Broken wrist
Kathleen broke her wrist yesterday evening when she fell off a swing at the local park.
We took her to the Bright Hospital and the doctor on call came in to take an x-ray. Her wrist was swollen and colored, so the x-ray just confirmed what we all thought.
She has to wear plaster for four weeks, which will include the first week back at school. There will be another x-ray on Friday just to make sure the bone is healing properly.
We don’t really know how she managed to fall off the swing. I guess it’s just one of those things that happens to kids.
It’s a shame Kathleen won’t be able to go swimming while she has the cast, as that’s been her main recreation on these hot summer days.
Dude and his friend Stephen went with me on my bike ride to Eurobin today. They wanted to go further, so we headed up the road towards the deer farm and they both swam in the Ovens River under the bridge.
We then rode a few kilometres along Wobonga Lane, up and down some hills, before heading back the way we’d come. Dude was riding Kathleen’s bike, which is a little big for him, but he did well to make it so far.
I'm a 41-year-old father of four working as a newspaper editor at Mount Gambier in South Australia.
