TIFU because I freaked after reading a message from the school nurse.

My corporate office is in a dead zone. I saw the nurse called but with no ring so I read the transcript.

“OP’s son was in my office today and his tongue fell off. There are still little bits of it in his mouth and we need to know what to do.”

So I look at my colleague and jump up and start calling the school nurse but the call won’t go through because I’m in a dead zone.

I go outside and finally get the nurse on the phone and ask her “what are we doing - are we going to the hospital?”

It turns out the actual message stated “OP’s son was in my office today (to get his medication), but the medication was on his tongue and fell off and now there are little bits in his mouth and we don’t know what to do” (as in she didn’t know if she should give him another dose or not).

But for 20 whole minutes I thought my son’s tongue fell off. It did not, in fact, fall off.

TL;DR I read the message from the school nurse instead of listening to it because I was in a dead zone and thought my son’s tongue fell off.