And more wrists

Today Derek was going with Hannah and Stuart to the Athletics interclub at Masterton. Both Stuart and Hannah were tired yesterday so they got to go to bed early and Derek sneaked off to Speedway.

It was finally the opening night for Wellington. The rain had been spitting on and off all afternoon but it was still on.

He set off at 6pm and we were all in bed when he came home at 10.30pm saying he had a sore wrist.

Apparently he was helping Neville back off the trailor with his stockcar - there were lots of people around and he was directing Neville when to come off the trailor so no one got run over. Neville was off the trailor and Derek had turned and was walking away when Neville turned the wheel to go off on an angle rather than straight out, which put his front bumper further to the side, and which then caught Derek behind the knee.

Derek fell down but got up pretty quickly - didn't want to be run over by a 1700kg stockcar!!! His hand was a bit sore but he put ice on it and cantinued to help Neville during the night. When it came time to take the bonnet off and he couldn't pull the pins out, he realised it must be something a bit more serious.

At the end of racing he came home -had trouble getting his keys out of his pocket as the sore hand was his right hand, and also had trouble changing gear in the car.

He called in to say he was off to the hospital. I said I'd see him in about 4 hours ..... he was back within less than 1 hour. The nurse looked at it, put it into a cardboard splint, put a triangular bandage on it and told him he could go home and come back at 8.30am for an xray or he could stay until 8.30am.

Derek didn't get much sleep. It had become more and more painful. He even tired sleeping in the lazyboy after a while but that didn't help either.

This morning we were up at 6.30am getting Stuart ready for Interclub. Had to be at the Avalon Rugby Club by 8am. Eventually the bus arrived about 8.15 - a huge brand new Stage Coach bus. Very nice indeed.

They offered to take Hannah with them too. Quite happy to look after her for the day - would have been ok as Stuart would have been able to keep an eye on her as well, and he had enough lunch with him to feed her and a few others too. However we didn't have her uniform with us and they were about to drive off at that stage.

Off to the hospital we go and sit and wait and wait and wait. Eventually after 2 hours we see a Dr. Off to xray and then back to the waiting room. And wait a little bit more.

The Dr say's there's nothing broken. It looks like soft tissue damage and swelling. It should go down in a week or so and the pain should ease off after a couple of days. Take panadol and neuofen every 4 hours ..... If it's still sore at the end of the week go and see your GP.

So now we are home again and Derek is trying to have a sleep as he didn't get much last night.

At least it wasn't Stuart this time .... but I think we must qualify for a discount at the hospital or at least a shorter waiting time next time !!!!