[gil]

Have been fantastic! Our son fell off his bike yesterday about 4.30 and broke his left forearm (radius and ulna, if I have the words right!) very badly. Fortunately, the bones stopped a couple of mm short of piercing the skin. He has had surgery and is now home, rather sore and in a cast for the next six weeks.

He had been moaning about being bored (as you'd expect, since school broke up at 12.00 yesterday so this was a good 4 hours into the summer hols :D) and decided to go out on his bike - just got back from a 45 min ride around the harbour and this happened almost outside our drive. He was wearing a helmet so the arm was the only damage.

East Care 24 surgery were brilliant as were all staff of St John's and Middlemore. Looking forward to a good night's sleep now....
Gil

[YouMeAndThree]

Ah, so that's what happened. Quite lucky to be so close to home when it happened (even luckier if he'd not done it at all). How's he going to cope with the boredom now :exit

Good to know the care received was good. Is East Care 24 the one near the golf club?

Lx

[Nienke]

Oh no, not a good start of the holidays.. Hope he feels better soon!

[Carey]

Someone was telling me they use water-proof casts coz kiwi kids could never last without swimming for the time it has to stay on? Is that true?

Hope it heals quickly and painlessly!

[JandM]

Gil, sorry to hear that, and all the best to him for healing up well.

I don't know if they do waterproof casts anywhere, but my grandson had his arm in plaster over last Christmas and into New Year, and my granddaughter has a leg a month out of plaster now, and both those (from the Starship Children's Hospital) were the conventional kind of cast that had to be kept dry.

[Jo Jo]

Ouch! I hope his arm heals quickly.

[gil]

Gil, sorry to hear that, and all the best to him for healing up well.

I don't know if they do waterproof casts anywhere, but my grandson had his arm in plaster over last Christmas and into New Year, and my granddaughter has a leg a month out of plaster now, and both those (from the Starship Children's Hospital) were the conventional kind of cast that had to be kept dry.

He's got a normal one that needs to be kept dry too. There was mention of colour choice, but nothing about waterproof!

[Leanne]

Did I x-ray him Gil? And you did get it correct - it is radius and ulna. I have to say that I haven't seen any fiberglass casts here yet, only plaster.

[Jo Jo]

Have you seen the waterproof cast covers you can buy? http://www.dricast.co.nz/

[gil]

Did I x-ray him Gil? And you did get it correct - it is radius and ulna. I have to say that I haven't seen any fiberglass casts here yet, only plaster.


ooh, you might have! It was a Friday night, 19th Dec. He was the young lad who asked for a protective shield for his boy bits :laugh

Gil

[gil]

Have you seen the waterproof cast covers you can buy? http://www.dricast.co.nz/

They look ideal Jo Jo! It's especially the privacy thing that's tricky. Thanks for that,


Gil
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[Leanne]

ooh, you might have! It was a Friday night, 19th Dec. He was the young lad who asked for a protective shield for his boy bits :laugh

Gil

Wasn't me - I was still in the Bay of Islands. But that's awesome that he actually knew to ask for the shielding!

[gil]

Wasn't me - I was still in the Bay of Islands. But that's awesome that he actually knew to ask for the shielding!

I've got a sneaking feeling it was from seeing an episode of Little Britain ...:o

[pinkpiggy]

Apparently if you have an operation to mend a break (as our son Joe had just before Gil's son) you can only have a plaster cast. Joe had a plaster cast as he require an op and was told that when he went back a week later, subject to all being OK, they would put on a fibreglass cast so he could go swimming etc. Unfortunately for Joe he required a second op and yet another plaster cast. So roll on Jan 14 when he gets rexrayed and hopefully either as the cast off or at the very least replaced with a fibreglass one.

[gil]

Hi Paula,
Thanks for the SP on casts and hugs to poor Joe for having a second op. We're off to the hopsital this morning to be re-xrayed to find out if a second op is necessary...fingers crossed it's not. Will says he's not so scared this time as he knows what's involved - I think it's me that's more worried!

For Will, not being able to swim is less of an issue. It's more the privacy if showering etc and not being able to play his guitar is agony for him. However, he's managing to hold it in a funny posiiton and play a bit!

Hope Joe gets his fibreglass cast on 14th!

gil
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[pinkpiggy]

Best wishes for Will this morning. Hope everything goes well. :)

[JandM]

Hope it's all going well.

[gil]

Thanks for the good wishes everyone, looks like they worked - no further operation required! Will now has a blue fibreglass cast. Next visit is on jan 8 :clap

[pinkpiggy]

What a relief for you both!

[Kerry and David]

Good news Gil:clap