Well, I've known my friend H for nearly 4 years, and we've never come across a CP related issue while we've been out. Until last night, at an ice hockey game with our 2 friends.
When her hip came out.
And I was hopelessly panicked and worried, and useless. Managed to get a message to our friends (we sit by the ice, they're in the stands, as H uses a wheelchair), then just, cried. I was worried, had no idea what to do, what was going to happen or anything, and hated seeing a friend in pain and not being able to do anything.
A LOVELY man who we sit with had a WAV, as his partner travels in her wheelchair, and a good thing too, as the team doctor was so close to calling an ambulance. This lovely guy dropped us at A&E, and we waited.
For 2 hours, with H's hip still out. Because there were no trollies so we couldn't go to X-ray. Then our friends arrived after the game, and we got a cubicle. Then when she was in x-ray her hip popped back in, but she had one sort of numb patch on her leg. So that set me off crying again, as I'd been regularly updating H's mum and faced the prospect of telling her that H was being admitted. At a hospital in Manchester, when we live in Staffordshire.
Then luckily, they said it was because a nerve had been bruised, and we were free to go. We arrived at 7pm, we left at midnight.
I just wish I'd been calmer and more, with it, if you know what I mean. I felt so hopeless and rubbish, and H was just...calm. Her hip's come out before so she's used to it.
I honestly don't know how you lovely ladies cope when your dc's are in hospital, as this was only a friend and it just threw me! So, we learnt that the ice hockey community looks after their own last night, apparently loads of people were asking after H after we'd left, which was lovely to know.
Anyway, sorry, I'm tired, and needed to write it all down, and I know you lot won't tell me to get a grip! Well, you might, but you'll be nice about it!