Maybe I jinxed it.
Just when I proudly declared that there are no broken bones in our family, until Zaky broke the record, Nana has now joined the honor roll. Zzzzz.
She told me yday morning that she finally had time to go to the skatepark. Daddy Lim was on leave and brought her in the late afternoon. Zaky, with his broken pinky finger, opted to game (and not crouched his character) instead.
Then, the text came - Nana fell and injured her right ankle. I don't know how bad it was bcos I lost count of her ankle injuries from netball. I figured out that it must be bad enough for Daddy Lim to bring her for tui-na later the evening. He said that the swelling was quite bad. The sinseh said to ice and observe and if swelling is still bad the next day, to go and get an X-Ray.
At least we loaned free crutches from the sinseh.
I arrived home late yday night, after a long company dinner. Nana was in our bed bcos she couldn't climb up her loft bed. Zaky joined in the fun too. She was whimpering in pain. Poor thing. Daddy Lim then related how she fell, into the bowl shortly, after the session started. She couldn't get out and Daddy Lim also had to climb into the bowl to help her remove the skates, throw the skate out of the bowl and had her crawled out of the bowl slowly.
He said that it was another ordeal trying to get home. While the skatepark is literally a stone throw from home, it is a good 5 mins walk away. She couldn't walk; they managed to get a short hitch ride from the park's cleaning buggy ro the exit of the park, and then Daddy Lim had to "push" her home while she balance in one skate on her good foot.
Nana and Zaky took our bed last night. Daddy Lim took Zaky's bed while I slept on the floor. In the middle of the night, I was shocked awake. I felt something jumping, like the Chinese 僵尸. It went "thump, thump, thump". Ya, I woke up to find Nana hopping on one foot, trying to reach the aircon controller bcos it was too freaking warm. 吓死我了!
This morning, she luckily had HBL and was struggling so badly, just to get from the bed to the living room. Daddy Lim decided to send her to the NUH Children A&E as well. I was about to recommend a clinic with X-Ray for shorter waiting time but eventually asked them to proceed to A&E, just in case a cast is needed.
There was lesser crowd and the wait was shorter. No coffee and snack this time bcos got pai kah.
Daddy Lim texted at noon that it is another fracture. Her crack (that L shape) was even worse than Zaky's. I cannot help but wonder if it is her competitive spirit to want to win didi. Lol.
She was put in a soft cast.
She has to wait for 2 weeks for the swelling to go down before the doctor will probably put her in a hard cast. I didn't understand why the wait and Zaky said that bcos there is swelling and if the doctor puts a hard cast now, it would be too big when the swelling goes down. Ah, so clever. Somebody is speaking from experience. I had wanted to write on the cast, like what I see on TV. Looks like I have to wait 2 weeks. Hoho.
The timing is not great though. I will be in India next week for business and Nana would be going to my brother's place for staycation. Then again, maybe that should be the plan bcos she was only given MC for 1 day and had to go back to school after that. My brother's place would be so much nearer to school. After that, we have to figure out how Daddy Lim can send her to school everyday until the cast is out, which can take weeks!
The doctor says that full recovery will take up to 2 months. Popo is making a lot of noise bcos her norm has been disrupted. I am not sure how she is going to "wash" the cast each time Nana goes out and come home. I don't care.
One more achievement unlocked! Double fracture! Muahahaha.
Mummy Lim
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