Broken toe

[Claw3]

I think ds may have broken his toe. Last night before bed i thought he had dirt on his toe and tried to wipe it off. It was not dirt but a very deep purple almost black looking bruise on his little toe.

I have looked at his toe again this morning while he is sleeping and the whole of his toe now looks bruised, one side is deep purple and now the other side is light blue bruising.

He absolutely hates hospital and getting him there is going to be very difficult.

What do they do for a broken toe?

(i am going to take him obviously, but thought the more i can prepare him for what they might do, the better and less stressful for him)

When I broke my toe they just strapped it to the next one - didnt do much else.

Poor DS :(

Poor ds. Hope its not too painful.

When I broke my little toe they didn't do anything, as they said there was no effective way of strapping it up. Mind you, that was over ten years ago, so things may have changed and I have known others for whom the hospital strapped the little toe to the next one along.

Found some info here. If it helps.

When I broke my foot in June this year (I know, I know, I'm accident prone) they said for any break you should start as soon as possible to keep it elevated and apply an ice pack (or bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth) for ten to fifteen minutes every couple of hours for the first 24 hours. You can give paracetamol for the first 24 hrs and after than paracetamol and ibuprofen.

If its any consolation (which I'm sure its not as is horrible when one of your dcs breaks a bone) my 20 month old dd has a fractured wrist at the moment (fell out of the rocking chair ) and she screamed blue murder at every nurse and doctor that came within 6 feet of her. Mind you, we have now had a total of 5 visits to the hospital since Tuesday of last week and she's become a bit of a pro - sat there good as gold and had a new cast put on yesterday (she pulled the first one off ). She has now had 2 temporary and 2 fibreglass casts in less than a week!

Hope it heals us really quickly for him.

Thanks, ds is still asleep, i will have to wake him in a minute, been trying to let him wake naturally, otherwise he will be grumpy and not a good start for a hospital visit.

Over the years he has had so many hospital visits and stays, always involving them doing something painful, so he is petrified of hospitals and doctors.

I have my bag packed with colouring pencils, snacks, books etc and just charging older ds's psp as im anticipating a long wait and lots of stress for ds.

He didnt even mention that he had hurt his toe, but his pain threshold is a bit mixed up. The slightest scratch and he is a total drama queen, but a nasty looking bruised toe and not a word!

There is no way, he would tolerate an ice pack. I doubt he will let a dr touch him. I am going to have to take him screaming and kicking

Thanks Shadeofviolet, i can tell him they might have to strap it. I might try to knock up a quick social story.

Moose, thanks for the link will have a quick read. Your poor dd, hope she is ok.

I have read on some sites that when they strap it to the toe next to it, they call the other toe 'a buddy toe'. Would this help to make it less scary perhaps?

Sorry, I don't know how old your ds is, but thought the idea of the one toe being a friend to and helping the poorly toe might possibly help him accept the strapping?

My ds1 is the same with pain and illness. Last week he was violently throwing up, had diarrhe in his pjs and was still insisting he wasn't ill, so we should feed him everything as usual. He was so convincing on Saturday, after not bing sick for over twelve hours, that we gave in and let him have some staffordshire oatcakes at tea time - sure enough he was violently ill all throughout the night. Nothing we could say would persuade him. (He kept insisting it was travel sickness as the first time he was sick was when he had just got out of the car. Hmm, yes ds1 but you haven't been in a car for three days now and you are still being sick!) Fast forward to this morning and me brushing his hair - very carefully, without pulling etc - while he screams the place down as if I am murdering him.

Dd is ok thanks, she's just very tired from not being able to get comfortable to sleep. I am also very tired from hardly having a wink of sleep since she did it last Tuesday.

Good luck Claw, hope he is ok.
(Can't believe anyone can sleep so long, is that the melatonin or the result of a bad night?)

Moose, yes that might help, he is 6 and would like the idea of one toe helping another!

Glad you dd is ok, sleep i would kill for a good nights sleep

Amper, he doesnt seem bothered by the toe at all, he was just limping about last night. He also has a small scratch on his ankle, which he did the day before and was limping because of that the day before. I assumed it was the scratch.

Ds would sleep until about 12 every day if i let him, without the melatonin. Melatonin has worked, as he doesnt wake during the night anymore and an early bedtime ie 11 - 12pm, which was previously 2 - 3am. But i usually wake him at 7.30am, he is incredibly grumpy and in a foul mood. Although he never gets tired once awake.

His body clock appears to be totally out of sync, like the rest of him i suppose.

Oh gosh. Wonder what would happen if you moved to a time zone that fitted with that - bit drastic and I don't really mean it of course. But I do think about it a tiny bit seriously for DS, maybe if we lived somewhere where it is rude to look people in the eye and everyone ate with their fingers and didn't have to sit up at a table he would just find things easier!! Maybe someone has done study on this it would be interesting to know how ASC traits are perceived across different cultures.

