Feel The Presence

So, when the wheel hit the curb, the laws of motion transfers through the front twenty inch wheel, and everything else (bike, rider, schoolbag) climbs over it as the motion carries them forward in that arc caused by the wheel size. The rider flies over the handlebars, hits rough cast wall upside down and as he grazes along it, gravity pulls him back to the surface, also face first. Things crashed around me. I remember the sounds. My bike hitting the ground, my face hitting the footpath, my satchel striking the bitumen and my body crashing on top of my face, before landing horizontally. The sound of the car driving off. What? Yep, the sound of the car driving off. I heard it, but couldn’t do anything about it. I was definitely hurt. In fact I passed out.

It was not that long before I came to again and was very disorientated. In a lot of pain. And I couldn’t see. Could not open my eyes to see. I heard quite a few voices. One or two I had heard before. They were saying ‘Lie still, it’s alright we’ll get them.” I wondered what they were going to get. I tried lying still but even that hurt. Then a really strange feeling came over me. I was not where I had been when I passed out. I tried to sit up, but apart from sending massive pain to my head, it seems someone was holding something on my head. Ah, that made sense. That would be why I couldn’t see. They were covering my eyes so I wouldn’t see…… see what?

No. I was confused. I had been on my way to school to present the talk, and I got knocked off my bike. On the side of the road where the church wall was. But now I was outside the butchers shop, on the other side. How on earth did I know that if I couldn’t see. Maybe I had. Maybe this was one of those ‘out of body experiences’ that people had talked about when they sometimes talked about my mothers powers (see blog 12^th July 2012). Maybe I had died and gone out of my body for a moment and seen…. What? Of course. People had simply carried me over to the the butchers shop. Think about it. There were no mobile phones and very few phone boxes. But someone had realised there was a telephone at the butchers shop. Logically, it was easier to pick up the injured child and carry him over beside the shop, so they wouldn’t have to shout out across the road different questions about my injuries and such when they called the ambulance. Don’t worry about moving a victim hit by a car, who may be suffering neck damage. What’s the spinal cord? What’s paralysis? The child was knocked unconscious after being knocked off his bike and thrown off the road and collided face first with a brick wall. He’ll be right. Might need a band aid plaster.

(Continued tomorrow)