Everything goes through your mind in the seconds immediately following someone suffering what could be a severe injury.
It's tough on a coach to see that happen to one of their athletes, it's even tougher when that coach happens to be Mom.
Killingly gymnastics coach Robin Deary-Fillmore said she experienced a quick range of emotions after seeing her daughter, Kasey, fall from the bars last Tuesday in the worst fall she has seen in her gym in a quarter-century.
"I made sure she was physically OK, that she was only hurt and not injured and that her college career was still ahead of her," Deary-Fillmore related as to what raced through her mind in those moments after the fall.
Kasey Fillmore, a senior, has a gymnastics scholarship to attend Bowling Green University in the fall and that seems to be on track as she was not seriously hurt.
"MRI's and the X-rays showed that nothing was broken, they didn't do an MRI on the one part of her back that's still sore but it's getting better. I think it's just a lot of twisted, sore muscles which takes some time to heal- it's killing her to watch," Deary-Fillmore said.
She won't be watching much longer if she wants to participate in the post-season state competitions and, for that reason, expect Kasey to be back Monday.
"She will do something (Monday) even if it's as basic as you could possibly see, I'm talking about low-level gymnastics, just to make sure she has her events in so she will be eligible," Deary-Fillmore added.
Fillmore wasn't the only one nursing an injury, freshman Christine Caron whacked her two big toes in practice on the bars and was limping around Thursday night. Justine Basley, Killingly's number two gymnast, suffered a fall of her own off the bars in warm ups for the NFA meet but the Redgals still persevered and won easily 128.55-117.5 over the Wildcats.