Tori and Zach Roloff got the shock of their lives when their son Jackson hit the corner of a chair. The Little People Big World family was playing a pickup game of hockey when the accident occurred.
It had been barely an hour since Tori Roloff had returned home from her trip to Disneyland when Jackson crashed into the corner of a chair. She and her husband, Zach Roloff, had to rush to urgent care.
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Jackson Roloff crashed into a chair
Jackson Roloff was playing hockey with his family at home when he suddenly crashed into a wooden chair. He hit the corner of the chair, which Tori described as a “cushion,” and cracked his head.
The young man fell backwards in the corner while trying to catch the ball, before his neck broke. At the time, Tori had only been home for an hour, but “responded brilliantly” to the incident.
“Tori expresses a lot of anxiety and fear to our children when they get hurt. The children look directly at her and then cry and get scared. He’s gotten a lot better at staying calm,” Zach said.
Tori and Zach rush to urgent care.
Tori and Zach rushed to urgent care after Jackson’s accident. She stated that her husband “almost panicked” because “there’s a lot of blood from the wounds on his head,” which Zach described as a “solid cut.”
“I saw a lot of blood coming out,” Zach added, remembering how Jackson touched his head and had blood on his hand. “I was bleeding, so I thought, ‘Where does he have to go? What do we have to do?’”
They took Jackson straight to the bathroom and wiped him down with a towel. Tori then ran and got something to compress his head to stop the bleeding, explaining that her son never cried.
Tori then ended up calling a family friend for advice, who urged them to take Jackson to urgent care. Zach believed he would need stitches, and along the way, Jackson continued asking them questions about the hospital.
“He was very calm during that. When we entered the room, he is totally fine, he told the story to the doctors. They put him to sleep, but it wasn’t until they put three staples in that he cried and I cried,” Tori said.
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