Subtitled: More things you don’t want to hear from your kids.
“How can you tell if you have a concussion?” Theresa asks me.
“Why?”
“I jumped on _____’s back…”
I immediately cut in yelling, “What??? Are you out of your freaking mind? Do you remember what happened the last time you did that? You know – the whole ankle thing?!”
“Well he was just throwing me onto the bed. Except I bounced and slammed my head into the wall and saw stars. Then I was nauseous the rest of the night and had a really bad headache. I still have a headache and feel light headed.”
“Uh, yeah, it sounds like you may have a slight concussion,” I tell her as I’m thinking okay, she didn’t drop dead during the night so I guess it can’t be too bad or life threatening.
The girl is on her way home so once she arrives (only a 15 minute drive from school) I’m checking her pupils & asking a million questions. (Hey, I watch all those medical shows so even though I’ve been out of the medical field for 20 years, I still think I know what I’m doing.) Then she’s off back to school after I tell her she has to take it easy and she is to check in with me often.
Several hours later, Frank & I are at a dinner at our parish when I get a text message. The message says, “Do you think it’s okay if I go to the gym tonight?” I stared at the message in amazement. I kept my reply short. “Uh, NO!”
Completely on a tangent, or more of a rant, what the hell is the deal with websites that promote gossip and online bullying? This isn’t even just at the junior high school or high school level, either. We’re talking college. You would think people in college would be somewhat more mature and you’d think people who run websites would be more responsible but apparently not.
There is this college gossip website. It’s a free for all. You can name names and basically make up whatever you want about people. And they do. I’ve heard about it before from my daughter but tonight I went to look at it when I found out she was a victim. The entire site is just absolutely disgusting and there is nothing illegal about it. No laws, nothing. I just don’t get it.
Is this site’s participants all at T’s college?
I’ve seen those sites for high school and they are so stupid. I’m pretty sure most people know it isn’t true.
It’s a few different colleges on there, not just Theresa’s. And I know most of the kids know those sites are basically a bunch of BS but I guess it still doesn’t stop it from being hurtful when you see stuff on there about yourself.
In this particular case, we’re pretty sure we know who started the trashing and considering I allowed this kid to stay in my home for a week when his parents supposedly threw him out, I’d personally like to smash his face in. (He’s a pathological liar so the whole parents thing turned out to be a load of crap.)