and it just killed me not being able to make it better. She had to have surgery to put in two pins to hold the elbow together. It was the most horrible ordeal I have ever been through with her. She is not only an Aspie but she has major anxiety issues. She was screaming at the top of her lungs for so long. We were at the hospital for a total of 13 hours and most of it was spent with her screaming. Of course the doctor had to come in and talk about surgery right in front of her and I was like, "No... we need to talk outside. She can't hear this right now!" But it was too late. She heard.
Long, long, long story short, she did very well and is home resting. I have always worried about how she would handle things if she ever had to be in the hospital and now I know. Not well. But I am so proud of her and she is getting a nice reward for being so brave and getting through this.
Now the school on the other hand won't be so lucky. I am ready to rip someone apart over this. For one thing, when I was there picking Haley up, she was screaming in pain and I was trying to get her out the door. The teacher brought up her things and immediately started explaining homework assignments to me! WHAT??? Um, my daughter is in serious pain and she has the nerve to stand there and explain homework? OMG!!!
And then there is the worthless gym teacher of hers. Apparently, while she was on the floor screaming, he stood there and did nothing. Another class's teacher had to come help her!! I want his head on a platter right now. I'm extremely angry over this. It may or may not be his fault that this happened but the fact that he did nothing at all makes me a bit angry. What, did he think she was faking? Typical. Same thing happened when my oldest daughter broke her ankle last year.
I think the school needs to be held responsible for this... accident or not. And I'm not 100% sure yet if it was really an accident so we'll see. But I've informed them already that she had to have surgery and I'm going to be calling them again next week. We have military insurance that will cover 100% but I think the school needs to pick up the tab for this one. Either way, they aren't getting off easy after the day/night we both had yesterday.


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Mom to Erin (19) and Haley (10yo Aspie)
Mom to Erin (19) and Haley (10yo Asp
((Jill))
I'm sorry I'm so late, but my heart goes out to Haley.
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