A&E

Friday night, the night before her party, Amelia hurt her arm. Her and Duncan were playing on the bed 'wrestling' and Duncan was trapping her arms and tickling her. She started crying and saying her arm hurt, and for a while we thought she was exaggerating, but it became clear she really had hurt herself! We gave her some calpol and sent her to bed, hoping a good nights sleep would be all it needed. But she woke up at 9.30 screaming her head off, refusing to move the arm and generally was in a complete state. We called Liz & Geoff to come over while we took her to the hospital. She cheered up a bit on the way but refused to move the arm and didnt want us touching it. I thought she might have had the ligamenets pulled in some way, which can happen when you swing them by their arms.


We waited about and hour before seeing a nurse who tok all our details and sent us to the childrens waiting room to see a Doctor. The childrens waiting room is full of toys. Amelia immeadiately brightened up and asked us to play with her and grabbed a toy. With both hands. We immeadiately asked if her arm was ok and she confessed that it felt fine now and even leant her body weight on it to show us! Well we just started laughing - it was a complete pain to be there .. but at least she wasnt actually hurt! We actually ended up discharging her as we waited another half hour and had still not been seen. We didnt get home til 11.45!!!! Ridiculous!! The little monkey.