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I think I've injured dd's foot:(

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princessmel · 15/05/2007 20:48

This morning when I was emptying the dishwasher and doing jobs around the kitchen dd was following me around .She wanted to be picked up etc. She was tired as she'd woken at 5 30 ish this morning. And she is just sometimes clingy.

Anyway I was walking backwards and forwards from the dw to the drawer and as I turned round to walk back to the dw she was right there and I sort of knocked into her and she fell over and I trod on her right foot

I picked her up and cuddled her etc then we had to go to school. In the buggy.

At school I thought it was odd that she didn't want to get out of the buggy but I thought she was just tired.
Then she had to have a jab at the doctors and was clingy at home. I thought again she was tired and/or upset from the injection. She had some calpol.

When she woke up from her nap I went to put her down and she wouldn't put any weight on her foot. Just cried. I rung the doctors and they said I could be seen at the end of surgery. All afternnon she didn't use it and just either sat with me or shuffled on her bum. She had neurofen.

The doctor checked it over and asked how it had happened , I told her and she asked if I'd trodden on it, I said 'no'. I just felt so guilty and embarrased and ashamed. She only fractured her wrist a month or so ago falling of my bed .
Doctor said it was probably a sprain and if she's not using it tommorow then to go back or to A and E.
When I got home I felt so guilty for lying that I rung her back and told her, crying my eyes out at the same time.

I just feel that its always my children (out of our friends and family etc)that are at the doctors or hurting themselves.
dd has had a lot of ear infections and the doctor thinks her balance is affected so she could be accident prone.
I feel like a bit of a crap mum today. I love them to bits.

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daftasabrush · 15/05/2007 21:07

What a rotton time you have had. You just have to remember accidents do happen. I once shut DD's fingers in the boot of the car and we had to take her to A&E so I know how awful it can make you feel. I hope tomorrow after a good nights sleep she (and you) feel better. x x

Othersideofthechannel · 15/05/2007 21:10

Don't beat yourself up about it. It was an accident. And well done for ringing the doctor back - that was really brave.
I hope she feels better soon (and you too!)

princessmel · 15/05/2007 21:13

Thanks you two. I had to ring her back as I didn't want her to think it was just a sprain when it could be a fracture. Plus I felt really guilty.
I hope after she's slept and rested the foot she will feel better.

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princessmel · 16/05/2007 07:42

Well she still can't put any weight on it.

I'm going to take her to childrens A+E this morning

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oops · 16/05/2007 07:45

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belgo · 16/05/2007 07:48

princessmel - accidents happen - it wasn't your fault. Well done for telling the doctor the truth.

Hope all goes well at a&e.

And no it's not always your children - my children have accidents too!

oops · 16/05/2007 07:51

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princessmel · 16/05/2007 07:51

She's on a bean bag at the moment watching her brother play trains. She can't move around much. She can crawl a bit.

The only other thing that I think it could be related to is that she had her pnemonia(sp) jab yesterday. The new one they have before they are 2. Its in the same leg.
She had that at 9.40 and I knocked her over at about 8.30.
But she wasn't wanting to get out of the buggy-very unusual, before she had the jab so then I don't think it has anything to do with that. But its sore around the injection site. She doesn't like me touching it.

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princessmel · 16/05/2007 07:53

at 'hope that helps'!
Yes it does actually in a wierd way.
None of my friends are ever having things like this happen.
Thanks belgo.

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princessmel · 16/05/2007 13:27

Ok, been at childrens A+E all morning. They x rayed it and its not broken
They said its probably just sore etc.
She had calpol and neurofen there.

Since we got home she's stood on it and walked!
Yeay!

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Othersideofthechannel · 16/05/2007 17:14

Glad to hear it wasn't serious.

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