Week Following Removal of Cast

Progress with her walking was very slow. A couple of days after the cast came off, Niamh started to refuse to try and walk even with our support.

A week after the cast came off, on Tuesday 28th September, we called Lindsay at the Fracture Clinic to check about her slow progress and also the shaking. Lindsay said progress can sometimes be slow with some children but that the shaking did not seem related. She advised that we took Niamh to the GP.

That same afternoon, we were seen by our GP. The GP was not concerned about Niamh's shakiness. He thought it must be related to her fracture and anxiety with her walking. To be fair on the GP, she was hardly shaking when we were at the surgery.

Cast Off Day

Niamh's cast came off today. She was very pleased. We were trying to help her to walk a little. Progress is slow.

Shaky Shaky

It's around now we started to really notice Niamh's shaking. Alex thought he may have seen it for a while in the mornings when Niamh first woke up.

Nursery also mentioned that Niamh was quite shaky at times.

It was shaking of hands/arms, at first a little , but got worse over the next few weeks.

We were concerned about it but thought it was related to the fracture, anxiety.

Purple Plaster

Niamh saw Lyndsay at Fracture Clinic. She couldn't clearly see a frature but as Niamh was still sore to touch and not bearing weight it was decided to treat a Fracture. A beautiful Purple cast was expertly applied by Paul, to be kept for two weeks.

Niamh was happy enough with her cast and was shuffling around on her bum.

A & E - Birmingham Children's Hospital

Alex took Niamh to Accident and Emergency at Birmingham Children's Hospital on Sunday morning. They made an appointment for her at Fracture Clinic for Tuesday. Niamh had another crying, unsettled period this afternoon.

Chez Nous - Back Home

Niamh has been fine all week but today she started crying around lunchtime. We thought it was her leg (fed up with her cast) so we took it off. She was still complaining about her leg though and couldn't put any weight on it. She cried for a long part of the afternoon. We had no idea what was wrong.