Cartwheel
Catastrophe
I’m driving
in my car, when I get this frantic call,
My son is
asking me for advice about my grandson’s fall,
Apparently,
my grandson’s cartwheel had gone awry at school,
His arm was obviously
broken, and my son was speeding like a fool,
He had heard my
grandson in the background screaming out in pain,
When the
school called to tell him, which made him totally insane,
He had left
the house abruptly, without socks or underwear,
He was going close
to 90 mph, but he did not even care,
His son was
really hurt, and he was going to his aid,
As far as he
was concerned, he was running a blockade,
Upon arrival,
someone was holding my grandson’s dangling arm,
My son
removed his own shirt for a sling, to prevent more harm,
They walked
into a nearby ortho-clinic, but was sent straight to the ER,
Shirtless,
sockless and underwear less didn’t get my son very far,
The ER desk said,
“sir, you must wear a shirt in here”,
He said I
will when you attend to my son, whose break is very severe,
Ultimately,
my grandson had broken his arm in half,
Just above
the elbow which required surgery, stat,
Because he
had eaten lunch, surgery had to wait,
So, they did
a procedure to get his arm straight,
Later on, that
evening, his surgery was completed,
At a different
hospital, where 3 pins were inserted,
He spent the
night there and was really strong & brave,
He cooperated
fully and did not misbehave,
This energetic
little boy had to stay still to properly heal,
No running,
no jumping for weeks- it was quite an ordeal,
Tammy Harvey
01/25/2024
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