Della was all right and in traction with a plasma drip, intravenous pain killers and blood thinners with 15min blood tests and I took care to send a note with Debbie to school today updating them as the school bus children had witnessed the scene.
We got a folder of get-well cards from Little Paxton schoolchildren and I took Debbie with me to see Della and Diana later at the hospital.
A better night's sleep and so much rested when awaking this I was up at 5.00am this morning, getting showered, shaved and dressed and the breakfast laid out ready for Debbie to get up. At 6.00am, I felt able to call the Holly Ward staff and asked about Della and was told that she passed the night well and both her and Diana were OK. I asked in particular about any signs of concussion and there were none. I then telephoned Di's parents (who were difficult to raise) and asked Norma to come over and give some support to Di. Then my sister to get her to tell Mum gently later on and to ask her about the fibia fracture and make sure she was informed.
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Then I woke Debbie up and got her getting ready for school whilst I finished getting the breakfast ready. I dropped her off at the school bus stop with a note for her headmaster that I had written late the night before. It explained exactly what had happened and that Della was going to be all right. Della had skipped across the road after getting off of the school bus and had been hit by the car. The bus had to stay in position for half an hour with all of the Kimbolton School Children looking on and I felt that both they, and the driver, would need reassurance after such a traumatic ordeal.
Then I rushed to the hospital and up to Holly Ward. Di was red-eyed and Della still groggy but at least she was all right with just the leg injury. All the time from the arrival of the ambulance, she had a plasma drip and now they set up some A Rh+ve blood and so she was quite festooned. These were being fed into her lower left arm and in the upper arm was a tube and valve for the introduction of pain-killers without need for constant injection. She had blood pressure measurements every fifteen minutes or so and blood tests constantly taken.
Thus we spent the day and with her right leg in a painful traction with spasms occasionally making her jump with acute pain. In the afternoon, some children from Paxton School came round and presented me with a folder full of get-well cards from Della's former classmates and I was very touched by this gesture and shed some of my own tears to relieve my tension. I left for home and to meet Debbie at the bus stop and cross the road with her. I was joined by the Law family and then the Rev Peter Lewis also stopped in his car and came over for a chat whilst we waited.
When the bus arrived, I also chatted to the driver who was anxious as to the fete of Della and he agreed that he was lucky to see her so slightly affected. Home with Debbie to make her some tea and then along to the hospital ward to see Della together. She was glad to see her sister settled and had news from school where Della was the talking point. I came back with Debbie dead beat and collapsed into bed at 8.00pm, leaving Debbie to get to bed and finish off any homework that had to be done.