Crazy Day

I knew today was going to be good when 23 of my 24 angels brought their re-enrollment forms back as asked. Wow... they do listen! I was pleased... they had a great morning and things started off well. When they came back from specials we had a hard time on the carpet but really got things together. We got through our phonics, and reading and things were still going well. We moved into workshop time (which is when they are supposed to be at stations) yet they are currently sitting at their desks doing packets until they earn the privilege back.

So we go to lunch and recess and I'm in a pretty good mood still! YAY Here is when things got crazy.

I came back from my bathroom break to find one of my students laying in the mulch with his feet up in the swing. I find this strange but I stomped over there to scold the child for laying in wet mulch. When I got there he was looking straight through me and not being responsive. I asked another teacher to try to talk to her and she got the same response.

So the two of us picked up the child and all of his dead weight and helped him as he stumbled his way over to the bench. He was acting drunk and totally unresponsive. So I'm starting to panic, but still pretty calm on the outside. I got administration and we finally got him into the office where the decision was made to call 911. Within about 10 minutes we had 3 firemen and 3 emts in the small office with me the child the principal and the dean. Talk about overwhelming. So they are checking this and that and asking all of these questions and things weren't getting any better. When asked to hold a cup the little boy reached his pinky out, which showed me again his motor skills were suffering. By this point we have discussed that the child has had seizures in the past and the child had clearly had a seizure.

We were unable to get in contact with Mom so the emts wouldn't leave because they needed to know whether or not to take him to the hospital. Finally after a friend of moms told us she now worked at some gyno on such and such road, I googled those two pieces of information and called about 6 offices in search of mom.

The child finally got back to his regular self, but mom came and took him home. Where were the other 23 kiddos? Well they were split half and half between my team teachers classrooms. BLESS them. Without any questions they interrupted their entire afternoons to keep my kids while I was helping this child. Then after my hour and a half of stress, and the other teachers hour and a half of 12 extra kids we all decided to watch magic school bus for the rest of the afternoon.

Seeing how worried I had been really forced me to realize how much I love these kids. Even through the unending amounts of stress they put me through on a daily basis.

Here is to a calmER and uneventful day tomorrow.