General Discussion & Chat: Sheesh! What a scare!!!!, 1 by raven_locks

raven_locks wrote:
Oh wow! Thanks for all the stories, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one with...let's say, "rambunctious" little ones!!!

We were up in the mountains one time with the kids, playing at a little creek, no danger of anyone drowning or anything, when my daughter, then 9, now 11, was climbing on some tree roots on the creek bank, about 7 feet up from the creek bed, (can you tell where this is going?) she took a step out onto the very edge and the whole bank gave way. I was watching, everything slowed down to slow motion for me, it was like her head was a magnet for the rocks below, she went down head first and when she hit, her whole body crumpled on top of her. It's hard to explain what it looked like, but she looked like a rag doll that you throw, and the body just kind of flops, that was what happened to Reily, it was so horrible! She was out like a light, laying in the water all crumpled, I cannot tell you how hopeless I felt at that moment!!! Here we were 40 miles from town, in a canyon, and no cell phone!!! Thank God we had onstar on the van!!! We had to drive 10 miles down out of the mountains to meet the ambulance, ACK what a fright!!!

She had a pretty large cut on the top of her head that had to have stitches, but she was totally fine! We can joke about it now, but then it was pretty darn tense!!!

Here is a picture taken just a few minutes before it happened, the tree with the circle around it between the babies is where she fell.

Raven