It started out as just another family walk ...

 It was after dinner on a beautiful Sunday and we started out on our usual Sunday family walk. This time the kids grabbed a frisbee to play with while we walk the neighborhood. The Emonz were out enjoying the comfortable weather as well. Devon and Robert were ahead (and getting along so nicely - which is such a nice sight to see) while Mark and I were back with the girls. Mark would throw the frisbee to one of the boys and they would throw it back. Every once in a while I would intercept the frisbee and toss it to the boys. My arm isn't nearly as strong as any of theirs.

Well, this is were this is going to get difficult for me to recap... Mark mad a perfect throw to Robert but the wind caught it vesting it slightly to the left. Robert has his eye on the frisbee and adjusts his footing while running to be in position to catch the frisbee and doesn't see that he runs right into the fire hydrant, which doesn't budge and flips him head first into the concrete sidewalk. Robert lands head first followed by his left knee. He ran full force without any knowledge - I yelled out for Robert to watch out as soon as I saw the hydrant there but it was too late. Everything from this point on was all in super fast motion ... Robert didn't move ... All five of us ran to him as fast as we could. Betsy was the first there. "Robert, where do you hurt?" he doesn't answer, but grabs his knee. Mark asks, "Robert did you hit your head?"  Betsy examines what she can see, and then rolls him over to see if he hit anywhere else. OH MY Goodness, a HUGE goose egg jets out of the left side of his head.  This can't be happening. He was the one that was hurt last year with a severe head injury.  Oh my goodness!

Immediately the whole family moves into action -"Jessica run and get my keys, says Mark. Mark scooped Robert's limp body into his arms and carries him back to the house. We load him in the car his head resting on Betsy's lap while Mark drives to Kosair's Children Hospital's emergency room. They admit him immediately, is seen by the doctor who orders x-rays of his knee & pelvis, c-spine and a cat scan.

Robert is really confused and doesn't understand what happened or where he is! This is very concerning to Mark and I. He knows his name, school, grade, friends, family, birthday and everything prior to the accident, but he doesn't understand what happened to him - and in all honesty, understandably because he didn't see what hit him, or what happened to him after he hit the hydrant.

Robert threw up while getting x-rays and then again around 10:30.  Around that same time Trevor Olsen came to assist Mark in giving Robert a blessing.  The Kosair at Brownsboro transported him via ambulance to Kosair's downtown after confirming there were NO internal injuries and NO broken bones!  All test so far are very favorable in Robert's recovery.  This news was a huge blessing and miracle.  An accident like that was cause of much concern - it was very comforting to find out there wasn't anything beyond the concussion.

Betsy went with Robert in the ambulance to Kosair downtown while Mark went back to the house to be with the other kids.  They were all very worried about Robert.