The Broken Arm

On Thursday we went round to Lou & Jack's and it was so lovely we ended up in the garden. Lucy absolutely loved the sand box and played happily for ages, Amelia & Jack were playing football (randomly kicking it at each other) when Amelia managed to stand on the football and fall over. She screamed the place down forages - wanted her blanket, which we didn't have and wanted to go home- which eventually we did - but she cried the whole way home (I ended up having to give her a piggy back home and push Lucy in the Maclaren) At home she wouldnt move the arm at all and couldnt lift it - but wasnt in any pain unless she was moving it so I gave them lunch and put them to bed. She woke up still in a lot of pain though so I decided to take her to A&E. Liz was coming over anyway - so when she arrived, we went. After waiting a while we saw a nurse and then a Doctor, who sent her to x-ray. She had some Calpol and it really seemed to be kicking in as she could move the arm pretty well in the x-ray. But when we saw the Doctor again after the x-ray he said 'I'm sorry to tell you that it isnt good news'! She has broken the elbow and there is a little piece chipped away. Luckily its a clean break and wont need surgery, so they put on a temporary cast and sent us home to get her full cast in the morning. She was just so good while we were there - friendly and chatty - you would not have thought that it was broken at all - I was so proud of how brave she was - she had the x-ray alone while I watched behind the screen in the room and sat still and didnt cry at all when they put on the cast. Unbelievably, Duncan was away while this happened - he hated not being here.


Amelia had a ok night, awake a little with her arm hurting, but she was ok. We went to the fracture clinic yesterday and after a farce where they removed her cast to get it x-rayed again and she had to hold it in a position that hurt her - she had her cast put on. Its brilliant, lightweight fibreglass and she is managing billiantly - though its already pretty dirty!! She will need it for two and a half weeks - so we will see how that goes!!

Amelia-ism of the Day

'I was playing football at Jack's. I tripped on the ball. I wanted to go home so we went straight away. Then Nanny Wall came round and I said I must go to hospital...'

Amelia's War & Peace tale of how she hurt her arm.