OH MY GOD!!!!

[Ailsa]

We've just had the Police and Ambulance at our front door.

DH came running through to me, someone was banging and screaming on the front door. When I opened it there was a girl there with her hand covered in blood, and some bloke standing in the middle of the road watching. I told dh to go out and have a look, take his phone and ring the police if he needs it, which he duly did. There was no way I was letting her into the house with 3 kids asleep in bed, I was shaking like a leaf, feel like a drink now. We couldn't get any info from her except her name, no idea how it happened. The neighbours were out, the ones that weren't had their curtains twitching.

God, are you okay?

Oh my god. How old was the girl ?? Thats awful. I'm not surprised you were shaken.

scary Ailsa. Have that drink!

Poor you, any news.

Any news? Hope you are calmer

btw, LOVE the fact you thought of telling mumsnet, just what i'd do

sorry that wasn't meaning to sound flippant!

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Not very good at guessing ages but poss late teens/early twenties. She was obviously v.scared, kept saying that it was her own fault, and something about her 'real' mother. Once I was back in the house and I started warming up I could feel my wrist tingling, when I looked there were nail marks from when she grabbed hold of me when I had my arms around her, trying to calm her down, a mothers instinct I suppose. I found myself rubbing her back & stroking her hair, just like I do with my kids when they're upset.

A few posts have crossed there, I'll probably ring the local police station tomorrow (today)and see if there's any developments as she couldn't tell anyone where she lived.

I can just imagine the conversation with MIL, she lives at the other end of the street. She's bound to have had her curtains twitching!

MIL : Did you see the ambulance and the police down our street last night?
ME : Yes, we called them!

Then I'll tell her what happened, then she'll probably rant about how it was this, and how it was that, and that there would be no way that she'd answer her front door. 'Cos MILs know everything, don't they!

Souinds like she was tripping Ailsa.

think you were right not to let her in though, hope you are feeling better, that must have been really scary

That crossed my mind too Lou.

Lisa, I'm glad I didn't let her in as there was enough blood on the doorstep without having to clean it off the furniture as well. I've washed the step as DD1 would have freaked if she'd seen it, dh was happy for me to leave it until morning. I did check with the police first though, they came and had a look at it before I washed it.

Well, looks like thats the end of it then for you thank goodness.
Am rather tickled by image of police officers in a circle looking at your doorstep!
Hope you feel a lot better tomorrow

reminds me of the time some bloke banged on my door at my old house. We lived nextdoor to an acholoic and druggies, so we thought he belonged to them as he seemed out of it, he asked me to phone an ambulance and asked if he could sit down. We let him sit on the bottom step just inside the doorway, when he suddenly started fitting. He must have realised that he was going to have a fit and knocked on the nearest door. I ran to the phone and dialed 999, they were asking allsorts but I couldn't give them any answers, I didn't know the bloke from Adam. The operator told me to put my hand in his pockets to try and get a name, I refused, in case he was from nextdoor and had needles in his pockets. We then had to put the bloke into the recovery position, where he came round. He was fine for a few minutes then he started fitting again. I phoned 999 again, I was very scared and so was DS who was only about 1.
Not nice at all...........