Help! Should I wake DD and take her to A&E?

[RTchoke]

DD is 3. This afternoon she fell out of a tree (only cell about 4 foot but she's small). She cried a lot and said her leg hurt. Since then she has refused to weight bare but in between sad spells has been calm and happy. She can flex her foot, bend her knee etc. The pain only seems to come when she tries to weight bare. Wwhen I touch the back of get calf it hurts.

The nanny reported none of this until I got home and at 7pm. By then it was late to go to A&E & as she wasn't crying I gave her calpol and tucked her in bed. She is sleeping but if I press her calf she wakes and cries (only tried that once, I promise).

Should I take her for an x ray or is it safety leave and assess in the morn? If it might be broken I don't want to make it worse but I'm hoping the lack of swelling, bruising and non-weight baring pain mean it's ok to leave overnight.

Bless, hope she is ok

Oh dear, hope she's ok, keep us updated

Hopefully a&e will be quite quiet at this time on a Thursday night and they'll get seen quickly.

Bless her, hope all turns out ok.

Xx

Oh dear, poor her

Hopefully they will be whizzed through A&E nice and quickly.

Your nanny should most definitely have called you!

Poor thing.Hope she gets seen quickly.

Oh RT, how awful.

Hopefully she'll be seen swiftly. Poor thing.

Thanks Hons. How are all you Dec 08 ladies finding this thread? Do you Ian the main boards l

Thanks Hons. How are all you Dec 08 ladies finding this thread? Do you gave magic powers that allow you to detect a fellow Dec 08er in trouble?

Oops!

Def sounds like a break (even before you mentioned waking up)
You've done the right thing

His job will understand surely?
Best of luck to you

Hope she's ok. We were always told that just because you can use it, don't mean you ain't broke it.

Oh no Hope she is ok.

DH appears to have turned his phone off. Is that still required in hospitals? I thought modern mobiles were ok with hospital equipment (they assertion may be based only on the fact that they often talk on them in 24HoursInA&E!)

Its not unusual for there to be no signal in a+e

Another Dec08er here :)

(But I only rarely pop my head into the thread as it moves so quickly I just can't keep up!)

Does your DH know you can keep phones on there?
Or maybe he's out of signal.

Does your phone do read receipts? Send a text and then when it comes back in range you'll know it's back on again.

Hope she's OK :)

Poor thing. They usually bump kids ti the head of the queue, dd was only on a&e for two hours.

Hope she's ok

News from the hospital is probable fracture but inconclusive. I'm not sure why X-ray wasn't conclusive. Anyway they are putting her in a caste and referring to fracture clinic who will re-assess. Apparently she us v cheerful watching Shrek.

Oh RT, hope you're all home now and sleeping. Glad she's taking it well. Going to hospital can be quite exciting at that age. T has broken his collar bone twice and not been too bad on the whole experience, I loved going to hospital after breaking mine .
Is your DH getting some time off work today?

All home thanks Spot but sadly not all sleeping. To be fair the fracture patient is snoring away next to me but I managed only 3 hours before the pregnancy insomnia kicked in.

It's a small bone in the ankle apparently. We have to be back at the hospital for 10. Yawn.

Oh bloody hell RT. Glad she has been seen hope you are all back home and sleeping. The kudos of having a cast will be v exciting for her .

And yes it's like the bat call. 08er in trouble and a bottle of wine flashes on our iPhones.

Aufanie who are you, don't recognise the nn.

Definitely take her to A&E in the morning. An overnight won't cause any problems but you do need to get it checked to make sure there's no fracture - if there is and it's not treated, it could cause problems for her in the future (interrupted growth, bone not knitting properly/straight etc.) I know it's a PITA but so much better to go in the morning than leave it any longer.

Bless her.

Blast - missed the second page!
Inconclusive fracture - yes I've had one of those - it was plastered for 2 weeks and then reviewed. Bone was in my wrist though, they weren't sure if there was a potential for (I think) spiral fracture in the bone, but plastering it would keep it still, so less chance of it happening. After 2 weeks, it was checked, bone was fine - no need to re-plaster.

Your poor DD, glad she's sorted now. DD had an inconclusive fracture which turned out not to be. It went along the lines of there was a pocket of fluid on the X-ray which is usually suggestive of a fracture and would hide a small fracture if it was there. She was in plaster for a week then they xrayed again and decided it wasn't one.

Oh NO.... Not the result you,had hoped for, poor thing..... Buy a limbo straight away, I have a thigh length one if the cast goes that far up, and it's for a three year old. Pm me if you want me to post it.