Busted.

Nov 05, 2009 19:50

And the craziness continues. Monday, we had a confirmed case of head lice in the center, therefore, all the teachers went nuts bagging up every cloth/stuffed item in the center to either be washed there or sent home to their respectful families to be washed. The following day was picture day, which was held in an area completely ripped out by the construction. I spent little time in my own classroom, running around the center aiding picture taking, giving lunch breaks, and doing Health and Safety stuff, which included a fire drill at the end of nap time. Teachers hate me on fire drill days. Wednesday was relatively normal, with the exception of having a sub in my classroom for the whole afternoon. It's so hard for the infant room to run smoothly with a sub. I pretty much have to keep track of feedings and naps of eight kids, as apposed to my normal 4. At least she was good at making sure their diapers were changed on time. Well today was no exception to the weird week. Only half an hour into my shift, I was changing a poopy (read: BLOWOUT) diaper in which I needed to retrieve clean clothes for the baby which were across the room in his cubby. I knew two crawlers were sitting directly to my right, however I did not know another child had crawled up behind me. After getting the dirty baby cleaned up and diapered, I picked him up to get his clothes (we never ever leave a child unattended on the diaper table no matter how young they are) and turned to walk to his cubby, knowing I needed to side step the other two children. I did not see the other child immediately behind me, trip over her, miss stepped and fell. My left knee hit first (and hard!) with the rest of my body to follow. Knowing I was going down without being able to stablize myself or to catch myself, I brought the 4 month old into my chest, breaking our fall with my elbows/forearms, then immediately rolled to my back as to not put any weight on his teeny body. Although completely freaked out by the rush, I managed to completely protect him and he came out of the whole thing unscathed and without even a mark. The child I tripped over was not knocked down and was also unharmed. I, however, busted my left knee. I was in a great deal of pain, though able to walk, but reported my incident immediately to my Director just in case my injuries were to worsen, or even worse the baby ended up harmed in some way. In the end I have a contusion on my left knee/shin which is in a good deal of pain. I cannot squat or kneel down which is hard to go without when you work with such teenies. Shaken as I was, I am so so glad that little baby did not get hurt. I could have crushed him, not to mention if his head had hit the tile floor as hard as my knee did, he would have gotten a concussion.

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