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Glad to hear that Michael.
My son has his caste off in 2 weeks time,its driving him up the wall because his elbow keeps itching

she,s ok did not break any thiing thank god she was very lucky just badly bruised.

i am always care full as 30yrs ago i fell off a ladder and fractured my spine in two places ,broke my wrist in two places.and cracked two ribs. so i am very careful.

Careful with the decorating ........ no accidents needed !

My son broke his elbow last Saturday and the local hospital does not do X-rays on a weekend so we had to travel 20 miles to the main hospital.
His elbow was swollen but they still took an X-ray of it.

thank you all hopefully it wont be as bad as we are thinking it is, on the upside i can now do some decorating now the wife,s not here.

Well that's why I thought the xray was delayed. Hope the visit of Granny will help keep little one occupied and more cheerful and that things aren't as bad as they might be when the xray finally gets done.

Lizx

Don't forget the arnica.

I truely know what you're going through though to a lesser extent.
My son hurt his finger yesterday and we weren't sure if it was broken, so spent all morning at the hospital today getting it checked out. Even though it's still badly bruised/swollen they could tell after an x-ray that it wasn't broken thank goodness.
Hope your little Grand daughter is better soon.

A huge hug from 'grandma' will hopefully cheer up 3-year-old.

Poor girl - keep us posted on her progress. :)

J*

sorry for the delay in answering the doctor says as it is so swollen the cant do xray till the swelling goes down. have just put the wife on a train to go down to london to help out with the little one. thank you for your reply,s.

Apparently, if a limb is swollen after an accident there is no point in them xraying, they wait for the swelling to go down to get a true picture of the damage. A week seems a bit too long to wait tho, maybe your family can take her back if the swelling goes down in the next couple of days. It would be sensible to try and keep her resting rather than trying to walk on it but I believe children's bones are still a bit soft at this age, maybe just an old wives tale, so once the swelling goes down and the bruising comes out they can see better what has happened. Some arnica will help the bruising if there is no broken skin, bless her.

Lizx

Take her back and don,t move till its sorted.**M**.

If I was her mum I would take her back to the hospital !!

my step grand daughter was knocked over by a car yesterdy the car ran over her foot the hospial never exrayed her as her foot was swollen they never even strapped her foot told her mother they wil make an apiontment for her to go to the fracture clinic in a weeks time, she,s in a lot of pain she,s three years old dont hospitals care any more. . poor little bugger cannot walk on it. rant over. she ok did not break any thing just badly bruised thank god she was very lucky.