It's unimaginable.

No techie blag on this one despite the amount of web service blah I've been doing recently.

I've just had one of the scariest moments of my life. My daughter was up stairs watching High School Musical 2 and all of a sudden I heard a huge crash and then she screamed. I've heard her cry before, but this was real screaming. I bolted upstairs and found her hanging upside down by her leg on the ladders at the end of her cabin bed. There really is no way to describe the feeling that hit me in the stomach. I ran over and picked her up and carried her downstairs really not knowing what to do despite all my training in first aid and dealing with injuries. I immediately began checking her legs for signs of breaks and was on the brink of calling for an ambulance. It seemed like there was no way she couldn't have broken her leg given the weird angle her leg was in when I found her and the fact she was hanging upside down by it.

After much frantic checking I'm pretty convinced that it is whole. She managed to stand on it fine and ran back up the stairs after a little while. She's going to have one hell of a bruise though.

It really badly shook me up though, based on when I broke my leg and had to spend three months not being able to put weight on it and then another three months of physio. That really got me down and I was 23. I really couldn't imagine what an impact that would have had on the life of a five year old.

Anyways, thankfully she's okay. I now need to drink a lot of wine and smoke many cigarettes to try and calm down.