But I digress - not enough adult company, too much stuck in the house (refusing again today)

Let us know how you get on at the hospital.

Right must go and wake him. Thanks everyone.

Back from hospital and wow ds never ceases to amaze me, he was as good as gold!

I explained he was going to have a picture taken of his toe and that they might have to strap his bad toe and that the other toe would help it to get better and he was fine. He wanted me to promise, no needles, no blood and no having to stay there and i had to keep repeating this all they while we were there. He did a bit of hand flapping at the dr, but was brilliantly behaved.

The x-ray was unclear as his bones were so small and he might have a small fracture. But dr says it doesnt matter whether he has fracture or just badly bruised and swollen, they treat it the same way and strap it to next toe.

So ds has his 'buddy' toe and is happily sitting on the settee, feet up, eating sweets for being so good.

We were in and out of hospital in just over an hour. So i would recommend if you are going to have an accident, do it on Wednesday between 11-12!

Well done your ds!

Isn't it lovely when they surprise us like that?

Hope it heals really quickly and he's up and about soon.

Thank you Moosemama, he has to keep it strapped for 5 days if possible, but no exercise.

He is ok with the strapping, but the no exercise is going to be hard, part of his everyday therapy is exercise and bouncing on the trampoline. I will have to put my thinking cap on, he will be climbing the walls literally!

Well done to your DS for being a little star.

Hope it heals quickly.

What a super little man! Well done! :)

:o :o :o ( three big smilies from arsenic.. One for poorly toe, one for buddy toe and a big one at the end for a brave boy!)

and ds1( 15 and manshaped lol) said " bet he was braver than me when I broke my toe!"
( admitidly ds did actually have to have the bits of his toe pinned back together .. The numpty!.. But I didn't want to tell you that until you got back all safe and sound!)
:o

Thanks Shadeofviolet.

Thearsenic, Ouch! that must have been very painful and i dont think ds's bravery would have stretched to pins! Your ds wins hands down

claw.. Ds1 loses... Because it was self inflicted, through being a prize plonker and he was old enough to know better. :)

now little claw does get lots of my sympathy.. ( this is probably due to him not having a big deep bloke voice, legs hairyer(sp) than a mountain yak and a hoard of loud puppy like idiot teen mates. ( who I actually really like and they are great with ds2).

LOL i have 3 deep blokes voices of my own and trying to get to the bottom of what happened to little ds's toe, it looks like one of them caused it!

My 16 year old ds was bouncing on the trampoline with ds and they clashed feet. Big builder ds says that little ds was clutching his foot!

What happened to your ds's toe, dare i ask?

If I Tell you.. You have to promise not to feel a bit queasy! :o

Basically he was pratting about ( judo warm up with bare feet on!) and threw a rather large mate .. And it got a bit .. Well teenagerish .. instead of mate landing the other side of his foot.. Mate landed.. Inbetween ds's big toe and next toe.. Disclocating both toes in opposite directions.. And shattering the big toe with the force of it.
Now I say they should have know better.. Because we are not talking begginner bloody judo belts here And they all represented not their club but the county.. ! The donkey!

he tells me that climbing and surfing( his new hobby/sports) are far safer! ( do you think I believe him?)

I love the term big voices! ( they are like ungainly puppies the lot of them)

Claw.. I totally agree that your big voice has probably had some input to the ouchy toe!! ( even if he looks at you with his baby eyes)!

I did grimace a bit reading that!

My big ds who was bouncing with little ds, is a black belt in taekwondo!, he and little ds are always wrestling on the trampoline. An accident waiting to happen. He didnt think to tell me about the clashing/clutching toe.

Oh yes climbing and surfing are much, much safer, your worries are over

I am outnumbered by big deep gruff voices, 6 footers now, i have 2 16 almost 17 year old ds's and a 14 year old. Yes very much like puppies, all arms, legs and voices

:o "didn't think to tell me"

I think myself lucky that I only have ds1 towering over me ( not quite a six footer ..but the voice makes up for it lol). He's a good lad and his mates really are ace! All of them work / study hard but they also play hard too.. yet they always make time for ds2 ( who is now the same height as me.. But with a little voice).. And dd ( who adores all the big boys and is a duck with them :))

:o @ being outnumbered.. The toilet seat in this house is perminantly in the up position!

Same here Arsenic, 2 older ones are both at college full time (still costing me a small fortune!) all 3 are good boys and very handy when i pull up with a boot full of shopping or bouncing on the trampoline with ds while i cook dinner!

@ toilet seat, its an ongoing debate here, they feel as i am outnumbered 5 to 1, i should lift the toilet seat up for them, as oppose to them putting it down for me as i am the minority!