We slipped up to Oxford today...

..all last week Ella's arm and shoulder had been grumbling away, aching, sporadically painful and just feeling different.

So chatting it through with the nurses on Friday, we all decided it would be a  good idea for us to go to Oxford today and see the consultant for peace of mind.

He (Henk Giele) was just so lovely and kind to Ella and spent ages with her.  Anyway several x rays later he said the following:

Everything is still healing really well, and the aching and pain is due to the existing bone in her lower arm having to work hard to "embrace" the new bone.  The shoulder pain is very, very tight tendons where Ella has been protecting her shoulder and carrying her arm around in a sling for so long.

So Ella has been sent home to continue wearing the sling when she is out and about, but the sling can come off when she is sitting around doing nothing in particular, then gradually as she gets used to that she can try moving round the house without the sling on.  When she is sitting still she can try using her right hand to do things like write, eat etc

So all very positive and reassuring, still no full on physio and the sling must continue to be a fashion feature for the time being - all that will be reviewed again in five weeks time.

On a final note he confirmed that Ella must definitely still not carry out the following activities:

1. CROWD SURFING  (Ella asked about this)
2. WASHING UP - or other similar domestic duties  (I asked about this)

Dad - this is crowd surfing!!!!!!