The screw up fairy has visited again!
I’m not sure if she’s trying to kill me or herself, but Maddy just can’t seem to keep herself out of the ED!
Sunday night she found a lizard in her bedroom, which hubby removed, but not before placing all the teddies on her bookcase on the floor. Next thing we hear is her screaming in pain - she’d fallen over one of the teddies *groans* Of course, my first concern was her wrist, but she was complaining about her knee (the same one that saw her on crutches for three weeks last year).
So, off to the ED we go. On the way she complained about tingling and numbness in her foot, which made me put my foot down a little harder to get there quicker.
The triage nurse was rude, to put it bluntly, and didn’t even offer her any pain relief, even though I told her we’d come straight to the hospital and Maddy was sobbing while she sat in front of her. The clerk actually recognized me from the Sunday before *cringes*
After an hour, we finally got in and the nurse got her some pain relief straight away. Then they started talking about x-raying for a break *gasp* My mind started going over the possibilities, because with her fractured wrist she was going to have to have a wheelchair to get around. I still held onto a little commonsense, because I made sure they did her wrist again as well - she had landed on it when she fell.
Thankfully, there’s nothing broken, but she has managed to sprain the ligaments in her knee again, which means zero weight-bearing for a week or so (last time it was three weeks, but she had sprained the ankle as well).
Of course, there was the wrist issue…
It’s not fractured! She’s just weird! There were two senior doctors on duty on Sunday night and they assured me there was no fracture in either set of x-rays and the report for the first set indicates that without question. It’s soft tissue damage only and should settle (minus the stiffness from being immobilised for a week unnecessarily) within days, which it just about has :)
So, Maddy is getting around on crutches, which forces her to use the injured wrist and it’s coping nicely at this stage. Mind you, she doesn’t move unless she has to.
I did phone the fracture clinic and asked the nurse to pass on a message to the ‘doctor’ who insisted on seeing Maddy *g* Hopefully the message got through, because it’s not fair to leave a kid in plaster when there’s no fracture and he had the final report, so he wasn’t just going off the x-ray.