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Princessmel's ds broke his arm yesterday :(

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princessmel · 08/06/2008 19:50

It was awful.

He fell from the climbing frame in our garden.
He came running over to us, screaming, and you could see straight away that it was broken.
It was totally bent. Dh was hysterical. Screaming and swearing.
Thank goodness our friends were here who were fab.
They called 999 and looked after dd and their kids.
Dh couldn't drive as he'd had a few beers and our car is in the garage.

He has broken both his bones below the elbow.

He had an opp today to straighten it and we have to go back in a week to see if it's moved. If it has then he'll need another opp to pin it.

He was really scared about being put to sleep. Kept screaming and crying. Was so frightened.

I oddly, haven't cried at all. It's wierd. It feels like I don't care but I really do. I've just been focussed on getting him fixed.

Crapolla week all round .
I got made redundant as of sept and our car has cost us £1000 in repairs and dh got caught by a speed camera.

Just thought I'd let you all know.

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 08/06/2008 19:53

Poor DS, how awful.

You have had a shit eek, no?

fryalot · 08/06/2008 19:54

oh poor little melboy

Fwiw, the way you're feeling, it's called keeping calm. It will hit you when all the sorting out stuff is over, and then you probably won't be able to stop shaking for a week.

Well done for getting everything organised and comforting your little boy.

Good luck next week.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 08/06/2008 19:56

week

(bet you had an eek too)

Good luck

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princessmel · 08/06/2008 19:58

Thanks, yes a very crap eek!

I was shaking when he did it but I haven't cried. I usually cry a lot.
Dh was so useless that I had to be calm I suppose.

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Wallace · 08/06/2008 22:19

Sorry about your crap eek Your poor ds. Go and have a good cry, you need it!

Yorkiegirl · 08/06/2008 22:30

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bellavita · 08/06/2008 22:36

Princessmel - DS1 fractured both his bones in his left wrist a couple of weeks ago (was pushed over at school and then jumped on). I had not realised school were trying to get hold of me (in the hairdressers) and I had missed four calls. In a rush and panic to get to school - I got copped for speeding and landed myself with a fine and 3 points, so I know how you feel when it all goes wrong

This was not the only bad bit - DS had only just got his full length pot removed from his other arm the week before - he had fallen in the park and broke the arm just above the elbow. He has to have physio as he has not regained full use of the arm.

Sorry for your crapola week and your DS.

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 12:25

Thanks evryone.
He's at home today.
He's bored and wants to play with his friends but can't as they are all at school.
He just asked if he could go on the trampolene! Um no you can't!

I have no food either and no car to get out to the supermarket. I'm going to try and do my first ever online shop, unless dh can go tonight.

Last night dh fashioned a hook onto his bed so his arm could stay upright like at the hospital. But he woke in the night with pins and needles. So then we rested it on a pillow. The nurses suggested he had it raised if we could manage it.

I still haven't cried. Maybe I'm just heartless
I did feel stressed this morning though.

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 12:30

Thanks LL. He's trying to play cars with one hand. Bless him.

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seeker · 09/06/2008 12:35

Prinfcessmel - I feel for you. My ds broke his wrist badly a week ago> I wasn't there when it happened, but dp was and he is atill getting flashbacks and fits of shaking. I am much cooler and calmer about ti than he is - as you said, concentrating on getting him fixed.

It is important to keep it elevated - but I don't think it has to be very high. We've arranged lots of cushions so that when he's sitting watching `tv it can be up, and in bed he rests it on a couple of pillows.

Ds did it on Friday night, anaesthetic on Saturday morning - playing foorball on Sunday morning, back at school on Monday. He will recover far faster than you will if it's anything like our experience. My ds goes back to the fracture clinic tomorrow to see if it needs to be reset (they weren't happy with it on Friday but said that it might sort itself out)

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 12:50

Hi,
Ds has football this afternoon but we're not going.
Maybe in a few weeks he will. Myabe not. It sounds mad sending him with a cast.
I have to make an appointment at the fracture clinic this afternoon. To see if it needs pinning.

He will not be able to go swimming either and I've just rebooked. I'm hoping they'll roll over this payment for next term. (they run through the summer)

He's walking around fine but I keep thinking he's going to trip and fall. My 2 fall over every day.

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bellavita · 09/06/2008 12:54

princessmel - DS1 is still not allowed to do PE at school or interact with any other playground games (due to his first arm being broken), so I think it is not wise even if he really really wants to go to football.

seeker · 09/06/2008 12:55

Mine was doing kick about football, not football club (although he wanted to go!)

They said at the clinic on Friday that I shouldn't stop him doing anything that he could do and wanted him to do(!) but we had to be careful about him hurting someone else by getting them in the nose with his cast! It's so hard, though, i want to keep him in ans sitting down in a nice cotton will lined box!

I kept asking if he could do any more damage but they kept saying he couldn't.

When is yours going back to school?

bellavita · 09/06/2008 12:59

DS1 is still having physio at the moment and it is the consultant who has said he should not be involved in any activities, although the arm has healed nicely (he had to go to theatre, luckily they did not have to put wires in which they thought they were going to have to) his arm has restricted movement.

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 13:04

He can go back to school whenever I think is right. I'm keeping him off tomorrow too and then I'll see. I just don't want anything happening to him until we've been back for an x ray.

They are annoying each other today. gggrgh

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bellavita · 09/06/2008 13:07

DS1's first arm happened on the Wed night, theatre Thursday morning and home Thursday night, he went back to school on the Monday so he did have a good rest at home.

Although I did get a phonecall from his teacher at the end of his first week back to say that he had struggled and found it hard going and looked really tired. She had wanted to send him home on the first day back in the afternoon but he refused.

She made me feel bloody awful, but he wanted to go to school. If he had said to me that he did not feel like going, I would not have sent him.

seeker · 09/06/2008 13:13

The first week, I took him out of school for lunch so that he wouldn't have to deal with the playground scrimmage. This week he is in school as normal. Some schools apparantly don't let children come back to school while they are in a cast. Imagine - 6 weeks of the climbing the walls.

When does your ds go back to the fracture clinic, Mel?

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 13:21

I have to book the appointment today, now really.
I think it's on a monday or a thursday.

Gosh I can't imagine him not being at school for 6 weeks. That would be bad. Our school siad that he's welcome back as soon as he's ready.

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seeker · 09/06/2008 13:27

They told me at the hospital that it was important that the first out patient appointment should be no more than a week from the injury - so be prepared to stand your ground!

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 13:32

I just rang and the nurse that arranges the appointments is busy. She's apparantly calling me back later.
I should get one for thursday then? He did it saturday evening.

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bellavita · 09/06/2008 13:37

I was quite lucky then as the hospital rang us on the Friday eve (did it Wed eve, went to theatre Thursday morning) and gave us an appointment for the following Thursday.

Well I would say either Fri or Mon unless they do a fracture clinic on Sun morning?

seeker · 09/06/2008 13:39

I would have thought Friday if at all possible, or Monday at the latest.

They tried to tell us there wasn't an appointment free for 10 days (we were away for the weekend when it happened, so we weren't in the system at our local hospital) and I had to be a bit rottweiler-like to get an appointment!

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princessmel · 09/06/2008 16:58

Got an appointment for friday the 13th (oh no !!), for 9.50am.

Fingers crossed it's ok.

He's been so grumpy today.

He's bored stiff. He's ok at the moment as the children from next door have popped over.

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