The broken arm.

Well, the poor little girl has had a couple of days in hospital and is home. She needed an operation to put all the bits together, supposed to take an hour and took between 3 and 4 hours, they had trouble getting it all together. So she has a plaster from shoulder to fingers.

One of the nice things is that she has been having lots of visitors and all the goodies such visitors bring. One nice thing was this photo of some of her cousins.  Not wanting Isabelle to feel too bad, they have all  put their arms in paper 'plaster casts' and sent her this photo.

How cute is that!

Break a leg....no...break an arm.

Well, its been one of those weeks! We are on the mend, have finally lost the cough but still feeling quite weak with low energy levels.

For a family that normally has few health issues we got the lot this week. Apart from us trying to get over our bugs, one of our sons, whose partner is pregnant has been told the baby is not well, so they are stressed to the max. Another daughter has unexpectedly found she is pregnant with number 3. And my little granddaughter, Izzie has had a terrible fall and broken her arm and hurt her shoulder.

This is no fracture, as you can see from the Xray here, it is a massive break. I have just had a message to say the 1 hour operation to put her back together took almost four hours, so they have been up all night and, to use my daughters words, they were freaking out after the op was taking so long.

I can't imagine the pain poor Izzie had, I think the bone was coming through the skin. Fortunately she is young and I guess the bones will heal well, and fortunately it is her left arm and she is right handed, but it's right at the beginning of summer, when swimming is one of the best things in the afternoons, and she won't be able to swim til she gets the cast off.

Poor little Izzie!