Monday, January 18, 2010

Rowena's fractured arm



Poor Rowena Fractured her left hand (radius bone) yesterday. After lunch, the girls were playing in the room and as per Harvynna's report, Rowena said, 'you want me to show you how to climb without holding?" and that's what she did but felt down immediately. She must have tried to use her hand to soften her fall, and that would have caused the fracture.

She came out crying but I thought it was one of her usual falls. However, she was quite clingy and kept on clinging to me, and every few seconds, told me it was painful.Then she said, she wanted to sleep and I took her to my room to sleep. She was really holding on like a koala bear. She woke up after an hour and kept calling for me and complaining of the pain. So I knew something was definitely wrong, as she normally does not cry for long if she falls. So we thought its best to bring her to a hospital. Harvynna was being very sweet, and brought her pants for her as she was quite concerned for her sister.

In the hospital, she was really so tired and in pain, and looked so weak - so unlike the Rowena we all know. The doctor on call sent her for an x-ray and she yelled in pain during the x-ray. Harvnna and I waited outside and we could hear her screaming asking to go home. She could not place her hand flat as instructed due to the fracture.

Then we went back to the paed on call and he said that he could see a slight fracture on her radius and he called for the orthopaedic dr who had a look and immediately confirmed the fracture. He put a cast for her, but he said as she is very young, it should heal very fast. Rowena was quite traumatised after the xray, and was not keen to see another doctor. She was sniffling during the visit and kept requesting to go home. Somehow, after the cast, she felt a bit better but the pain comes back every now and then. Since she came home, she has been a real baby asking for sweets, drinks and me to be by her side all the time. She keeps asking me to remove the cast.

Poor gal, she is off school, but may send her back on Thursday, if she is better. Of course, Harvynna cant wait to tell everyone at school what happenned to her sister.

12 comments:

mommy to chumsy said...

awww...poor poor Rowena. i can imagine the pain :( Get well soon little princess.

jazzmint said...

oh poor thing. hope she's better now

Babysmooches said...

Hope Rowena feels better soon. Kisses to her.

mom2ashley said...

ai yo! poor thing!! speedy recovery Rowena!

eceteramommy said...

Aiyoyo.... por lil princess. I bet it would be awhile before she attempt another climbing without hands. Did the doc say how long befoe she could remove the cast? Speedy recovery.

Chinneeq said...

aiyo...poor girl. must be painful for her and most frightening for you as well. take care.

Nina @ BabyBoon said...

ohmigoodness. poor darling! she looks soo different frm the usually cheeky rowena alright. hope she'll recover well!

Borneo Belle said...

The photos say it all - she is only human after all ...in pain, and then back to her usual self. Get well soon, little Rowena, xx

Health Freak Mommy said...

Poor girl, I hope her hand is healing well. I hope this accident will deter her from performing dangerous stunts in future.
I was chuckling away reading about her conversation with the administrator :D. She is one very cheeky and bold cili padi!

zmm said...

Poor Rowena...

Btw, she has really grown up so much. It's like when I first started visiting your site, and saw Harvynna.

Get well soon Rowena.

Princess Mom said...

Thanks for all your kind words. Rowena has removed her cast and is back to normalcy

Mamapumpkin said...

Oh dear....I'm glad you had instincts to take her in to check. You can never tell with these kids. A friend of mine's son complained of stomach ache. She said go and poo. No poo. Later, still stomach ache. Friend said, aiya....eat so much rubbish la, serves you right. Later, still pain. Finally when they took him in, surgeon had to come in after midnight to do emergency operation!