Meanwhile, the kids were entertaining themselves and Cathy began preparing her mexican feast for dinner. The boys rocked up about 2 hours later with Andy looking rather sheepish.Then the story emerges.....Andy was on his first mountain bike ride (on my bike) and was managing fine until a lapse in concentration where the front tyre slipped and he fell. It was a slow speed stack but in trying to save himself, Andy used his right forearm as a brace on a tree. After dusting himself off, a quick check that everything still worked, they rode the final 5km of the loop.
By the time he had got home, there was a plum sized lump on the back of his wrist. Cathy checked him over, gave the mostly all clear and instructed him to do the usually ice, rest... Didn't stop him from playing phase 10 that night, however it was rather painful in the morning so much so that he had to skip the planned long coastal run with Rob and Blair and visit the hospital!
Luckily the local hospital in Bega, was about 18km away and A & E was quiet on our arrival. It still took a few hours to get an x-ray and diagnosis....fracture of the distal radius extending to the joint!! After reading the x-ray report, the emergency department doctor said something to the effect of 'I'm not very good with bones so just have to ring someone!' A short time later, it was decided that the fracture was stable, a half cast would be put on and once back in Canberra Andy would need to go to the fracture clinic for a full cast. In the meantime, the rest of the holiday was going to be fairly subdued affair for Andy.
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