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Max
Max
4 pages
Author: Emily Johnson
Bicycle
Bravery
Hospital
Adventure
Family
Summary
Max, 1.5 years old, rides home from nursery with his father, as he does every afternoon. As always, he sits on his father's bike seat. Today, his father has forgotten Max's helmet, which has happened several times before On the way home, they stop at the bakery again. As Max's father finds it too difficult to unbuckle his bike, he parks it right in front of the bakery. He just wants to go inside quickly to buy a loaf of bread. As he orders inside, he hears noise outside and the bakery sales clerk screams and shouts that his bike has fallen over. His father runs out of the store and Max seems to have hit his head. Max looks dazed and barely reacts when his father rushes to him. He immediately takes care of Max, unstraps him and takes him in his arms. He looks desperate and asks the bakery assistant who has come out of the store to call an ambulance. While they wait for the ambulance, Max vomits several times. When the ambulance arrives and Max is placed on the stretcher, he briefly loses consciousness and a bleeding wound can be seen on his right temple. His father is completely distraught and cries bitterly. The paramedics calm him down and dress Max's wound, but he wakes up again and starts crying. The father is allowed to take the ambulance to the children's hospital. Max and his father are admitted to the hospital, where his score on the GIasgow coma scale for children is 9, confirming the diagnosis of moderate traumatic brain injury with bruising on the right. His wound can be taped and closed with terile adhesive wound strips (Steri-Strip@). A simple wound dressing is then applied, which is secured with a mesh bandage Max is very anxious the whole time he is being cared for, always seems absent, cries a lot and can hardly be calmed even by his father The nurses and doctors question the father about what happened and he provides information about Max's condition immediately after the fall.
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