26th December 2008

Boxing day. Now I know why they call it boxing day. You have so many boxes from toys lying around your house!! We did a quick clean up of the house and shipped all the other kids off to Antz’s dad’s house so they could go to the beach. We picked up my mum and then headed off to Wellington Hospital with our son Cassius. Antz carried him into the A & E department and we pretty much saw the nurse straight away. Mum went up to see baby while me and Antz waited with Cass. I took Cass in for an x ray and Antz went up to see baby. Mum came back and then we went in to see the doctor. Yep it was broken. He had a spiral fracture in his tibia. My poor son!! The nurse who saw us said that her son had a broken leg for 3 days before she went and got it checked. She said because there isn’t much muscle or tissue around that part so it doesn’t swell so it’s really hard to tell. Anyway we got him up to get it plastered and Antz met us there. They gave him the gas to suck on so it wouldn’t hurt. They and to admit him for the night to keep an eye on him to make sure he wasn’t too sore and that it didn’t swell. Mum said she would stay in with him so that was good. He hadn’t eaten all day so we went and got him some good old McDonalds for dinner which he had 1 bite out of his burger and that was him. We went and saw our daughter again before we left and said Mum will come and visit her before she goes to bed outside of normal visiting hours, they let us do that which was nice.