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On the weekend I had the chance to do some August planning. Because July was so full with the school holidays, interstate family visiting, prepping for a teaching trimester at work, and of course a broken arm, it felt like it was over in a blink! From Sunday’s planning session August is another busy one, it will include: A solo travel weekend for me, where I visit to Melbourne for my brother's 50th, and to meet two friends' new babies. A solo parenting weekend for me while Al

This has been quite a week! It was already going to be busy before we added in two multi-hour medical appointments to diagnose and treat a broken arm! By yesterday I was exhausted, felt slightly sick, and had nothing left in the tank. I am grateful that its now the weekend. Here's a few updates from the week: I took O to a private fracture clinic yesterday morning to get his cast changed into what I hoped would be a waterproof cast. These waterproof casts are only available f

Yesterdayhttps://www.sophieinthesun.com/post/possibly-a-broken-arm I was worried that O’s arm continued to hurt after a fall last week I took O to the minor injury and illness clinic we have not too far away (it’s like a mini hospital but for non serious medical things). There was a lot of waiting (to be seen by the nurse, for the xray, then to see the doctor), but O was so well behaved the whole time. When he had his xray, I could see straight away there was a break of some

Unfortunately O's forearm/wrist is still sore. If we hold his arm straight out, it can bend and flex without pain which is good, but when we try to gently rotate it, it hurts him alot. (Its fine if his palm faces down, but not up). The arm looks fine from the outside Given today is day 5 of the injury, without any improvement to the rotating related pain (the bending of the wrist etc is fine now), its time to take him to the medical clinic and probably get an x-ray. He's been