We dashed off to the clinic on Royal Oaks Blvd. Greg called the daycare and spoke with the director. He put her on the speaker phone and told her that we wanted a written report of what had happened, how did he fall. She got the teacher and answered the question. The teacher said that he had been pushing a large plastic truck around and tripped over his own feet. He went down and didn’t get back up. Several teachers had looked him over without finding anything wrong (not known if anyone other than his teacher knew about the fall). The director apologized and said procedure had not been followed. She had not known when talking to me on the phone about the crying that he had fallen. A lot of time was spent with ‘procedure was not followed.’ Greg told her that this was the largest bone and he wanted a writeup. She said she’d give him a copy of her paperwork but that they would not file an accident report after the fact.

We were seen almost immediately and I was stopped from doing the paperwork. The specialist had looked at the x-rays and told us that we had to go to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. He said that a special table was needed to put on Williams cast and it was only available there. Greg had taken William from the van and never put him down. We got directions and the dr’s name at Vanderbilt and left. We called back once to see if the children’s hospital had an emergency room or if there was a central ER for Vanderbilt.

We decided to go pick MaryVic up. Called the daycare and told the director we had to go to Vanderbilt and were on the way to get Mary. She had her ready at the door. Came to the van while Greg was loading Mary and apologized, looking tearful. We stopped and got gas. I called a co-worker about the situation and once Greg was back in the van, we called some friends. They were extremely gracious and when Greg asked them for a huge favor, to take care of Mary while we went to the hospital, they agreed. We dropped Mary off and were back on the way to Vanderbilt. William was largely okay in the back being still and watching a movie.