Caller ID: Unknown Number No message left. We roll over and go back to sleep.
one hour later
Caller ID: Unknown Number Message: This is Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio....Angela dives for the phone as Em, our 16-year old plays the 8-man position on her high-school rugby team and is playing some games in Columbus. It's the registration desk wanting some insurance information and a permission... Ang wants to know what happened. The registration desk can't say but they want some information...Ang (now getting a bit more assertive) "What happened to my daughter!!?" Now, on speaker phone, I hear babbling about insurance and other stuff while Ang is trying to deal with what this is all about. Finally, the registration clerk says that it says something about 'Head-Neck' injury.
To put things in perspective, Ang spent 10 years working in rehab, we also shipped my sister off to the US a few years ago with 'Head-Neck' injuries. She remains paralyzed. A local high-school kid recently became a quadriplegic during a football practice.
Needless to say, a wave of panic rolls in as we just can't get any information, the registration desk keeps harping on about information (which they actually had there if they would only have flipped over a sheet we sent along with our daughter.) Finally we get a doctor who tells us that there are no serious injuries, just the odd chance of a light concussion and she's fine to travel home on the 8 hour bus-ride.
I guess that's one way t start a Sunday..
Which left us wondering WTF is a registration clerk doing calling anybody with potentially very serious news? Was the money that much more important?