Saturday, June 23, 2007

Yet another injury!

Yep you read correctly....we have another injury in the family. Any guess as to which child it was this time? Maggie? NO! Chris? Amazingly NO! So it has to be Andrew! His latest injury happened yesterday after school playing cricket. Somehow his friend was falling down and somehow Andrew's thumb got hurt in the process. It was swollen and sore but today he wanted to have it checked out as it was getting worse.

After spending an hour at the walk in clinic we were sent to the A/E {emergency room} at the hospital for xrays and further evaluation. THREE, yes 3, hours later we were told he has a broken thumb {distal phalange} and they supported it with TAPE. We go now need to go to the fracture clinic on Wednesday to have it looked at further and they will do something else to set it/help it. It is crazy the process that you need to go through when you have an injury.
Sorry, but the NHS is an archaic system that is in desperate need of modernization.

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