September 7th 2015 - What a day

September 7th 2015 - What a day

I had planned on writing a nice post about the boys starting back at school today and how smart they looked etc.  But  thing took a different route.

After school the middle son was still complaining that his wrist hurt alot.  On saturday he was playing on a space hopper, fell off and landed on his wrist, we went to a&e and the doctor was in quite an ar*e (not my fault) but after prodding n poking it, son saying it really hurt, the doc said my son had sprained it - no xray etc.  But to keep giving calpol and to go back if no better.  Well he was still in pain so we went back.

The doc we saw today was really nice and helpful.  He sent us for an xray as believed my son my have bent the bone and when we came back he said that he had, only slightly but enough to show up on xray.  As it's only a mild bend he said he didn't want to put it in plaster but would put a splint on for a week to give it support.  Well they couldn't find a splint small enough and only had tuber grip, but said that I could pic 1 up on ebay fairly cheap.  My Son is not allowed to do anything for 2 days and needs to rest his wrist and no sport for 2weeks.  he has an appointment back in a&e next week.

So now i've posted about the drama you are probably thinking that I have lost the plot talking about bending bones etc.  Well this info has been copied from a medical website - "Most  youngsters, broken bones are either “greenstick” fractures, in which the bone bends like green wood and breaks only on one side, or “torus” fractures, in which the bone is buckled, twisted, and weakened but not completely broken. A “bend” fracture refers to a bone that is bent but not broken, and is also relatively common among youngsters."