My Dad Has Had A HeartAttack ...and TOM seems to have BROKEN another bone!

[MrsForgetMeNotFul]

in addition to my dad still being in hospital...TOM came back from school today limping- seems he may have broken his foot...and though the PE teacher was aware he'd hurt himself playing rugby...no note sent home (oops! Silly me! This is secondary school now...they don't bother with notes about injuries...excuse the sarcasm ....fact that he took 20 minutes to hobble the 5 minutes home....

I warned them in june that he has a high pain threshold and may get serious injuries and not realise...so for tom to be aware of the pain is possibly indication IT HURTS! (as when he broke his arm- then his wrist....he was unaware...we just noticed he was not using it)

Also i am increasingly worried that as he grows he appears even more 'disjointed ' as he runs and i am sure he has a degree of hypermobility in his joints...and if this does turn out to be a broken bone again...again within a joint... then i will be even more certain.

so Andy has just taken him to the district hospital...same one my dad is in...so that's one blessing as we are due to collect/bring home my mum at about 8....

just feeling so 'muddled' about all this ...additionally leigh had THREE teeth not 2 taken out at another hospital today...the waiting around was by far the worst part of it for him...we had to book him in at 12...then they xrayed him at 12.30- then we had to wait till 1.30...by which time he was writhing around on the floor- or lying on the sofas and arching his bach shouting "i want to go home" " i'm scared" etc....so the longer we waited the worse it got.

so all in all a nightmare.

Oh blimey MrsF - what a bloody awful week it's been for you all! ((((((big hugs))))))))!

Hopefully it can only get BETTER now, surely?

As you say, the school should be very aware of Tom's lack of pain - i hope he is ok!

Oh Mrs F! I've only just caught up with this thread, so sorry to hear about your Dad - I hope he is feeling a little better now? And poor old Tom and Leigh....not a good week...next week must be better!

It never rains, does it? Thinking of you.

What a rough week you've had. I hope you're dad is recovering well, and there are no complications.

I totally understand about the waiting for a hospital appt being the worst bit. My ds is an absolute terror in a hospital. He can't sit still for two minutes and finds it very stressful having to wait about. He can't help but bring attention to himself and then becomes annoyed because others are looking at him. He also can't tolerate the hospital smells.

Guess where we have to go this afternoon!!! What joy.

keep smiling Mrs F....your doing a grand job.

Sorry you are having such a hard time.

OK...Tom has supposedly 'only' sprained his ankle...but had enormous row whith my husband last night cos HE didn't tell the casualty staf that tom has AS ...high pain threashold etc...and they decided to NOT even x-ray.

meanwhile- i have (reluctantly ) sent him to school....and a friend stopped me earlier to ask waht was wrong as she'd seen him limping (so that shuts my hubby up for even dare suggest to me that tom was faking it)

I say reluctantly- as i wanted to wrap him in cotton wool.

To be honest...even if i'd gone to the hospital...and said my piece about AS...they may still have not xrayed...thuis is me feeling guilty cos i just could not face another hosptal visit yesterday.

Mum has since told me that dad needs either the angioplasty- or bypass. So my thoughts that he looked better on sunday have been shattered...i wish now i hadn't seen him looking 'well'... as hearing what mum said has shocked me far more cos i though he looked brighter...whereas if i'd had that news on saturday when i had not been to visit - then i was expecting far worse news. I though i'd never see him again.

well...my dad had the Angioplast today- so now has metal keeping his artery open (1 was totally blocked)

hopefully coming home tomorrow.

Tom still hobbling...is that normal for a sprain done on MON????

Glad your dad's surgery went well. Hopefully the medics will be able to monitor him properly now and there'll be no further problem for him.

I was once told that sprains can be far worse than breaks, because there's a tendency to think of them as less severe and not allow as much rest as is needed. Also, with a break that ends up in plaster, you're more or less forced to keep it rested because it's less mobile. I'd say it's very normal for the effects of a sprain to last several weeks. Sorry, that's probably not what you wanted to hear.

thats 'good' to know karen...as i just panic every tiem that his 'high pain threashold' kind of 'masks' the discomfort that 'anyone else' would notice!

Dad is home.... and this morning has no tightness in his chest- so that is a great relief! He is depressed and irritable (as you'd expect)....so mum will have to have broad shoulders and not take to heart all he says- as he's also still talking in quite a 'muddled' way- not always making sense....and mum usually takes evrything to heart!