Helmets Save Lives!!

My poor baby was riding a friends bike yesterday after school and crashed into a moving car. He was flying down a hill, as fast as he could I'm sure, here at our apartments and ran right into the side of this guys vehicle. Jeremy had just gotten home from work and he and I were in the bedroom talking about his day when Dylan comes through the front door saying "mom" and another man's voice saying "Hello, Hello, Hello". I went to the door and the man said that Dylan had hit his car with his bike. Dylan wasn't crying so I asked the man if his car was okay and he just said "I'm more worried about you son". So I look at Dylan and there's tons of blood all down his leg. While Jeremy was cleaning up his leg, I was talking to the guy who left me his name and number and told me I should take him to get looked at and to please call him as soon as we get back home to let him know if Dylan was okay. Still in shock of it all, I was still calm. I went into the bathroom and his lips were bleeding and beginning to swell. I called a sitter right away for Cody and Rachael and Jeremy and I headed to the Emergency Room with Dylan.

As soon as we got there they took him straight back to Triage and about ten doctors and nurses were all around him checking him out and ordering tests. They were all so happy to hear that Dylan had been wearing his helmet. They said if probably saved his life. They did CT Scans on his head, face, neck and stomach and they took X-Rays of his chest and legs. His puncture on his leg was small, but was still bleeding the whole time we were there. All the labs and blood work came back good. No fractures and no broken bones. Now it was time to make his leg stop bleeding. They gave him Morphine and did a pressure wrap on it and it finally stopped bleeding. Next, they had to make sure he was able to walk on his leg. They put a Leg Brace on it and got him up out of the bed. He hobbled a bit and then we got to go home. He was so brave! Not one tear came from his eyes the whole time.

When we got home Cody and Rachael were so happy to see that Dylan was okay. Cody told him that if that had been him, he would have been crying like a baby the whole time. It was so cute.