Fun on camp!

I am back home after a week of camp and trying to get my permit so that I can do it on my own.  Well talk about being action packed on top of the programme! On the first day my son ended up in casualty after coming off a mountain bike!!!  He had definately knocked himself out as his left eye was huge and he was bleeding everywhere (both arms, head, knuckles), and didn’t know where he was as he just repeated the same questions and statements!!!  so off we trundle to the hospital – where they asked me why I hadn’t dialed 999 – well I ask you – it was quicker to get him to an MIU as it was 5 mins down the road and there wasn’t a 3 hour waiting time!  As camp lead I couldn’t be long as I needed to be back on camp so after 1/2hr and knowing they were going to do a head scan I returned to the camp, I sent down someone he knew to be with him as he waited and was taken to x-ray.  Talk about split allegencies - I was responsible for all the others on the camp too so couldn’t remain off site for more than a short time! It was a further 3 hours before I could get the scan results, by phone (they wouldn’t give them to the other adult so she returned to camp).  There was an ambulance standing by in case he needed to be rushed to another hospital using blues and twos if  he had fluid within the skull !!  Luckily for him the swelling and closing of his eye  was where the fluid had gone, and so he was resleased four hours after going in.  He still wasn’t right – repeated things, asked the same questions etc.  It took another 24hours and 12 hours of sleep to bring him back to the real world.  He couldn’t remember what had happened or the trip to the hospital basically he had lost 24 hours!! No one knew what had actually happened so we took the bike out of circulation and kept it safe as we wanted the opinion of someone neutral. After some deliberation it was agreed that the back brakes locked and the front brakes didn’t work, so he didn’t stand a chance.  My son is back to his old self except he is still mourning the loss of the day, at least it wasn’t a youngster that this happened to I had to be thankful for that if nothing else.  Apart from this, and someone cutting themselves and having to go to the MIU to have it glued, it was quite a successful camp.  But we will have to wait and see if I got my permit.  So watch this space!  Who said camp was boring – they obviously haven’t camped with me!!!!!!!

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