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littlest_oab has just headed to hospital in the car with mrs_oab, with a broken arm.
Looks like a greenstick fracture, lower arm all wonky. 😕
He was running in the farmers field behind our house with a mate and fell over.
all the best to the young man, hope all is well an he makes a quick recovery.
Oh my!
Our nephew broke his arm several months ago, riding over a jump which was too big for him, aged 8 at the time, he mended very quickly indeed.
Mini_oab be able to get all his mates to sign the plaster cast.
ouch....I've managed to get through life so far without breaking anything. The thought of being incapacitated for any period of time sends shivers down my spine.
Hope he gets well soon.
Oh dear, but he'll love getting his cast signed...
Bad dad! What were you thinking letting him run around in a field!
Fractures like that in kids heal quickly and well generally.
Poor lad, he'll be fine though and pestering you for stuff soon enough. In the meantime you get to spoil him rotten.
A rite of passage! Get all his friends to draw on the pot (or whatever the modern equivalent is called) and he'll love it.
I never broke a limb as a child and still feel I missed out 🙂
Definately broken both ulna and radius...currently asking for McD's ase they are in a city not the sticks! Proper pot tomorrow, just temp to night without it straightened.
oooofff! vibes to the dude.
Mind you, I was jealous that my bro had a cast as a kid - I never did 🙁
+1 for not having done it. He will be too cool for school
He'll mend soon enough! Hurts like hell tho. Done mine twice but I was in my twenties and well the bones make a solid snap noise due to being bigger. His biggest issue now is what colour pot to ask for!
There was nothing cooler than having a stookie when I was a kid - he'll be popular 🙂
don't wish for a broken bone, my break was the most painful thing ive experienced.
The thing is - the lad has learned that whilst very painful, it's "managable", and therefore might be a bit more gung ho than a child who hasn't had the same injury. Which might in turn lead him to be a bit more adverturous in life.
It's long term, probably a good life lesson.
+1 for the attention he'll receive at school.
I did mine 3 times (or maybe 4).
don't wish for a broken bone, my break was the most painful thing ive experienced.
Perhaps but as a child you don't think like that.
I do remember one kid putting his arm in a school railing and have a friend break it on purpose when we were kids.
I can't believe no one has suggested suing the farmer, it's obviously his fault.
😯I do remember one kid putting his arm in a school railing and have a friend break it on purpose when we were kids.
I'm taking our three-year-old lad back to hospital this very afternoon to have the cast removed from his arm. He acquired himself a supracondylar fracture of the humerus on holiday three weeks ago after a spectacular high-speed balance bike stack.
Even spending eight hours being poked and prodded and messed about by Ysbty Gwynedd couldn't knock him back, he asked to get back on the bike the next morning. I suspect the difficult bit is about to start, the doctor says we're supposed to get him to "take it easy" for a month or so after the cast comes off. I sometimes wonder if some doctors have ever even seen children before... 😐
Hope your boy mends quickly OP, good luck!
I managed a compound fracture of my arm/wrist when I was 7 or 8 - trying to jump off a wall no-hands on a Raleigh Pickle, and hit a lamp post 🙂
Anyhow, rode home happily, and it was only when my mother screamed at the funny shape of my arm did it occur to me that I might have done something to it. People feel pain in different ways. For me, it was the trip to the hospital and being left overnight that was the scary bit.
My son has only ever had 2 nosebleeds, both my fault. 😳
Stoner Jr Jr is off back to Birmingham Children's hospital this afternoon to see if his re-attached pinky has taken or not...pics later 😈
meh, just heard he is back tomorrow for an operation. Steelwork needed. 😯 🙁
P*ss*ng me off that we did 3 hours round journey yesterday, 3 hours round journey today and 3 hours round journey tomorrow now...
Steelwork
Bionic boy! Playground kudos goes stratospherical!
good luck to him
WTF! 😯 had they just watched Escape to Victory or something?I do remember one kid putting his arm in a school railing and have a friend break it on purpose when we were kids.
Boys and broken bones go hand in hand lol
Our little 'un done his collarbone recently and prior to that knocked 8 teeth out of his mouth from a faceplant onto a kerb off his bmx. His 661 lid didn't have a mouth guard.
4 hours in Maxillofacial & surgeons called out to put it right.
Top guys & gals
All good now though
matt_outandabout - Membermeh, just heard he is back tomorrow for an operation. Steelwork needed.
P*ss*ng me off that we did 3 hours round journey yesterday, 3 hours round journey today and 3 hours round journey tomorrow now...
Thats what you get for living in the sticks. Suprised it needs metalwork - must have done a good job on it. Where is the hospital - Perth? Take the petrol money out of his pocket money 😈 🙂
poor wee guy...
stookies are cool until it gets warmer and you have to watch your mates swimming from the side of the pool. am i right in thinking they can do virtually waterproof ones now?
hopefully the steelwork will mean his arm is nice and straight when it's all fixed. my left arm is comically wonky after breaking my elbow as a kid (whilst doing the worst tarzan impression ever).
surroundedbyhills - Member
I do remember one kid putting his arm in a school railing and have a friend break it on purpose when we were kids.
WTF! had they just watched Escape to Victory or something?
Mad - I believe he did it to avoid doing an exam.
Yes he shoul dget a light-weight plastic cast, in colour of choice 8)
Not sure what he has done yet to need op and steelwork, I guess it might be wires and brace as much as stuff inside.
TJ - yes our issue in sticks, equally the hospital (Larbert) has no idea how far Killin was - mrs_oab arrived this morning at 9am to be told they were running an hour late, and if she wanted to pop home and come back again....