BREAK NUMBER FOUR
Hello my noo-noo,
I am so sorry that you have had another fracture baby. On Tuesday night you slipped in the kitchen at about 6:45pm and sustained a hairline fracture on your right tibia. We didn't know about it until your Dad phoned us at 9:15pm to say that you were in a cast again.
They had taken you to Entabeni, had the x-rays and you were home already. It took me back to the days when I did that with Mark. I didn't tell anyone when he broke until after he had been treated and brought home. It was so much easier and less traumatic to do it that way. Tammy put the old gutter splint from your last fracture onto your leg and Dr Stead agreed that it would be fine not to apply a new cast.
Patty and I popped in to see you on Wednesday night and you were quite subdued. When I asked you what that was on your leg you said, "Emmy boom. Ouch!"
By Thursday when you visited me wearing a gorgeous polka dot dress and matching cerise pink cast bandage, you wanted to 'wart' (walk) and to go down! Poor Tammy - she was exhausted.
When Gumpy took you to say hello you noticed mercurochrome all around his thumb nail. "Ow - Gumpy - sowwy" you said and kissed his thumb. It brought tears to his eyes. You are a really sweet child Em and we love you very much.
You always ask for a biscuit when you come to visit - by signing for one and saying the word at the same time - but you never actually eat a whole biscuit. You like to chew the cream off a lemon cream with your teeth or lick all the chocolate off the digestive biscuits. Then Mom gets the left-over bits!
You also love to help Gumpy sweep outside. You have your own little broom but, of course, you mess up all the leaves that Gumpy has swept into a pile!
You copy almost every word spoken, especially from Ceebee-bees on the television. Today the guy was making a paper dragon.
"Dragon." you copied. "Eyes. Tail. Paper. Blue. Purple." You sit and watch and repeat the words - its amazing.
When you left today I put you into your car seat and said, 'Bye, bye my noo-noo." You looked at me and said, "Bye, bye noo-noo" back!
Big hug little noo-noo.
I am so sorry that you have had another fracture baby. On Tuesday night you slipped in the kitchen at about 6:45pm and sustained a hairline fracture on your right tibia. We didn't know about it until your Dad phoned us at 9:15pm to say that you were in a cast again.
They had taken you to Entabeni, had the x-rays and you were home already. It took me back to the days when I did that with Mark. I didn't tell anyone when he broke until after he had been treated and brought home. It was so much easier and less traumatic to do it that way. Tammy put the old gutter splint from your last fracture onto your leg and Dr Stead agreed that it would be fine not to apply a new cast.
Patty and I popped in to see you on Wednesday night and you were quite subdued. When I asked you what that was on your leg you said, "Emmy boom. Ouch!"
When Gumpy took you to say hello you noticed mercurochrome all around his thumb nail. "Ow - Gumpy - sowwy" you said and kissed his thumb. It brought tears to his eyes. You are a really sweet child Em and we love you very much.
You always ask for a biscuit when you come to visit - by signing for one and saying the word at the same time - but you never actually eat a whole biscuit. You like to chew the cream off a lemon cream with your teeth or lick all the chocolate off the digestive biscuits. Then Mom gets the left-over bits!
You also love to help Gumpy sweep outside. You have your own little broom but, of course, you mess up all the leaves that Gumpy has swept into a pile!
You copy almost every word spoken, especially from Ceebee-bees on the television. Today the guy was making a paper dragon.
"Dragon." you copied. "Eyes. Tail. Paper. Blue. Purple." You sit and watch and repeat the words - its amazing.
When you left today I put you into your car seat and said, 'Bye, bye my noo-noo." You looked at me and said, "Bye, bye noo-noo" back!
Big hug little noo-noo.
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