Hi all!

Hi all!
I can't believe it's been so long.... Again!
The broken arm is healing nicely,  but had to be left displaced.  Surgery to straighten it out wouldn't have worked,  so we have had 6 months of nice healing. Another 6 to go before its completely sorted,  but there's no pain and Qasim can use his arm almost as much as before! 
The moral of this story for Qasim is that x box is not worth rushing through the kitchen for -  but it's a struggle to stop him trying to shoot off again. 
But yet again we have seen how fab our local hospital is,  and how great the staff are.  We even had a nurse nip to Costa for us and get us a cuppa tea because of the really long wait for the plaster room.
That's not to say we love hospitals,  but at least when we have to go we know the staff are all great. 
Unfortunately,  one of my fellow OI mums has had some recent problems at their local hospital with unresponsive (very probably over worked!)  staff,  but we are extremely thankful for our local nurses,  doctors at consultants. 
What's coming up?
Transition to high school (gulp!)  and leaving primary school.  I think both will be harder for me than Qasim! 

Oh dear!

Quick Update

It had to happen one day!
Normally I update when I realise it has been a long while since I posted anything, or we have had a fracture.
Well this time we have a fracture.
:-(
Qasim fell in the kitchen last weekend.  He fractured his upper arm bone -  called the humerous. 
There MUST be a link between that name and why they call it the funny bone!  But I've never had the time to look into it. 
Anyway -  fracture was right through the bone and displaced,  so not very nice. 
Lots of pain relief and almost a week later,  and Qasim can finally move without being in pain. 
This looks like the beginning of looking at  rod surgery in the arms -  something I really wanted to avoid.  But we'll see.
Here's hoping the next few weeks go smoothly,  and Qasim heals up nice and strong. 

No news is good news.....

They say no news is good news.
So this should be a warning that we have news.......
It has been such a long time, but since our last foot fracture waaaay back in about 2010, we have been pretty fracture free. Not including the odd finger here and there.
So today the sun is shining, the birds are singing and we get a letter from the childrens hospital that Qasim's vitamin D levels are low. So low as to be shocking.  (20-50 is deemed normal. Qasims is just over 7).
So we have the bright idea of doing some extra playing outside in the garden - soak up some of that sun and get that vitamin d boosted as naturally as possible while we wait for the gp to prescribe the supplements we need.

And thats when our 4 yr fracture free record is broken - quite literally.

It wasn't a fall or a trip. It wasn't anything dramatic like a football or a spare tennis ball flying around. One minute Qasim was fine, the next his foot gave way. Nobody near him, no knocks or bumps.

I guess this is the part of OI that we have forgotten about.
Sometimes there is just no reason to break. There is no sinister trauma or 'accident'.

My little man broke his foot just looking at the grass, listening to the birds and enjoying the sun.
So the rest of this beautiful sunny day was spent in hospital and having x rays done.
But at the end of the day we really have had an easy time the last few years.  We have seen our friends fracture over and over. Some have had fractures that just wont heal. Some have been stuck in hospital for weeks while dr's poke and prod and play guessing games, unable to give them a diagnosis.

So I guess one fracture in four years is really bloody brilliant!