SLD offspring in plaster - any tips?

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DD1 has broken her wrist. (On school's watch: they are claiming both total vigilance and total ignorance - possibly she was hit by a thunderbolt?) So, is now cheerfully eating her way through a plaster cast. Several weeks of trying to keep the thing clean/dry loom unpleasantly on the horizon. It is - of course - her only functional arm that is bust so she will be continuing to use it for all activities.

Any tips for rising to this particular challenge? Other than stick her firmly to the bed with head to toe gaffer tape and then dig out the gin?

Any thoughts gratefully accepted. In the meantime, bottoms up...

Enjoy your wine! No advice but it won't seem so bad if your pi**ed

Ouch, my worst nightmare!

Could you ask for it to be changed for a fibreglass one? Less chewable than plaster of paris.

What about a Waterproof protector to allow bathing/showering/swimming?

Thanks Lou - will look at that jobby. DD1 does love her bath!

They wanted to give us a fibreglass cast but the fibreglass cast man had gone home sick. Apparently there is a slim chance that if I phone up on Monday and threaten him with death by chewing beg piteously he may swap the plaster cast for a fibre one. Meantime she is wearing half a pair of woolly tights over the top of it, in the hopes that will slow the destruction down a bit.

Well, when my oldest was a few years old he had an op to try to sort out his arm (erbs palsy). He was in a very large cast for about 7 or 8 weeks. It covered his torso, and his arm and there was a pole from his waist to his arm so his arm was kept out from his body at an angle. very hard to describe really.

Just kept him away from water and tried to stop him bashing it about. It got filthy VERY quickly! Soon was looking awful, but was still doing its job, so it didn't really matter. He wore my husband's t-shirts as his own tops didn't fit.

Getting the bloody thing removed was the big problem! It flaming well terrified him! For YEARS afterwards he went into meltdown if he heard anything buzzy, iyswim.

My youngest realised that if he gave my eldest a shove when he was sitting down, he would fall backwards and be unable to get back up, (think tortoise rocking back and forth on his back). However, my eldest realised that if he swung round sharply, he could crack my youngest with the arm part of the cast!

Well, she's just pulled it off...

oh bugger.... all I can think of is whether it would be at all feasible for it to be splinted instead of casted, given she's not tolerating the cast well at all by the sounds of things.