Growing Pains?

I happened to have no school last Tuesday (13 Mar) thus we had a chance to watch Lorax (plus a booboo outing with ting to MBS, ok not worth mentioning).  Weather was cooling that day and the kids did not shower till the late afternoon after we got back from the movie.  When dd returned to Eunos from work earlier than usual, the kids were just done with their shower.

Dd offered to bring the boys for soccer downstairs.  Of course fu didnt want to miss the chance for some action even though he just had his shower.  I didnt want to be a spoilsport too and thought, oh well... he could just shower again when he's back.  They deliberated for a while on which ball to use.  Fu initially wanted to use a soft rubber ball, with that, I allowed him to wear his sandals down.  However the soft rubber ball was eventually replaced by the actual soccer ball, knowing that that's a more suitable ball for outdoor kicking, I didnt stop him but reminded him to wear a pair of shoes instead so his toes wont get hurt.

After a while, ting got bored staying at home and announced that she too, wanted to go downstairs and do some kicking.  Mushroom kindly brought her down while I was secretly celebrating as I was harbouring thoughts for a run with perfect weather conditions.  I made my way down around 5 minutes after mushroom and ting went downstairs.  As I jogged passed the futsal court, I stretched my neck to check on them.  Strangely, I saw mushroom and fu seated at the steps.  They were no longer there when I passed the spot the following time.

I did a longer than usual jog, stopping when my stopwatch clocked 58minutes.  Got back feeling really satisfied as it was my first long jog in a long time albeit a really slow-paced one.  I was surprised to see both fu and ting still clad in the clothes they were on before they went for play.  Mil said they came back after a while and fu hurt his wrist, fil had already rubbed the ointment for him.  I took it lightly, thinking it's probably just one of those bumps, eager for a shower, I didnt really check his injury.  The kids requested to drop by mushroom's place the night and since it was still early, they happily trotted along with mushroom and family back to Punggol.

When we finally got back home, I sat down to check Fu's injury.   My, it felt really warm around the area, it looked worrying.  I got kindof annoyed at him that he didnt remind yeye that such injuries should be iced first not rubbed, something I reminded him after he hurt his left pinkie two weeks ago (see pic).  I wasnt sure if icing it then would help but still did so anyway hoping it will reduce the swelling.  While I was doing so, Fu asked, "why are you frowning mummy?"

I messaged ky the following morning as I left for school before they were up to check his wrist and that we should bring him to a doctor if it's still as bad as last night.  Later in the morning, mushroom messaged me that dd wanted to bring him to see a sinseh after his work ends at 4.30pm that day.  I got back around 2pm and checked on him.  I decided to save some of his misery, though he was not complaining, by bringing him to the famous 大声公 sinseh at Paya Lebar, a nickname my mum gave for the sinseh always speaks too loudly, then rather than wait for dd.  (sorry for long sentence!)

When we were called, Mrs 大声公 took a look and said we should go for an x-ray.  After some shuffling here and there, we ended up in KKH.

The x-ray reported:  Greenstick fracture at left distal radius.

Doctor at A&E mentioned there's also a small fracture at ulna, at the spot that is aligned to the fracture at radius.  As his pinkie was still a little swollen, I asked for his pinkie to be x-rayed too.  At that stage, I wasnt too surprised that his pinkie's fractured too though it had already started healing.

After the incident, many thoughts rang in my head.  I thought the incident wouldnt had happened if I disallowed him from playing since he just had his shower, I also thought if I insisted on the soft rubber ball, it wouldnt had happened too.  Dd was guilt-stricken, I guess he must had thought that it wouldnt had happened if he didnt play penalty shootout with fu being the goalkeeper.  I knew my self-blame was unfounded and for the same reason, I didnt blame dd.  It was to me a wake-up call that fu needs more calcium and should switch back to milk instead of milo for his before-sleep beverage.

So Fu's officially out of action for approximately 5 weeks.  Tomorrow his "half temporary cast" will be changed to a full cast.

Now I have to be mindful that injuries may not just be sprains.  Stupidly, "fracture" did not occur to me at all.  Perhaps it's due to my own experience.  In my humble almost 36 years of life, I have suffered many injuries, other than prolapsed discs, most of my injuries were sprains.  I need to add fracture in my cache memory.

I feel really proud that my boy did not cry a tear throughout his ordeal.  Get well soon my son!