Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Speech therapy and broken bone

Prisha had a fall from the slide in garden on Sunday. She was on the grass just thrown like a rag doll. I screamed and rushed to oick her up. We had no clue then how bad the fall was as the fall was bad. I was scared to move her as I did not know if she hurt her back, rib or scalp as she was crying bitterly. After a while I shouted at her to calm down to know where she was hurting. I made her walk to see if her body was fine.She walked and i was relieved wit tears still rolling down my eyes. I rushed with my friends home , where we made her lie down. She held her left hand tightly against her as that hurt her a lot. I did not want to take a chance. I rushed to the hospital with my friends as I did not want to take  a chance. The X' ray showed that fortunately she just escaped with  a hairline fracture near the wrist of her left hand. I was so relieved that I started to just loosen up and laughed out { the fall was such that I was fearing something really awful}. I cheered up and then we went to the trauma center and got her hand in a cast.Now she is in it for 4 weeks. She was very nervous. But inspite of the fear, pain, nervousness and wait at the hospitals, we had our speech therapy inputs.We talked about the pain, x'rays, nurse, doctor and the cast and sling everything that we could talk about. we related the whole experience to out friends at the speech therapy class and it was good to educate all the kids as it was not something that happens everyday. The teacher had planned something different for the speech therapy class that day, but that is what is different about Mrs. Hudlikar, she makes the speech therapy class situation related and prefers to take the class on what was on the mind of the kids which here was Prisha's broken arm.

4 comments:

  1. very sorry to know that prisha has broken her hand but i m sure she will handle this hurdle smiling.thanks a lot for ur input regaring my queries, i will keep all that in mind when i sit with rashi.
    simran

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  2. Ouch! I am glad it was nothing very serious, though it must have hurt very badly. What a scary moment for both mother and daughter! I hope she didn't break the hand that she uses to draw and write with!

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  3. Wow -- I'm sorry! But I'm also relieved that it wasn't worse, and not at all surprised that you turned it into a learning opportunity!

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  4. Thank God, it was not her right hand!It did hurt her a lot, but it is just a hairline fracture near the wrist and she needs to wear the cast for 4 weeks.But was tough for us both.

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