My arm is STILL broke

Yesterday at 10am Hallie had an appointment at the orthopaedic clinic at the LGH to see how her arm was healing. On Friday she had managed to take her cast off and was quite happy to walk around carrying it - not actually helping heal her arm but anyway!!



The doctor had a look at her arm and sent us off to radiology to do another x-ray. We then went back to orthopaedics so the doctor could check out her updated x-ray. The funny thing was that every other patient seen there had to follow the same procedure so we were all following each other round the different clinics in the hospital.

After looking over her x-ray and me pretending that I could see exactly what the doctor could see on the x-ray, he decided that given her love of climbing and the likelihood of knocking it, he would put a three-quarter cast on to protect it and help it to continue healing. "The last thing we want is another break," he said. Tell me about it. It has been mighty hard to keep her off the trampoline.

Hallie had found a pair of goggles in the toybox in the clinic which she wore all the way up to radiology and back to orthopaedics again. The only problem was that Oliver wanted a turn so we had a few tantrums on the way as we worked out some sharing issues.


Hallie wore the goggles while the doctor put her cast on which he found hilarious, saying she was the best patient of the day. Sarra asked him for some rubber gloves of her own and he replied that it might put the hospital over budget and he would lose his job. I cracked up because as those Tasmanians of you know the LGH has been fighting for more funding from the state government for quite awhile now. it is really quite worrying with bed closures and loss of specialists but that is another whole debate.

While we were waiting for the cast, Hallie pretended that she was a doctor and I had a broken leg which she had to fix. She did that by banging my knee really hard - "to knock it back into shape," she said.

The doctor made Hallie a fish out of one of the rubber gloves, even putting a face on it for her. She loved it and he definitely made the whole experience a positive one for her. All in all we were only there for 2 hours - pretty good for a hospital visit.