Hard playground fall with no parental contact
When I picked my Kindergartener and 4th Grader up from after school care, my kindergarten winced, and started hard-crying when he took his backpack off to get in the car. The 4th Grader told me he fell during his recess (about lunchtime) and hurt his arm.
His version of the story is that he fell off the monkey bars, had the wind knocked out of him, a friend helped him up and they walked to a teacher. He was crying hard and holding his arm and because it was only the 3rd day he had to be escorted to the nurse because he was new. — I do not know what happened at the Nurse. I don’t know her diagnostic measures. — but what I do know is that he was given an ice pack and sent back.
I dropped off the older kiddo and took him right to the Urgent Care/ER and they did X-Rays and confirmed he has a fractured clavicle (broken collerbone). Other than rest, a sling, and TLC not much to be done.
But the more I sit with this the madder I get that I was not called. I know not every nurse visit warrants a phone call. But a fall resulting in a visit, should in my opinion. Now I have a little guy in a dominant arm along for 3-4 weeks! He could barely navigate with two arms.
We didn’t get home from the ER until after 9pm, so I haven’t contacted the school.,
How would you proceed?
FOLLOW UP: I briefly spoke to the principal at drop off for the older kid. I’m PTO treasurer so we have a 1:1 relationship. I told her he was hurt, and some part of the process was broken and made a time to come talk with her. I feel a lot better this morning. Kiddo slept through the night and I had to tell him to stop roughhousing with the dog this morning.