Missing "All Girls" at the Yogi Bear 2008

Ladies, you will be wondering why I was not at the Yogi Bear Cabin this year. Well let me tell you...Yesterday (Saturday) afternoon I was release from the Prenatal Surveillance Unit at the Masonic Hospital after 23 hours of observation due to an unfortunate and unexpected fall at work. Here is what happened...

Last Friday while I was having lunch with one of my students at the school cafeteria, two other students (whom I do not teach) started to play rough with each other. They were running up the aisle between the tables. While wrestling, one of them got caught to my chair as I am sitting having lunch and oblivious to what is about to happen. I was suddenly dragged away from the table, fast and forcefully to the aisle between the tables. Needless to say that with the same force they dragged me out of the table, the chair was taken from underneath me causing me to fall flat on the floor hitting my bottom and my back, legs up. As I am realizing, "Oh my God! I am falling." It is interestingly (sad) enough, I do not remember anyone coming to my aid to get me off the floor. Then again my adrenaline kicked in and I got up from the floor as I could. It was all so fast. A few seconds or minutes later the whole situation was taken care of by the appropriate staff members. I end up going to the hospital as I had back pain and my belly felt heavy and strange. I started to get worried (Keelan is our first baby). I can't help to think about what would had happened if...say the students, who are football players, had accidentally fall on top of me squashing my pregnant belly? The mental image of me falling legs up is funny but soon one realizes that is not so but gruesome to think about the ifs...

The story ends well. After 23 hours of observation the doctors released me as everything seems to in good shape. However, for the next couple of days I have to be vigilant of any sudden change in the baby movements, any bleeding, etc. Today, Baby Keelan is doing fine in the womb and moving as if there was some party going on. I was a bit sore and concerned on Friday about the placenta but it is were it needs to be along with everything else. And yes, my ego has been restored. For the rest of this semester, luncheons at the cafeteria are not an option for me. At least not during peak hours. So, I will enjoy visiting with my students and having lunches in the safety and peacefulness of my classroom away from the tumultuous lunch periods. I will miss the lunchroom as I like socializing with my students but for the next four months Keelan's well-being is first.

And that is what happened...that was the reason I missed the annual "All Girls" camping trip.