it's Caleb.
So I walked in his room to check on him,
and I immediately knew
something was wrong.
I flipped on the lights
and he was lying on his bed in a seizure.
And while Caleb has never
had seizures before,
I have seen seizures before,
and I immediately recognized what it was,
and I called to him, "Caleb."
And I knew he needed help.
So I ran out of the room
and grabbed my phone,
and as I was coming back in
the seizure stopped.
I'm so grateful that it was not very long.
And he was still lying there.
He wasn't responding to us.
He couldn't talk and his
body was still stiff.
I scooped him up in my arms
and called for help.
Jeremy was out of town so a friend
came to help me with the kids,
and I took Caleb to the emergency room.
They did a CATThis is an intriguing photograph since many rural settlements were decimated by losses in the Great War. Were all these men from Leochel-Cushnie? Given the losses in the 6th and 7th Gordon Highlanders in 1915, and the subsequent ravages of the Great Influenza Epidemic at the end of the War, it's perhaps surprising to find so many survived. For an interesting contrast, try reading No Thankful Village by Chris Howell (Fickle Hill 2002, ISBN 0 947660 04 6) which gives an account of the effects of the Great War on a similar rural area in Somerset.