And trying to apply carpet to your head results in...

According to me - the weekend from hell!
According to W - an awful headache and an extended ban from soccer due to concussion!

Thurs morning we were rushing to get out to an appointment (what a surprise - either running late or having an appointment to go to - take your pick!) and W fell UP the stairs. True skill...

He appeared beside me pale, wobbling and telling me he'd seen bright coloured flashes, had double and blurred vision and felt sick - and then proceeded to wretch!

I took him to the doc a couple of hours later (I had an appointment I'd waited 6 months for!) and he got a reasonably clean bill of health but to be watched as he had concussion and whip lash type injuries. Remember he fell UP 1 stair with was carpet covered! W doesn't do anything by halves!
As T had his 2 weekly weigh in the next day the GP wanted to see W as well to check he was improving as expected.

He was irritable, headachy and generally concussed and horrible all day on Thurs. Friday he seemed better, all over the place and very hyper, but couldn't concentrate, although I sent him to piano anyway - mean mother :-)
The GP checked him over and decided things weren't resolving the way she'd like and so called the hospital and then sent us to the ED. This is Friday evening...N was at swimming with my mother, T was tired, P still has problems with his foot and can't walk far and the hospital is going to be crazy - so off we went!

We sat around for 90 mins before getting to see a doctor. She said he had a better than 50% chance of being admitted, possibly needed a scan and the paeds surgical reg would be down at 9pm - so about an hour away. So I called P, told him to take the other two home - and grabbed a biscuit from the vending machine in the waiting room!

I'd had 2 bites when another doctor appeared and told me that he'd done lots of reading about head injuries, and had some experience with them and didn't believe that W needed a scan, or an admission or that anything was more than a concussion and not to worry. Apparently the odds are very small that they'd have missed anything and anything would go wrong - and so I could go home!

So I quickly called P back and got dinner and ourselves home. W was clearly not right - he was half way through a hamburger and got up, got a knife and fork and sat down, trying to eat it with those!!!

We also discovered - finally home, tired, hungry, stressed - that the drains in the kitchen were blocked! Dishwasher, sink and insinkerator all blocked! Our attempts to clear it resulted in yucky water all over the floor which needed a double wash kind of approach. Mopping the floor at 11pm after 90 mins in the ED is NOT my favourite way to spend a Friday evening.

Saturday morning brought us - a kitchen with still blocked drains, fatigue due to waking W 2 hourly through the night, and a W who still had double vision, a headache and then threw up his breakfast and complained his fingers were progressively becoming numb. And so we headed back to the ED!

I'd hoped we'd miss the sporting injuries but got caught up in something much worse! The computers crashed hospitalwide! So they couldn't clear patients being transferred to the wards easily so it took longer to get from the waiting room to see a doctor. We were extra unlucky as we arrived BEFORE the computer crash so W was entered into the system - and then lost.
Thankfully I had a print out of who we'd seen the night before and their findings and so was able to get them to look at that and they didn't need the computer so much for him.
But it was still a5 hour wait before we saw a doctor - and he got a dose of a low grade painkiller and sent home!

Thankfully, W is getting better each day, the drains got unblocked on Monday, the dishwasher fixed today - and we've gone a long way through our stack of plastic plates :-)