Well we decided to do an easy 10 mile cycle on a local bike path with 5 yo sonny on his newish bike (€25 in a car boot sale) and 3 yo Princess on a seat on the back of mine.
It was really a really glorious day.
Sonny was inclined to look behind to talk to me and his sister.
I warned him to look ahead and stay on his side of the bike path.
As we approached a tunnel he turns around to tell his sister to scream going through the tunnel...as he is looking back, he cycles up a rock and then a low wall and somersaults landing on the corner of the wall on the top of his head...I screamed like a banshee, as I saw it all happening in slow motion.
He really landed on the top of his head. Thank God he had his helmet on and I had refitted it before we left as it was wobbling a bit. He would definitely have a fractured skull if he didn't have the helmet.
As it was he left a chunk of his face on the wall and has friction burns on his face and required 3 stitches on a hole that almost went right through his cheek. I have to say I was sooooooooooo relieved that he didn't have a head injury though.
We brought him up to a nearby rafting centre and two different people volunteered to examine him....one seemed to be a paramedic and was advising me to call an ambulance (for transport..its wasn't an emergency thing..honest Granny!) and the second guy seemed to be a doctor.
Dh had cycled home to get the car...and discovered I had the keys....so I had to ring a friend to come get us and bring us to the hospital.
We were seen straight away. They gave him entonox and the a local anaethetic and sewed it up...it was too ragged for glue. He laughed like a drunk right through.
On a financial note we presented our European Health Insurance Card at reception and we ushered right through. This free card covers any EU citizens for emergency care in another EU country.
And we will all live happily ever after...thanks to bike helmets.
(His sister was wearing her ski helmet..yes I'm a tight wad.)
On the upside...
Ds is absolutely obsessed with Ferraris and has never seen one up close in real life. After the hospital we drove back to get the bikes and there was a ferrari club at the rafting centre....about 20 ferraris...he was blown away...and probably still drunk from the entonox!
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