A Thankful Mother

I have to put in writing what we experienced yesterday......
We were at Riverside Country Club for swim lessons. After Karson, Taylor and Cooper (nephew) finished their lesson, Karson wanted to go off the diving board. He'd gone off the low dive several time last year and a few times this year. The day before yesterday he wanted to see if he was tall enough to go off the high dive. Well, he was tall enough. Karson grinned from ear to ear, so excited and feeling pretty big and independent. Karson went off the high dive the day before yesterday a few times with no problem. Karson, feeling pretty cool wanted to show everyone how he could go off the high dive. Their was a lot of people to impress with his courage. Aunts Crystal & Andrea, Nanny Camberlango, and cousins, Jordan, Little Jo, Cooper, Hailee and Sadie and his sister Taylor were all their. We weren't going to stay and swim yesterday after swim lesson because I was watching Mandy's (sister in-law) kids. I told Karson he could go off the diving board then we'd have to leave. He went down and decided to go off the low dive. He jumped off and felt pretty cool. He wanted to do the high dive once before we left. He walks over waits his turn. He proceeds to climb up the ladder to the high dive. He was almost to the top. We think he was 2nd stair to the top when all of the sudden my little guy loose his balance. Sort of rolls down the stairs and lands on the cement!!!!!! His back lands on the curb of the platform where the high dive connects to. To make it a little more clear of a picture the high dive is 12 to 13 feet tall. The bottom of his feet were about 9 feet from the ground. I was standing no more than 5 feet away from him when it happened and could not caught him. As my little guy laid there not moving (but still talking) My heart hit my stomach! I didn't dare to pick him up. As my Mom, me and lots of the cousins surround him, some medical staff come to help. Karson wouldn't move his neck, legs......nothing. We were terrified. Then a few minutes later he just stood up!!! Instantly, the relief come over me to see him stand and walk. We went to the Life Guard station and they fixed up his elbow that was bleeding. Karson didn't cry the whole time. Whimpered after it happened and said it hurts so bad but didn’t cry....Jordan his cousin said “Man Kars you’re the toughest guy I know” It was really cute.
I took Karson to the Doctors because..... I’m paranoid. The Doctor said that his spine was fine and he’d be okay. Just some soft tissue bruising. So anyways, It scared us to say the least. Riverside told him that because he was so brave they wanted to treat him to a lunch and an ice cream. Karson was way excited that he didn’t even have to give them any dollars for it! I think that made it all worth it for him LOL!
Riverside said Karson would be the first person ever to have fallen that high and not broken anything. We are pretty thankful for that and for Karson.
Thanks for your help Mom! So glad you were there!

You can kind of see in the picture the 2nd step from the top is where his feet were at and the platform at the bottom where he landed on his lower back. :(