Thread: 7 years old and a broken leg over holidays

Years ago I broke my leg on the last day of school. The cast came off just before the next school year started.
He'll get over it.

Yeah, big blow for a 7 year old. Best thing to do, I think, is involve him in as much as you can of the family activities. Let him realise it's not the end of the World, to have this temporary disability. Life goes on. Bob

To be honest probably hardest for us!

At least one stroke of luck was we took his Xmas present (a Kawaski quad) down to the farm last weekend and gave him a few rides early.

Thank God we did as he has spent a year "saving" for half of it. He may have been paid inflated prices but he has worked hard doing home work, picking up the dog poo and doing any job he would normally not want to do.

Them's the breaks

Perhaps you could cheer him up by telling him that he is lucky he didn't break his leg in a remote place like Bendethera Valley in the late 1800s. He might have suffered the same fate as one of the George's fifteen children.

A memorable story about one of the 15 children raised on the property in Bendethera is about one of the boys in the George family who broke his leg further down the Deua River. The issue being the boy could not be transported safely home in an injured state such a great distance that Joseph George set the leg in some kind of a cast to heal, and built a shelter around the boy on location to aid his recovery.

Over the next two weeks, the family carted food and water to the boy from the homestead until he healed to a level where he could finally be moved safely back to the homestead.

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

Years ago I broke my leg on the last day of school. The cast came off just before the next school year started.
He'll get over it.

You haven't!

it's a pity he didn't get a hexalite cast.

I was immobilised for over 3 mths in a hip to toe hexalite cast back in 1980.

it was a wide mesh, hot rolled over foam plastic.

I used to swim in it every day......then blow it dry with a hair dryer.

surely they don't still use plaster of paris?

I'm out of touch.

Good luck with the healing.Im sure he will be OK.He will be riding that quad Im sure.
Andrew