So ds (5) has broken his wrist.........

[DrNortherner]

Had an operation last night and now we are home. Bless him.

Anyway, he is uncomfortable and grumpy. His pot is ver cumbersome and heavy, hates it being touched.

We hardly have any shirts he can wear, they are all pull over your head type tops so may need to go shopping.

Any advice from mums who have dealt with similar?

I am dreading bath time but he has been sick this morning and needs a bath so any tips on how to keep the pot dry?

Thanks

Oh poor little man. No experience, but I would suggest a plastic bag taped over the pot would probably work. Hope he's feeling more comfortable soon.

I've no experience DrN, but just wanted to offer my sympathies to your poor little boy.

I'm sure you'll get some sound advice from the army of mothers whose sons have suffered broken bones

You can buy special cast covers for the bath I forget the brand name, fracture clinic usually have leaflets about it.

poor him, poor you.

No experience or advice though!

Your right, Smurf. My MIL ordered one recently online. It took just two days to arrive ... and it worked in the bath and shower.

well tonight we used a ASDA bag and it was such a trauma. But he's tired and grumpy and sick of being prodded me thinks.

He cottoned on pretty quickly that mummy and daddy are running around after him though

Yes pot is plaster!! Those bag things aren't cheap are they? A carrier bag does just the same surely, and it's better for the environemnet to reuse my bags

I hope he is back to his old self soon. I did notice his mobility improved alot over the course of today, but still not 100%

But bless him, he could still have some GA in his system too.

speaking as survivor of ds2's broken arm and broken leg......
they get over initial shock / pain v quickly
they quickly adapt to plaster etc
those plaster cover things are invaluable. get one. plastic bag will let water in... plaster will rot / go soggy / you will have to go back to fracture clinic and have whole thing redone...... really

poor thing!
between 3 of my children we have had 4 fractured wrists, so been there done that, sadly (crappy skinny wrists we have in this family). Are they going to swap the plaster for a fibreglass one soon? I'd insist if I were you, plaster is really much too heavy for a 5 year old to lug around for 4-6 weeks. If he does have the plaster for any time, then sling it, it will be much less tiring for him.

Re baths - we used to stick the arm in a sainsbury's bag, tie the handles around the arm, then wrap the whole lot in a bath towel and get them to bathe with their arm sticking out of the bath in the towel. By far the quickest and safest way rather than shelling out for a cover thingy, I think.

Pull over your head tops usually work OK once you are out of plaster and into fibreglass (since these are much thinner and actually fit into the wrists. Put arms in first and then pull over the head (obv they have to have a bit of stretch in them, like tshirt material.

Hope he gets a nice light cast soon!

Yes we are bcak on Tuesday for a fibre glass one (he gets to choose a colour), hadn't realised that the fibre glass would be lighter than the current plaster one Maybe that is why he is refusing to lift his arm into t shirts and stuff.

He does have a sling but hates it. Will persevere with it tomorrow.

Feel happier knowing Tuesday is not that far away.

Your poor ds!! Ds1 broke his leg in three places when he was just 2, he recovered from the initial shock and pain in a few days and was happily shuffling round on his bottom. We tried to keep bathing to an absolute minimum, but when he really needed it, we used a Gap carrier bag as it had a drawstring and was a lot easier to keep on. Hope your ds feels better soon.

The fibreglass cast will be much lighter, but you shpuld prepare him for how the current cast is coming off, the saw doesn't hurt but it's really loud and ds1 was really frightened. In fact he yelled so much the chap remembered him when he took off my mum's cast a few months later

my ds broke his wrist a few months ago. i got one of these www.limboproducts.co.uk/default.htm
the worst thing was i had to put his socks on for him every day (he is a teenager) and i had to cut his food up for a while.

Clothes: We generally hit the charity shops for baggy next-size-up T-shirts or trousers and chop off the excess (can you tell that we do breakages rather often in our house?). Sleeveless bodywarmer type jackets are v useful. Big woolly sock over the cast at bedtime stops it hurting so much when they bash themselves in the face with it in the night...

Hope he feels better soon!