Ambulance Adventures

Today was quite an adventure. Since it's the weekend, we planned a trip up to Port Douglas and Mossman Gorge... Only in the morning Littletree had an accident.

She was playing with some friends, a bit rough and tumble, and fell headfirst down a full flight of stairs - about 2.5M onto her head. Lush (the gorgeous woman formerly known as Rapunzel),  picked Littletree up and her eyes were rolling back in her head, but she came to and started crying like a normal kid.

I held her, she was sweating and screaming for a while, and she seemed okay, but then she fell asleep. It was hard to wake her up, and then she was moaning that her tummy ached. She vomited and then passed out again, all floppy and unresponsive.

We got worried, but I didn't want to rush off to the hospital, so Lush called a healthcare hotline. Given that Littletree was vomiting, going in and out of consciousness, and had bruising around her eyes, they called an ambulance on our behalf.

Having an ambulance come was pretty scary, well, I got frightened. Though they were only coming to check on Littletree and see if she was alright.

Of course, when the paramedics came in, they checked Littletree and said we need to take her into the hospital. I tried not to cry, carrying my little girl into an ambulance.

She woke up a bit on the ride, just in time to vomit again all over me. The triage went quickly and we were brought in to a bed to await the doctor. By the time the doctor came, Littletree was recovering, seemed mostly okay. The doctor said she had a bad concussion, but should be fine.

They kept us for observation for a couple of hours; Littletree was given a popsicle made of re-hydration salts which perked her up a bit, and she spent a while playing with the electronic bed controls.

Eventually we were released with instructions to keep an eye on Littletree and make sure she doesn't get any more signs of head injury.

Since I hadn't even had breakfast yet, Lush went to get us a luscious picnic lunch from a fantastic organic cafe, and we sat under a shady tree by the sea to eat it. After lunch we decided to go to a nice gelateria and have ice cream. YUM!

Phew; what a long day! I'm glad Littletree is fine... but the worst part: in all the stress of going to the hospital, I didn't take my camera, so I didn't take any pictures. So here's a really gorgeous one of Littletree from last week.