Jayden Head first into a cement wall

Saturday, December 27, 2008 Today started out as a ho hum nothing sort of a day. Judy went shopping with Niki and her kids. They needed to buy a gift for Wendy Rhodes wedding shower and then they went to the shower. I dinked around the house doing nothing. Later, Corey, Jayden and Bailey came over to borrow Niki’s snowboard and set up the bindings to fit Jayden. He is quite the athlete and has been using a kid’s wakeboard as a snowboard. This real one was hoped to be better. I decided to go to the amphitheater in Eagle Mountain and watch them use the hill, especially Jayden on the “new” board. A couple of days ago, before yesterday’s icy cold front with it’s new snow came through, Judy and I watched them slide down the same hill. It wasn’t too slick and almost everyone came to a stop well before the bottom of the hill and especially without hitting the cement wall at the bottom. Today was different. The snow was packed solid and was icy slick. Jayden decided to use the old wakeboard first to get used to the hill. He did fine and walked back up to top of the hill. Bailey talked Corey into going down tandem with her using their two round; one blue and one green dish shaped sleds. Corey sat on one with his feet on the other. Bailey sat on the one Corey’s feet were on and down they went. They hit into the cement wall but Corey was able to control everything so that they were fine. When Corey and Bailey got back to the top of the hill, Jayden jumped on one of the dish shaped sleds and down he tore. He slammed right into the cement wall face first. Corey and I watched it happen in what seemed to be slow motion. There was nothing we could do about it. Corey went to the bottom of the hill as fast as he could while still keeping his balance. To me it seemed to take forever. By the time he got there, there were a couple of other parents hovering over Jayden. He was up and walking but his face was bloody and he had a doosy of a goose egg on his forehead right between his eyes. He had hit his forehead, his nose and mouth. He was bleeding from his nose but that soon stopped. He cut the inside of his upper lip but not too badly. The two adults who got there first asked him his name when his birthday was and other questions, trying to determine if he had gotten a concussion. He responded positively. As luck would have it, a dentist, someone Corey knew and had just signed up for credit card processing was in the parking lot at the top of the hill when we reached it. He looked Jayden over and thought he would be ok, but at my encouragement we decided to take him to the Instacare facility by Café El Lago in Saratoga Springs. Corey dropped me off at home first so I could get my wallet, then we drove separately to the Instacare. About half way there I found myself crying. I have really gotten to be a softy in recent years; i.e. more so than I used to be. I guess I always have been somewhat of one. By the time he got in to see the doctor the knot on Jayden’s head had gone way down and by the time we were eating at Café El Lago later it was hardly noticeable though you could still see the scrapes and abrasions up and down his face and he was able to laugh about himself and all that had transpires. As a side note, while we were waiting for his turn to see the doctor, a lady came flying through the door carrying a child who was or had been unconscious. They of course took him right in and a few minutes later carried him out and headed for the emergency room. As it turned out, he did the same thing Jayden did and on the same hill. Corey knows someone at city hall and is going to get hold of him and see if they can put some stray or hay bails or something else in front of the cement wall to protect other sliders.