Boy plus monkey bars = trouble!

I had the dreaded call yesterday from school to say Matthew had hurt his arm. I had my phone on silent as I was taking a class for new mums so by the time I got the message Steve had collected Matt from school and they were at the local A&E. When I raced in Steve had just seen the xray and was looking a bit faint. His ulna and radius had completely broken and slipped under (apparently medical term is off-ended!). They put a cast on and splinted it so we could move him and we parked Steve's car down the road outside some friends house and took off to Starship in my car.

We were seen quite quickly and the Doctors said, he had done a great job of breaking his arm - if you're going to do it you may as well make a good job of it! They wanted to give him surgery under GA but there were no theatres available so they put him asleep with an amazing drug called Ketamine and they set the bones back in place. It was good as I could be with him the whole time and was right there when he came round. When he was Ok he was xrayed to see if we needed to stay in and have surgery, but they made a great job of it and it should start to fuse together ok. We got to come home and will go back next week for a check to see whether they need to re-do it.

So my poor little guy is in a plaster cast from his armpit to his wrist. We took him to Macdonalds for dinner on the way home from Starship hospital and then picked up Bex and Sam from where they were, and our family unit was all intact and safe at home by 7.30pm.

Poor Matt didn't sleep well last night so I was up to him quite a bit, but he doesn't seem to be in any pain (and we are giving him ibuprofen and pamol to keep it at bay). Sam was fussing over him this morning and I am home with him today just chillin - lucky it is school holidays next week for him and me!