We passed the 24 hour mark very uneventfully—thankfully!  Son is doing much better.  He still cannot remember exactly how he got hurt.  It kills me that I didn’t see it happen.  I just keep flashing on him lying in an unmoving heap on the ice.  Not fun.

I’m so used to the type of head bonks that are accompanied by a goose-egg.  He never had but a very slight bump and now there is absolutely no outward sign of his rather dangerous injury.  I have a new appreciation for those goose-eggs and those outward signs of injury.  I would have taken that, over this, any day.

Today he is complaining of neck pain, which he had pretty bad last night as well.  He also says that everything he does feels like it’s happening in a dream.  That’s a bit scary.  Husband keeps “reminding” me that he had a brain injury.  Thanks.  I needed THAT reminder!

I have to share with you how the hospital staff was “right” with us on preparing for a law suit. (I’m being sarcastic.)  Right off the bat, they were assuming the rink was at fault and wanted “names”.  It was kinda sickening.  We just looked at them and said, “Uhhh…it was an ACCIDENT.”  This was not something they swallowed very easily.  On a higher note (and it’s totally weird that I remember this) I was looking at the young man (teenager) that helped us at the rink.  As we were leaving, he was sitting at a table with a girl and between them was an open copy of Elizabeth Elliot’s “Passion and Purity”.  Hmm.

So, more rest is in store today--at least for my boy.  I’ll be planning our school time, hoping to still start on Monday.  I suppose it’s a good thing we didn’t start Wednesday…we’d of had to have a “do over” day.  Actually, I wish we could have a “do over” day!

By the way, when we were in the ER and constantly checking his memory, he was able to remember all his scripture verses!  That just goes to show you—there are more uses for memorizing scripture than you can imagine!