Thank you so much for the time you took to respond. I apologize for the delay in my response but I was having trouble getting back to this board.

In response to your questions. When they were playing the hallway (walking to the locker room) there were no coaches present. They were dismissed from film review and the players started to walk out in small groups and this is when this happened. Another kid came around the corner and saw him passed out and his friends shaking him. He went to notify the coaches and they in turn rushed to my son who was already in the bathroom. So the coaches (had they been present) knew he shouldn't have been moved. And they never contacted the EMTs. I was called and asked where I was located and that I needed to hurry to the school because he needed to go to the ER. I arrived about 15-20 minutes later and he was sitting in a chair by the coaches office and was shaking his head (like he was having foggy thoughts) and kept repeating the same questions.

1. What day is it?
2. Did we have film review?
3. Are these my clothes?
4. What happened?
5. Do I have a girlfriend?
6. Have we played football? (And he was 4 scrimmages and 2 actual games into their season and watching the film review of the game the previous night).
7. Do I have a concussion?

Our experience at the University of Kentucky ER was less than desirable. First we got there and he was still asking those same questions. And they did take him right in and put us in a room. A "student" doctor came in and looked into his eyes and pushed on his neck and said he didn't believe that they needed to do x-rays or CT scan because if he was injured he would know it. Then the senior doctor came in about 2 hours later and overruled him. She said to put him in a neck brace immediately and to order the CT Scan and X-Rays. She also said that she would be back every 30 minutes and he needed to remember these 4 words (Obama, Horse, Shoe, Turkey). Well an hour later he still hadn't been taken down for x-rays or CT and no one came in to check on us in the room but my husband and I continued to answer all 7 questions he asked each time and in return would ask him what were the 4 words he was suppose to remember. He answered "no excuses just win" which is the team motto. But never remembered the words. At this point he was almost asleep in the room and complaining of his head hurting and the lights bothering him. The nurse said she would bring Tylenol (which never happened) and turned the lights off. He was an emotional roller coaster. He and his girlfriend had broken up on Monday and it was Friday. So I would tell him that he didn't have a girlfriend and he would start to cry and then laugh and say I don't know why I'm crying. Then start the questions again. He did complain of neck pain which they said was normal.

As far as why they didn't keep him there was no reason given. I didn't know this wasn't suppose to happen or I would have made a stink about it. I was nervous because I thought you aren't suppose to let someone who had a head injury go to sleep and they said it was ok to let him sleep and no need to wake him just let him sleep.

I am truly grateful for your information and appreciate any additional information you have.