Today at Steph and Pete's skating lesson, a woman fell and hit her head on the ice, hard. The EMTs were called, and they immobilized her and strapped her to a stretcher to take her to the hospital. She never lost consciousness, but she was definitely in pain. Meanwhile, it fell upon all the moms to realize that she had a young daughter there, too, having a skating lesson. One mom found the girl, another mom got the girl's home phone number to call her dad, another mom (there with the girl's classmate) held her hand, and another mom (yours truly) tagged after the EMTs to ask them to wait a minute so she could her see her mom before they put her in the ambulance. Then, as if he had just read my recent post, a policeman appeared with a teddy bear for the little girl. My eyes filled up with tears, and I made sure my kids saw what was going on. I said, "Remember all those stuffed animals we collected for the policemen? This is why they need them!"
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